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The 1st peak I photographed on the 1st night of my 14ers project.
Again, with all the clouds, scouting this peak was really challenging. It took a bit of driving around in the dark. Thankfully I found this open field just to the south east of the peak so it gave me a really nice view of the mountain with Andromeda and the Cygnus region.
Mt. Princeton Highest point 14,204 ft (4327.25 m)
Mount Princeton is a high and prominent mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,204 feet (4,329 m) fourteener is located in San Isabel National Forest, 7.8 miles (12.6 km) southwest of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The mountain was named in honor of Princeton University.
WHILE NOT ONE OF THE HIGHEST PEAKS OF THE SAWATCH RANGE, MOUNT PRINCETON IS ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC, ABRUPTLY RISING NEARLY 7,000 FEET ABOVE THE ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY IN ONLY 6 MILES.
The first recorded ascent was on July 17, 1877, at 12:30 pm by William Libbey of Princeton University. It is likely that various miners had climbed the peak earlier. The name Mount Princeton was in use as early as 1873, and the peak was most likely named by Henry Gannett, a Harvard graduate and chief topographer in a government survey led by George M. Wheeler
