Misplaced Pages

Kletting Peak

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Mountain in Summit County, Utah, United States

Kletting Peak
South aspect of Kletting Peak
(A-1 Peak to the right)
Highest point
Elevation12,060 feet (3,676 m) NAVD 88
Prominence495 ft (151 m)
ListingUtah 12,000-foot Peaks
Coordinates40°45′47″N 110°51′23″W / 40.7630024°N 110.8562829°W / 40.7630024; -110.8562829
Geography
Kletting Peak is located in UtahKletting PeakKletting
PeakSummit County, Utah, U.S.
Parent rangeUinta Range
Topo mapUSGS Christmas Meadows
Climbing
Easiest routeScramble (class 2 or better)

Kletting Peak is a mountain in Summit County, Utah, named in 1964 for Utah architect Richard K.A. Kletting (1858-1943). It is in the High Uintas Wilderness and the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.

The summit is at 12,060 feet (3,676 m), has 495 feet (151 m) of clean prominence, and is relatively easy overland scramble (class 2 or better). It ranks 101st on a list of Utah mountains having more than 200 feet of prominence.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Kletting Peak, Utah". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  2. ^ "Utah 12,000-foot Peaks". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
  3. "Kletting Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  4. Gold, Troy W. (1994), "Kletting, Richard Karl August", in Powell, Allan Kent (ed.), Utah History Encyclopedia, Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, ISBN 0874804256
  5. "Kletting Peak". SummitPost.org. Retrieved April 18, 2016.

External links


Stub icon

This article about a location in Utah is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: