Mount Sopris ( 12, 953 ft ) sits at the northwest end of the range and dominates the skyline of the lower Roaring Fork Valley and the town of Carbondale, serving as an unofficial symbol of the area.

It lies on the long ridge connecting the heart of the Elk Mountains with Mount Sopris to the northwest.

Mount Sopris is a high, twin-summitted mountain peak located at the northwest end of the Elk Mountains in western Colorado in the United States.

Mount Sopris is notable for having two summits, East Sopris and West Sopris, that are one-half mile ( 0. 8 km ) apart and have exactly the same elevation of 12, 965 feet.

In 2011 J. P. McDaniels petitioned to rename East Sopris " Mount John Denver " after the Colorado singer.

Mount Sopris dominates the skyline of Carbondale and the lower Roaring Fork Valley, serving as an unofficial symbol of the area.

* Live Mount Sopris webcam.

* Mount Sopris on Summitpost, an excellent article with many further links

* Rock Glacier on Mount Sopris at NASA Earth Observatory

Mount Sopris and the Roaring Fork River serve as symbols of the Roaring Fork Valley.

Mount Sopris dominates the lower ( northwest ) end of the valley and serves as an unofficial symbol of the region.

The highway roughly follows the Roaring Fork River along its entire route, offering scenic views of Mount Sopris in the lower end of the valley.

Mount Katahdin is both the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, which extends southerly to Springer Mountain, Georgia, and the southern terminus of the new International Appalachian Trail which, when complete, will run to Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Aoraki / Mount Cook will be the starting point of the Alps to Ocean Cycle Trail to Oamaru, the trail to be constructed in the following years after approval in 2010 by the New Zealand Cycle Trail project.

The White Mountain National Forest links the Vermont and Maine portions of the Appalachian Trail, and boasts the Mount Washington Auto Road, where visitors may drive to the top of Mount Washington.

Truman Trail and Harry's Ridge in the Mount St. Helens region are named after him.

* The John Muir Trail --- running 212 miles ( 341 km ) to Mount Whitney

For example, using what became known as the Siskiyou Trail, Hudson's Bay Company trappers were the first non-natives to explore the southern Cascades in the 1820s and 1830s, establishing trails which passed near Crater Lake, Mount McLoughlin, Medicine Lake Volcano, Mount Shasta, and Lassen Peak.

Mount Shasta from Siskiyou Trail.

The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, generally known as the Appalachian Trail or simply the AT, is a marked hiking trail in the eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine.

* Hiking areas include Crabtree Falls, Sharp Top, Candlers Mountain to Camp Hydaway, Flat Top, Appalachian Trail, Blackwater Creek Natural Area, Mount Pleasant National Scenic Area, Holliday Lake, Apple Orchard Trail, Otter Creek Trail

* Mount McConnel National Recreation Trail

View from Mount Holyoke south ledges along the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail.

In 2000, Mount Holyoke was included in a study by the National Park Service for the designation of a new National Scenic Trail now tentatively called the New England National Scenic Trail, which would include the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail in Massachusetts and the Mattabesett Trail and Metacomet Trail trails in Connecticut.

Many walk trails can be found in the park including the Len Otte Nature Trail, Tagon Coastal Trail, Boolenup Walk Trail and walks up both Mount Ragged and Mount Arid.

He then ascends Mount Purgatory with them and stays with Dante in the Earthly Paradise at the mountain's summit, after Virgil has returned to Limbo.

Duryea Drive, which ascends Mount Penn in a series of switchbacks, was a testing place for early automobiles and was named for Charles Duryea.

From the floor of Kern Canyon, the trail ascends again over to the summit of Mount Whitney.

The Silk Museum is situated to the east of the city, while on the western side of town the Komagatake Ropeway ( gondola ) ascends Mount Komagatake in the Central Alps.

From Mount Pleasant the trail ascends steadily to its junction with the Ken Ausburn Track, which is located on the walker's left ( east side of the trail ).

