MOUNT COLDEN

Elevation:

Feet: 5114
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Rank:

2nd High Peak
2nd Adirondack Peak

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History:

Namesake: Mount Colden

Mount Colden Timeline

1837:

1920: On June 13th, 1920, George Marshall, Bob Marshall, and Herbert Clark, the three men who were the first to climb all 46 High Peaks, made their ascent of Mount Colden. It was only their eleventh High Peak and would wind up being their sixth of ten High Peaks that they would climb that year.
- Marshall, Bob, George Marshall, and Phil Brown. Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks: Writings of a Pioneering Peak-bagger, Pond-hopper and Wilderness Preservationist. Lost Pond Press. 2006.

1955: In 1955, the USGS performed a survey using standard (English) units [i.e. feet], identifying Mount Haystack as 4714 feet tall making it the eleventh tallest mountain in the Adirondacks.

1978: In 1978, the USGS performed a survey using metric units [i.e. meters], identifying Mount Colden as 4714 feet tall. It confirmed the 1955 USGS standard unit survey measurement of Mount Colden when converted and did not change the height rank of the foot as the eleventh tallest peak of the Adirondacks.