Mount Shavano

Mount Shavano
The view north from the summit of Mt. Shavano, with Mt. Antero at center-right.
Elevation	14,229 ft (4,337 m)
Location	Chaffee County, Colorado, United States
Range	Rocky Mountains, Sawatch Range
Prominence	1,619 ft (493 m)
Coordinates	38°37′N, 106°14′W
Topo map	USGS Maysville 38106-E2 1:24,000
Easiest route	hike

Mount Shavano, with an altitude of 14,229 feet (4,337 meters), is one of the fourteeners of the U.S. State of Colorado. It is the 17th highest peak in Colorado and a near-neighbor to Tabeguache Peak. It lies just east of the Continental Divide and just west of the Arkansas River and the town of Salida in Chaffee County. Mount Shavano lies in the south-central part of the Sawatch Range, north of Mount Ouray and Mount Chipeta and south of the Collegiate Peaks (including Mount Princeton, Mount Harvard, and Mount Yale). Mount Shavano is famous for the Angel of Shavano, a snow formation in the image of an angel that emerges on the east face of the mountain during snow melt each spring.^[1]

Mount Shavano is located within the San Isabel National Forest and was named after Chief Shavano of the Ute Tribe.

References

^ Louis W. Dawson II, Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Volume 1, Blue Clover Press, 1994, ISBN 0-9628867-1-8

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