Mount Bierstadt is a mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The fourteener is located in the Mount Evans Wilderness of Pike National Forest, south by east (bearing 171°) of the Town of Georgetown in Clear Creek County.
Once at the summit, a popular option is to continue the hike to nearby Mount Blue Sky along a ridge known as The Sawtooth, an intermediate-level hike that overlooks Abyss Lake, which occupies the bottom of the valley separating Bierstadt and Blue Sky. This route is rated as class 3.
Albert Bierstadt's painting A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie is based on sketches he made during his 1863 visit to the area. That painting shows either Mount Spalding or Mount Blue Sky (it is ambiguous) from the Chicago Lakes, north-northwest, but Bierstadt and his guide William Byers climbed onward to the summit of either Blue Sky or Spalding (the account is ambiguous).
Climate
See also
- List of mountain peaks of Colorado
- List of Colorado fourteeners
References
External links
- Mount Bierstadt on Distantpeak.com
- Mount Bierstadt on TrailCentral.com
- GPS Tracks from Guanella Pass on SelectHikes.com
- Mount Bierstadt Trail (#711) on Forest Service website