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    Mount Blue Sky (formerly Mount Evans) is the highest peak in the Mount Evans Wilderness in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The...
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  • Alberta, Canada Mount Blue Sky, a mountain in Colorado, U.S. formerly called Mount Evans Blue skies research (also called blue sky science), scientific...
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    maintaining blue color in the evening sky. There is essentially no direct sunlight under an overcast sky, so all light is then diffuse sky radiation. The...
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    recorded summit of the mountain in 1863. Mount Bierstadt is located 1.4 miles (2.2 km) west by south of Mount Blue Sky and 43.8 miles (70.5 km) west by south...
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    Colorado, and rises nearly 10,000 feet above the Great Plains. Longs Peak, Mount Blue Sky, and Pikes Peak are its most prominent peaks, visible from the Interstate...
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    Geodetic Survey. Retrieved 3 March 2016. "Mount Blue Sky". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 3 March 2016. "Mount Blue Sky". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 3 March 2016....
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  • feet (4,310 m) of elevation near the 14,271-foot (4,350 m) summit of Mount Blue Sky, making it the highest paved road in North America (beating the 14,115-foot...
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    area is named after Mount Blue Sky's former name, Mount Evans The first efforts to protect the Mount Evans (now known as Mount Blue Sky) area involved the...
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    Geodetic Survey. Retrieved 3 March 2016. "Mount Blue Sky". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 3 March 2016. "Mount Blue Sky". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 3 March 2016....
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  • The Bob Cook Memorial Mount Evans Hill Climb or Mount Evans Hill Climb is a bicycle race situated on Mount Blue Sky near Idaho Springs, Colorado. Begun...
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    Mountains. Mount Antero is the highest peak of the Southern Sawatch Range. Mount Blue Sky is the highest peak of the Northern Front Range. Mount Wilson is...
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    operated by the University of Denver. It is located near the summit of Mount Blue Sky in the Arapaho National Forest approximately 60 kilometers (37 mi) west...
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    The Sawtooth is a jagged arête joining Mount Bierstadt to (eventually) Mount Blue Sky in the Front Range of central Colorado. The three points along this...
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    upper terminus at 14,140 feet (4,310 m) elevation near the summit of Mount Blue Sky and its lower terminus at 10,650 feet (3,246 m) elevation at State Highway...
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    locations in Colorado. Soule was among the proposed names when Mount Evans was renamed Mount Blue Sky. A creek in Chaffee County (whose name previously included...
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  • Mount Evans or Mountevans may refer to: Mount Evans, the former name of a peak in Colorado now named Mount Blue Sky Mount Evans (Alberta), a summit Mount...
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    fourteener in Colorado. It has nearly the same elevation as Castle Peak and Mount Blue Sky. It lies in Summit County and within the White River National Forest...
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    Mountains. The summit of Mount Antero is the highest point of the southern Sawatch Range. The summit elevation of Mount Blue Sky includes a vertical offset...
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    Rocky Mountains where he was taken up to the Chicago Lakes beneath Mount Blue Sky. The painting is named after Bierstadt's mistress and, at the time,...
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  • misinterpreted by James Hugh Pruett in a 1946 Sky and Telescope article, leading to the calendrical definition of “blue moon” that is now most commonly used,...
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    Mountains. Notable peaks of the Rocky Mountains include Longs Peak, Mount Blue Sky, Pikes Peak, and the Spanish Peaks near Walsenburg, in southern Colorado...
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  • stand in contrast to the higher peaks of the Front Range to the north (Mount Blue Sky) and south (Pikes Peak). The Rampart Range is a anticlinal horst raised...
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    views of the surrounding Rockies, including the nearby peaks of Mount Blue Sky and Mount Bierstadt. The pass is easily traversable by most vehicles, never...
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    The Mount Evans Crest House is a building, now in ruins, located at the summit of Mount Blue Sky in Colorado. It is notable for both its significant architectural...
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    Mountains. The summit of Mount Antero is the highest point of the southern Sawatch Range. The summit elevation of Mount Blue Sky includes a vertical offset...
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    landforms visible from Castle Rock include Dawson Butte, Devils Head, Mount Blue Sky, and Pikes Peak. East Plum Creek, a stream within the South Platte River...
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    Colorado in the United States. It begins as a small creek up in the Mount Blue Sky Wilderness in Summit Lake and makes its way through Evergreen, CO, Kittredge...
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    "Mount Blue Sky". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. "Mount Blue Sky". Peakbagger...
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    areas throughout the United States, including Hueco Tanks in Texas, Mount Blue Sky in Colorado, The Appalachian Mountains in The Eastern United States...
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    Montana, US Summit Lake cirque, and others on Mount Blue Sky, Colorado, US Great Basin and others on Mount Katahdin, Maine, US Great Gulf, New Hampshire...
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