Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox mountain
Mount Blue Sky (formerly Mount Evans) is the highest peak in the Mount Evans Wilderness in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent Template:Convert fourteener is located Template:Convert southwest by south (bearing 214°) of Idaho Springs in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Clear Creek in Arapaho National Forest and the North Fork South Platte River in Pike National Forest.<ref name=NGS/><ref name=PB/><ref name=GNIS/>
The peak is one of the characteristic Front Range peaks, dominating the western skyline of the Great Plains along with Pikes Peak, Longs Peak, and nearby Mount Bierstadt. Mount Blue Sky can be seen from over Template:Convert to the east, and many miles in other directions. Mount Blue Sky dominates the Denver metropolitan area skyline, rising over Template:Convert above the area. Mount Blue Sky can be seen from points south of Castle Rock (Template:Convert south), as far north as Fort Collins (Template:Convert north), and from areas near Limon (Template:Convert east).
The mountain was previously named for the second governor of the Territory of Colorado, John Evans. However, due to Evans's involvement in the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, there were years of discussion over renaming Mount Evans. On September 15, 2023, the United States Board on Geographic Names officially changed the mountain's name to Mount Blue Sky.
GeographyEdit
Mount Blue Sky is the highest peak in a massif. The peak is Template:Convert west of Denver as the crow flies and approximately Template:Convert by road via Idaho Springs. Other peaks in the massif are:
- Mount Spalding (Template:Convert), Template:Convert northwest<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Gray Wolf Mountain (Template:Convert), Template:Convert north-northwest<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- The Sawtooth (Template:Convert), Template:Convert west<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Mount Bierstadt (Template:Convert), Template:Convert west-southwest<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Mount Warren (Template:Convert), Template:Convert north-northeast<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Rogers Peak (Template:Convert), Template:Convert northeast.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Mount Goliath (Template:Convert), Template:Convert northeast,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Epaulet Mountain (Template:Convert), Template:Convert southeast,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Rosalie Peak (Template:Convert), Template:Convert southeast,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref>
At least 7 deep glacial cirques cut into the massif. The cirques around Mount Blue Sky are the deepest cirques in the Colorado Rockies.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The bottoms of many of these contain tarns, the most notable being:
- Summit Lake at the head of Bear Creek, Template:Convert north
- the Chicago Lakes at the head of Chicago Creek, Template:Convert north
- Abyss Lake at the head of Lake Fork, Template:Convert west-southwest
The Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway consists of State Highway 103 from Idaho Springs, Colorado on I-70 about Template:Convert to Echo Lake, and Colorado 5 from Echo Lake Template:Convert, ending at a parking area and turnaround just below the summit. The latter has long been the highest paved road in North America (5th highest in the world) and is only open in the summer. Colorado 103 continues east from Echo Lake to Mestaa'ėhehe Pass, from which it connects, via Clear Creek County Road 103 and Jefferson County Road 66, to Bergen Park from which Colorado 74 leads to Evergreen Colorado.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Guanella Pass Scenic Byway passes within Template:Convert west of Mount Blue Sky, linking Georgetown and I-70 with Grant and US 285, Template:Convert to the south.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
A marked hiking trail roughly parallels the highway from Echo Lake to the summit and is rated class 2.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A class 3 side route of Mount Bierstadt climbs to the northeastern peak of The Sawtooth, from which an easier ridge leads to the summit of Mount Blue Sky.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Most of the Evans massif is now part of the Mount Evans Wilderness area in Arapaho National Forest and Pike National Forest. The exception is a narrow corridor along the highway from Echo Lake that is excluded from the wilderness.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Summit Lake Park and Echo Lake Park are part of the historic Denver Mountain Parks system.Template:Citation needed
HistoryEdit
At least 48 different tribes have ancestral ties to the area around the mountain.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Albert Bierstadt and his guide, William Newton Byers, approached the mountain along Chicago Creek from Idaho Springs in 1863. Bierstadt called it Mount Rosalie, initially naming the mountain after his wife-to-be Rosalie Osborne, spending several days painting sketches of the mountain from the Chicago Lakes before climbing to Summit Lake and onward to the summit. Bierstadt's sketch, Mountain Lake, accurately portrays the view of Mount Spalding over the Chicago Lakes. His painting A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie, is based on that and other sketches.<ref name="Bierstadt">Albert Bierstadt A Storm in the Rocky Mountains Template:Webarchive, 1866, in the American Art collection of the Brooklyn Museum.</ref><ref>Albert Bierstadt, Mountain Lake Template:Webarchive, Template:Convert, no date.</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
