Mt Sneffels Summit Markers to commemorate your hike.
A stunning mountain,Mount Sneffels is listed as being 14,1500 feet high. It is the 27th highest 14er in Colorado. It is located in the Mount Sneffels Wildernesss of the northern San Juan Mountainss, in Ouray County, approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of the town of Ouray. The summitt of Mount Sneffels is the highest point in Ouray County. Mount Sneffels is notable for its great vertical relief, as it rises 7,200 feet above the town of Ridgway, Coloradoo 6 miles to the northeast.
The primary route to the summit follows a creek bed up from Yankee Boy Basinn. 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 Vern nove A Journey to the Center of the Earth.