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Kit Carson Peak is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. Officially designated Kit Carson Mountain, the fourteener is located east by south (bearing 102°) of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, United States.〔〔〔 The name Kit Carson Mountain is used for both the massif with three summits (Columbia Point, Kit Carson Peak and Challenger Point), or to describe the main summit only. 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, comprising Crestone Peak, Crestone Needle, Kit Carson Peak, Challenger Point, Humboldt Peak, and Columbia Point. They are usually accessed from common trailheads. ==Recent history== In 1995, the Baca Ranch, which included Kit Carson Peak, was purchased for $15 million by a group that included Yale University. By 1997, one of the partners in the group, rancher Gary Boyce, had funded a signature drive that put two constitutional amendments on Colorado's 1998 ballot, both "aimed at financially breaking the water establishment" which was fighting his proposal to export water from the Baca. In 1997, the U.S. Forest Service led what turned out to be a 13-year effort to introduce new trails, campsites and trailheads that eased ascent of Kit Carson and other peaks in the basin; the effort, coordinated with trail restoration groups such as the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative and the Rocky Mountain Field Institute, was concluded in 2010. In January 2002, the Nature Conservancy announced the signing of a $31 million purchase agreement for the Baca Ranch.〔 The purchase significantly expanded the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in 2004. In 2006, a local Dharma group that practices at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in the Baca Grande area beneath the peak renamed Kit Carson "Ritrö Gönpo," the name of a Tibetan deity that serves as the protector of meditation retreats.〔http://www.dharmaocean.org〕 The peak features complex terrain that has misled climbers in the past, contributing to a death in the summer of 2006, 2010, and 2011. In 2011, the United States Board on Geographic Names considered a proposal to rename the peak Mount Crestone, voting unanimously against it due to the potential confusion with nearby Crestone Peak and Crestone Needle. The proposal had been put forward because Carson had led an 1863-64 campaign to dislodge Navajo Indians, who had sided with the Confederacy.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kit Carson Peak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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