William Henry Jackson, attached to the Hayden Survey, visited the Chicago Lakes in 1873, where he took numerous photographs; the summit of the mountain is barely visible in several of these, peeking over the col between upper Chicago Lake and Summit Lake.<ref>William Henry Jackson, Chicago Lakes, Mount Rosalie, ID. Jackson, W.H. 1435 Template:Webarchive, ID. Jackson, W.H. 1436 Template:Webarchive ID. Jackson, W.H. 1437 Template:Webarchive U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library Template:Webarchive, 1873.</ref> The Hayden survey reported that Mount Rosalie was Template:Convert above sea level, measured by triangulation.<ref>W. H. Jackson, F. V. Hayden, 1873 Series, Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories for the years 1869 to 1875, Inclusive, Second Ed., Washington, 1875; page 63.</ref><ref>H. Gannett, F. V. Hayden, Lists of Elevations principally in That Portion of the United States West of the Mississippi River, Fourth Ed., Washington, 1877; page 125.</ref>
The history of the Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway is part of a larger story of the Denver Mountain Parks system. The City and County of Denver initiated the construction of a series of automobile "scenic loops" to allow Denverites to explore the mountains.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> One road circuit, Circle G, was to traverse the ridge to Mestaa'ėhehe Pass on to Echo Lake, culminate in a climb up Mount Blue Sky, and loop down to Idaho Springs. In order to achieve this goal, Denver Mountain Parks acquired a series of land parcels, including the acquisition of Bergen Park in 1915. The Bear Creek segment from the Genesee saddle to Bergen Park was finished in 1915, while the Denver Mountain Parks committee worked to make Mount Evans a National Park, going as far as getting support in Congress for the construction of a "cement road" to the mountain. The first mile was paid for by Denver with the understanding that the State Highway Commission would do the rest.<ref name="ReferenceA">Downing, William M. 1931 How Denver Acquired Her Celebrated Mountain Parks, a Condensed History of the Building of America's Most Unique Park System. In Municipal Facts. Volume 13, numbers 3–4 March–April.</ref> The Denver Mountain Parks committee was not without disagreement and setbacks, however. $30,000 was acquired early in 1916 to construct the Bergen Park to Mestaa'ėhehe Pass segment and all seemed to be flowing towards the goal of Mount Evans when the mayor of Denver, Robert W. Speer, appointed W.F.R. Mills as the Commissioner of Improvements, who summarily stopped the construction of the road, stating that "It is a road that starts nowhere, ends nowhere, and never gets there".<ref name="ReferenceA"/> After studying the issue, Mills later recanted and became a supporter of the park system, and the segment between Bergen Park and Mestaa'ėhehe Pass was constructed beginning in the spring of 1918. The next act was to get Mount Evans classified as a National Park, but 1916 was a tumultuous time between the National Park system and the U.S. Forest Service, who currently held claim to the mountain. Already in bitter struggle to prevent the formation of a National Park Service, Chief Forester Graves adamantly blocked the relinquishment of this area of National Forest, in exchange for Forest Service development of the area including the immediate construction of a road between Mestaa'ėhehe Pass and Echo Lake (Colorado).<ref name="ReferenceA"/> This joint exercise between the City and County of Denver, the U.S. Congress, the State Highway System, and now the Forest Service would be completed with help of a newly formed Federal Agency, the Bureau of Public Roads. In 1918, the Bureau of Public Roads provided the plan to construct Template:Convert of road from Soda Pass (later called Squaw Pass and now called Mestaa'ėhehe Pass) to Echo Lake beginning in 1919. By 1920, the road only went as far as Chief Mountain.<ref>"Car and Camera" 1920 The Mountain Parks. In Municipal Facts. Volume 3, numbers 3–4 March–April.</ref> By October 1, 1921, the Bureau of Public Roads had completed construction to Echo Lake.<ref>No Author 1921 Echo Lake Purchased. In Municipal Facts. Volume 4, numbers 9–10 September–October.</ref> The first survey for the road from Echo Lake to the peak of Mount Blue Sky was made in 1923, finishing the layout by January 1924 despite a flu outbreak in the camp, damaging windstorms, and nearly insurmountable environmental hardships.<ref name="ReferenceB">Sampson, Edith 1931 The Giant Highway. In Municipal Facts, Volume 14, numbers 3–4 March–April.</ref> Battling the unusual problems that come with high-altitude construction (steam shovels performing only half as effectively at high altitude, difficulty of hauling coal and water, horse suicide,<ref name="ReferenceB"/> etc.) the last Template:Convert were finally built by hand, being completed in 1930.<ref>Sampson, Edith 1930 Along the World's Highest Automobile Road. In Municipal Facts, Volume 13, numbers 9–10 September–October.</ref>
The ruins of the Crest House (1941–1942) sit nearby. Once containing both a restaurant and a gift shop, it burned down on September 1, 1979, and was not rebuilt, remaining as a place of contemplation today. The rock foundation and walls remain as a windbreak for mountain travelers, and the viewing platform is one of Colorado's premier scenic overlooks.
The mountain, along with Echo Lake, was designated as a historic site by the American Physical Society in 2017, commemorating the many cosmic-ray physics experiments conducted on the mountain between 1935 and 1960.<ref>Mount Evans and Echo Lake, Colorado, part of the APS Historic Sites Initiative; accessed Oct, 2019.</ref>
Mount Blue Sky also hosts the annual Mt. Evans Hill Climb, a Template:Convert bicycle race with a total of Template:Convert of climbing.
EnvironmentEdit
ClimateEdit
The atmospheric pressure on the summit is around 460 Torr (610 mbar), while a standard atmosphere (sea level) is 760 Torr (1013 mbar). At this pressure, many people suffer from altitude sickness.<ref name=Asmussen>Erling Asmussen and Frank C. Consolazio, The Circulation and Rest and Work on Mount Evans (4,300 M.), [ajplegacy.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/132/2/555.pdf American Journal of Physiology], Vol 132, No. 2 (Feb. 1941); page 555.</ref>
The climate on the summit of Mount Blue Sky can be extreme. The mean annual temperature on the summit is Template:Convert.<ref name=Permafrost>Jack D. Ives and Barry D. Fahey, Permafrost Occurrence in the Front Range, Colorado Rocky Mountains, U.S.A. Journal of Glaciology Template:Webarchive, Vol. 10, No. 58 (Spring 1971); pages 105-111.</ref> Temperatures often fall below Template:Convert, and occasionally fall as low as Template:Convert. The highest temperature recorded on the summit was Template:Convert, and below freezing temperatures may occur at any time of year. The maximum wind speed measured was Template:Convert, the average is from Template:Convert. When the wind speed is over Template:Convert, the wind is almost always from the west-southwest.<ref name=Stencel>Robert E. Stencel, Challenges and Opportunities in Operating a High-Altitude Site, Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy, Vol. 6, Springer, 2006; page 97 (for weather data, see sections 2 and 3.2).</ref> Template:Weather box
2012 tornadoEdit
At 2:51 pm on July 28, 2012, a weak, short-lived tornado touched down northeast of Mount Blue Sky's summit at an elevation estimated by the National Weather Service of Template:Convert above sea level. The tornado was the second highest recorded in the United States but did not cause any damage because it was above tree line.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
FloraEdit
The slopes of Mount Blue Sky include several distinct environments. Below Echo Lake, the montane forest is dominated by lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and in some areas, blue spruce (Picea pungens), with patches of quaking aspen. Echo Lake is high enough to be in the subalpine forest, where Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii), subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) and bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata) dominate.
At tree line, the trees are reduced to krummholz, battered and twisted by wind and frost. The bristlecone pine grove on the east slope of Mount Goliath (Template:Coord) contains at least one tree that sprouted in the year 403 AD. For many years, these were the oldest known trees in Colorado, but in 1992, trees dating to 442 BC were found in the southern Front Range and South Park.<ref>F. Craig Brunstein, David K. Yamaguchi, The Oldest Known Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pines (Pinus aristata Engelm.), Arctic and Alpine Research Template:Webarchive, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Aug. 1992); pages 253-256.</ref> The Mount Goliath Natural Area, jointly managed by the United States Forest Service and the Denver Botanic Gardens protects this grove of old trees.<ref>Maryann Gaug, 8 Mount Goliath Natural Area, Hiking Colorado: An Atlas of Colorado's Greatest Hiking Adventures, Morris Book Publishing, 2003; pages 61-66.</ref>
Above tree line, the landscape is mostly alpine tundra. In the lower tundra, dwarf willow (Salix herbacea) is common, along with a wide variety of flowering plants such as Rocky Mountain Columbine (Aquilegia saximontana) and various species of dwarf alpine sunflowers. Toward the summit, the vegetation shrinks until the largest plants are little more than compact green cushions in the cracks between the rocks. Here, Alpine Forget-me-not (Myosotis alpestris) plants with hundreds of blossoms occupy areas of only a few square centimeters and rise only centimeters above the soil surface.