From here ascends a steep hill before levelling out to Mount Keira Road.

After the last boss is beaten, the gods prove true to their word and the last image is the hero's body becoming a being of light as he ascends to Mount Olympus.

It is located at the southern base of Mount Kearsarge, at the entrance to an auto road that ascends to within of the summit.

The Gorge Brook Trail ascends Mount Moosilauke from the Dartmouth College Ravine Lodge.

* E5: Wilderness Cliffs Trail-Trail begins at Boulder Junction on the Wilderness Creek mainline and ascends to a cliff-top view of Squak Mountain and soon after another view of Mount Rainier.

A dragon ascends towards the heavens with Mount Fuji in the background in this 1897 ukiyo-e print from Ogata Gekkō's Views of Mount Fuji.

The company quickly grew into the largest industrial site in the Middle East, and in 1934 built a second plant on the southwest shore, in the Mount Sodom area, south of the ' Lashon ' region of the Dead Sea.

Central and Western Kenya is characterized by the Kenyan Rift Valley home to two of Africa's highest mountains, Mount Kenya and Mount Elgon. The Kakamega Forest in western Kenya is relic of an East African rainforest.

Mount Lebanon and its coastal plane became part of the Diocese of the East, divided to provinces of Phoenice and Phoenice Lebanensis ( which also extended over large parts of Syria ).

* Minerva is a supercomputer at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City on the Upper East Side.

Mountain ranges are found along the southern borders, such as the Caucasus ( containing Mount Elbrus, which at is the highest point in both Russia and Europe ) and the Altai ( containing Mount Belukha, which at the is the highest point of Siberia outside of the Russian Far East ); and in the eastern parts, such as the Verkhoyansk Range or the volcanoes of Kamchatka Peninsula ( containing Klyuchevskaya Sopka, which at the is the highest active volcano in Eurasia as well as the highest point of Asian Russia ).

St. Kitts has three distinct groups of volcanic peaks: the North West or Mount Misery Range ; the Middle or Verchilds Range and the South East or Olivees Range.

The Wrangell Volcanoes are older, lie in the East, and include Mount Blackburn, Mount Bona, Mount Churchill, Mount Drum, Mount Gordon, Mount Jarvis, Mount Sanford, and Mount Wrangell.

* April 5 – April 12 – Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies blows its top explosively during an eruption, killing upwards of 92, 000 and propelling thousands of tons of aerosols ( Sulfide gas compounds ) into the upper atmosphere ( stratosphere ).

East Malaysia contains the five highest mountains in Malaysia – the highest being Mount Kinabalu at 4, 095 m, which is also the highest mountain in Borneo and the 10th highest mountain peak in Southeast Asia.

Llanberis at the foot of Mount Snowdon can be reached via the A4086 which heads East out of the town to Capel Curig.

Traveling east from downtown, Route 66 and the railroad run in parallel toward East Flagstaff ( and beyond ), at the base of Mount Elden.

Written by in 1816 — the " Year Without Summer " caused by atmospheric volcanic ash from the Mount Tambora eruption in the Dutch East Indies – " Darkness " depicts a world grown dark and cold because the sun has been extinguished.

A ski hut was erected at Mount Baw Baw, just 120 km East of Melbourne, in 1945 and a ski rope tow added in 1955.

During the 1967 Six-Day War Israel captured the Temple Mount together with all of East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan, who had controlled it since 1948.

East of and joined to the triple gate passageway is a large vaulted area, supporting the southeastern corner of the Temple Mount platform – which is substantially above the bedrock at this point – the vaulted chambers here are popularly referred to as King Solomon's Stables.

An editorial in the newspaper Haaretz accused the rabbis of ' knowingly and irresponsibly bringing a burning torch closer to the most flammable hill in the Middle East ,' and noted that rabbinical consensus in both the Haredi and the Religious Zionist worlds forbids Jews from entering the Temple Mount.