14er Patches

Little Bear is located on the Sierra Blanca Massif 8.8 miles of the Town of Blanca. This mountain is composed of pre-Cambrian granite estimated to be approximately 1.8 billion years old. Elevation 14,037 feet.

"La Plata" is Spanish for "The Silver", a reference to the many silver deposits in the area. Elevation 14,336 feet.

The mountain is named in honor of frontiersman Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson. The Crestones are a cluster of high summits in the Sangre de Cristo Range. Elevation 14,165 feet.

Humboldt Peak is located near Westcliffe and was named in honor of German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Elevation 14,064 feet.

Handies Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit of the San Juan Mountains range in the Rocky Mountains. Elevation 14,048 feet.

Botanist Charles C. Parry made the first recorded ascent of the summit in 1861 and named the peak in honor of his botanist colleague Asa Gray. Elevation 14,270 feet.

Crestone Peak rises 7,000 feet above the east side of the San Luis Valley. It shares its name with the nearby Crestone Needle, another fourteener of the Crestones. Elevation 14,294 feet.

Above the South Colony Lakes are the big walls of the Crestone Needle and the wild gendarmes of the ridge to Crestone Peak. Crestone is Spanish for 'cockscomb.' Elevation 14,197 feet.