The tundra around Summit Lake, particularly in Summit Lake Flats, the gently sloping area east of the lake, is frequently described as the southernmost area of arctic tundra in the world because it is water saturated and underlain by an extensive area of permafrost.
FaunaEdit
The top predators found in the area are mountain lions (Puma concolor), anywhere on the mountain, and black bears (Ursus americanus), generally below tree line. These prey on bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) and mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus),<ref>John Axelson, Region 2, Big Game Hunter's Guide to Colorado, Wilderness Adventure Press, 2008; page 245, 259.</ref> as well as one of the highest densities of yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) in the region. Above tree-line, pikas (Ochotona princeps) are common. Below tree line, elk (Cervus canadensis) and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) are common.
Among birds, the white-tailed ptarmigan (Lagopus leucurus) are present on the mountain, but so well camouflaged that they are difficult to see even when almost underfoot.<ref>Mary Taylor Gray, Herbert Clarke, White-Tailed Ptarmigan, The Guide to Colorado Birds, Westcliffe, 1998; page 74.</ref> Brown-capped rosy finches (Leucosticte australis), pipits and rock wrens (Salpinctes obsoletus) are also seen near the summit.<ref>Hugh E. Kingery, Mount Evans, Birding Colorado Morris Book Publishing, 2007; page 131.</ref>
GeologyEdit
Mount Blue Sky was carved from the rock of the Mount Evans Batholith, formed by an intrusion of magma into the Earth's crust about 1.4 billion years ago (in the Mesoproterozoic Era of the Precambrian Eon). Much of the rock is granodiorite, a close relative of granite, modified by later intrusions of quartz and pegmatite.<ref>Ralph L. Hopkins and Lindy B. Hopkins, Hike 7: Chicago Lakes – The Mount Evans Batholith, Hiking Colorado's Geology, The Mountaineers, Seattle, 2000; page 67.</ref>
The body of this batholith has been deeply cut by glacial cirques and canyons. Each of the nearby lakes, Summit Lake, the Chicago Lakes, Lincoln Lake and Abyss Lake are tarns located in cirques or glacial canyons surrounding Mount Blue Sky.<ref>Scott S. Warren, Mount Evans Wilderness Area, Exploring Colorado's Wild Areas, 2nd ed, Mountaineers Books, Seattle, 2002; page 91.</ref> Echo Lake was dammed by a lateral moraine of the glacier that formed Chicago Canyon. Prior to glaciation, Mount Blue Sky, Long's Peak and several other summits were monadnocks in an upland Peneplain. Glaciation has not entirely destroyed the ancient Flattop Peneplain, named for Flattop Mountain in Grand County. The peaks of these mountains are all remnant features of this peneplain.<ref>Willis T. Lee, Peneplains of the Front Range and Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado United States Geological Survey Bulletin 730; page 15.</ref>
Scientific researchEdit
The easy access to the summit provided by the Mount Blue Sky Highway has made it a popular location for scientific research. Arthur H. Compton conducted pioneering research on cosmic rays on the mountain in 1931, shortly after the road to the summit was completed. The University of Denver built a pair of A-frame buildings on the summit to house cosmic-ray researchers.<ref>Ben Fogelberg and Steve Grinstead, Hike 25: Mount Evans – A Peak with a Past, Walking into Colorado's Past, Westcliffe, Englewood Colo; page 119.</ref><ref>Arthur H. Compton, Chapter 19, The Cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton, Knopf, 1968; page 206.</ref> By the 1950s, Mount Blue Sky, the Aiguille du Midi, the Pic du Midi and the Jungfrau were considered the premier locations for high-altitude physics experiments.<ref>Val L. Fitch, The τ-θ puzzle: an experimentalist's perspective, Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s Cambridge University Press, 1989; page 460.</ref>
The first accurate measurement of the lifetime of the muon (originally called the mesotron) by Bruno Rossi in 1939, used sites at Mount Blue Sky, Echo Lake, Denver and Chicago. This experiment verified the reality of time dilation, one of the key predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity.<ref>Laurie M. Brown, Abraham Pais, Brian Pippard, Section 5.5, 20th Century Physics, AIP Press, 1995; Pages 394–399.</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
In the summer of 1948, MIT, Cornell, Princeton, NYU, Michigan, Chicago, Denver conducted an intensive experimental program on the mountain and at Echo Lake. Bruno Rossi and Giuseppe Cocconi were among those involved.<ref>Johnny Florea, Cosmic Ray Research: Seven Colleges Join to Study Nature's Mightiest Force (photoessay), Life, Vol. 25, No. 19 (Nov. 8, 1948); pages 119–125.</ref>
In 1965, the Midwestern Universities Research Association began doing high-energy physics experiments on the summit using cosmic rays to explore energies above those accessible with the most powerful particle accelerators of the day. The first experiments were conducted in a semi-trailer, and then in 1966, a temporary laboratory building was erected near the summit. This building was moved to Echo Lake that fall, where research continued until 1972.<ref>Lawrence W. Jones, The History, Highlights and Outcome of the Michigan – Wisconsin Echo Lake Cosmic Ray Program, 1965–1972: An Informal Review, UM-HE 73-9, University of Michigan, February 1973.</ref>
The University of Denver erected the Template:Convert Ritchey–Chrétien telescope in its summit laboratory in 1972. This was used to observe comets Kohoutek and Halley in 1972 and 1986. In 1996, the university finished construction on the Meyer–Womble Observatory, near the site of the A-frame laboratory buildings. At Template:Convert this was, from 1972 to 1999, the world's highest optical observatory.<ref name=Stencel /> It is now the third-highest.
