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Castle Peak

Climbing History (Castle Peak)



Title: First Climbed

Entered by: gpeoples

Added: 5/14/2010, Last Updated: 5/14/2010

Sources: A Climbing Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Walter R.Borneman and Lyndon J. Lampert, Third Addition, Published 1994.

Castle Peak was first climbed in 1873 by the Hayden Survey.

Name History (Castle Peak)



Title: Naming of Castle Peak

Entered by: 14erFred

Added: 5/14/2010, Last Updated: 5/14/2010

Sources: Hart, J.L.J. (1977). Fourteen thousand feet: A history of the naming and early ascents of the high Colorado peaks (Second Edition). Denver, CO: The Colorado Mountain Club.

The Hayden U.S. Government Survey of 1874 named this peak for the striking towers along its ridges.