Mount Sneffels is a fourteen thousand foot mountain peak in the
U.S. state of Colorado
.
It is
located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness
of the northern San
Juan Mountains, in Ouray County
approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of the town of
Ouray
. The
summit of Mount Sneffels is the
highest point in Ouray County.
The primary route to the summit follows a creek bed up from
Yankee Boy Basin. A secondary route
follows a ridge line to the summit from the saddle of
Blue Lakes Pass.
Mount
Sneffels was named after the volcano Snæfell
, which is
located on the tip of the Snæfellsnes peninsula in Iceland
.
That
mountain and its glacier, Snæfellsjökull
, which caps the crater like a convex lens, were
featured in the Jules Verne novel A Journey to the Center of
the Earth. An area on the western flank of Mount
Sneffels gives the appearance of
volcanic
crater.
Seen from
the Dallas
Divide
on State
Highway 62, Mount Sneffels is one of the most photographed
mountains in Colorado.
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