Mount Blue Sky has also been the site of significant research in the life sciences. In 1940, for example, it was the site of a significant study of high-altitude physiology.<ref name=Asmussen /> Pioneering studies on the effects of altitude training on track athletes were conducted on Mount Blue Sky in 1966.<ref>Elsworth Buskirk Template:Webarchive, from the Living History of Physiology Template:Webarchive web site of the American Physiological Society, 2008.</ref>
Mount Evans Road is also noteworthy as a high-altitude vehicle testing venue for auto manufacturers.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> With full visibility on a public road, most manufacturers' road test teams tend to conceal their designs with various creative styles of camouflage, e.g. wild zebra paint motif, possibly paired with other temporary body coverings.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
NameEdit
Mount Evans was named after the second territorial Governor of Colorado, John Evans. Commissions at Northwestern University and the University of Denver – both universities that were established by Evans himself – determined that Evans was among those responsible for the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, which resulted in the death of between 150 and 500 Cheyenne and Arapaho people, most of whom were elderly, women, and children.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Attempts were made to change the name of the mountain due to the history and actions of Governor Evans.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2020, 43rd Colorado Governor Jared Polis established The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board, which included Mount Evans for a possible renaming.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The new name was proposed by the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. According to the proposal, the name "signifies the Arapaho as they were known as the Blue Sky People and the Cheyenne who have an annual ceremony of renewal of life called Blue Sky".<ref>Colorado peak named after former governor linked to a massacre of Indigenous people has been renamed Mount Blue Sky</ref> In March 2022, Clear Creek County approved a proposal to rename the peak to Mount Blue Sky, pending state and federal review.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Five other names were also submitted: Mount Rosalie, Mount Soule (after Silas Soule), Mount Sisty, Mount Evans (after Anne Evans), and Mount Cheyenne Arapaho.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On November 17, 2022, the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory recommended unanimously that the name be changed to Mount Blue Sky.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On March 3, 2023, Governor Jared Polis formally asked the United States Board on Geographic Names to rename the mountain to Mount Blue Sky.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The board delayed any decision after the Northern Cheyenne Tribe requested a consultation, with tribal administrator William F. Walks Along saying the proposed name "conflicted with his nation’s use of the term in their confidential sacred ceremonies."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On September 15, 2023, the BGN voted to change the name, becoming effective immediately.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Despite the peak's name change, the efforts to make a corresponding name change for the Mount Evans Wilderness Area still require congressional approval.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On October 16, 2023, Joe Neguse (Colorado-2 Democrat) introduced H.R. 5962 to the 118th Congress, titled "To redesignate the Mount Evans Wilderness as the 'Mount Blue Sky Wilderness', and for other purposes".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
See alsoEdit
- List of mountain peaks of North America
- Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway — Colorado State Highway 5
- Mount Evans Hill Climb
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
- Mount Blue Sky on 14ers.com
- Mount Blue Sky on Peakbagger.com
- Mount Blue Sky on Distantpeak.com
- Mount Blue Sky on Summitpost
- Tim's Guide to Mount Blue Sky
- US Forest Service, Mount Blue Sky Recreation Area & Scenic Byway
Template:Mountains of Colorado Template:NA highest Template:Colorado highest Template:Colorado Fourteeners Template:US state navigation box Template:Authority control