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Key Col for Piute Peak

Col Elevation: 4960- feet, 1512- meters

Key Col for:	Piute Peak (8440 ft/2573 m)
Key Col Elevation Info:	Elevation range: 4960 - 4920 ft (40-foot contour interval)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	35° 27' N, 118° 13' W
Prominence	Clean: 3480 ft/1061 m Optimistic: 3560 ft/1085 m Average: 3520 ft/1073 m
Prominence Parentage:	Line Parent: Cartago Peak Island Parent: Mount Whitney
Ridgewalk Distance:	109.67 mi/176.49 km
Country	United States
State/Province	California
County/Second Level Region	Kern
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Detailed Ridgewalk Listing

The table below lists the peaks and cols that lie on the path from Piute Peak to its Key Col and onward to its Line Parent. This route is the highest possible path that follows ridgecrests from the peak to higher ground. It corresponds to the yellow line on the map above. Note: This feature is preliminary. There may be errors in the ridgewalk data and/or bugs in the code that give misleading results. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Ridge Point	Elev-ft	Prom-ft	Ridge Name(s)	Basins to each side	Dist-mi	Cumulative-mi
START: Piute Peak	8440	3480
(Unnamed Col)	8360				0.08	0.08
(Ridge Junction)					0.11	0.18
(Ridge Junction)					0.27	0.46
(Ridge Junction)				Buena Vista Lake Bed/Kern	4.19	4.65
KEY COL: (Unnamed Col)	4960		Pacific Crest/Sierra Nevada Crest	Fremont Valley/Kern	10.76	15.41
(Ridge Junction)			Pacific Crest/Sierra Nevada Crest	Fremont Valley/Kern	9.96	25.37
Wyleys Knob	6360	1005	Pacific Crest/Sierra Nevada Crest	Searles Lake/Kern	3.85	29.22
Bird Spring Pass	5355		Pacific Crest/Sierra Nevada Crest	Searles Lake/Kern	1.7	30.91
(Ridge Junction)			Pacific Crest/Sierra Nevada Crest	Searles Lake/Kern	27.16	58.07
(Ridge Junction)			Pacific Crest/Sierra Nevada Crest	Searles Lake/Kern	30.14	88.21
(Ridge Junction)			Pacific Crest/Sierra Nevada Crest	Searles Lake/Kern	4.93	93.13
(Ridge Junction)			Pacific Crest/Sierra Nevada Crest	Kern/Owens Valley	0.59	93.73
(Ridge Junction)			Pacific Crest/Sierra Nevada Crest	Kern/Owens Valley	9	102.72
(Ridge Junction)			Pacific Crest/Sierra Nevada Crest	Kern/Owens Valley	0.77	103.49
LINE PARENT: Cartago Peak	10,480	520	Pacific Crest/Sierra Nevada Crest	Kern/Owens Valley	6.18	109.67
PROM PARENT: (Unnamed Col)
ISLAND PARENT: Mount Whitney	14,498	10,078

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