Mount of the Holy Cross

by Jon Burch Photography

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Mount of the Holy Cross

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Jon Burch Photography

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Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Be On Your Finished Photograph.

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The Mount of the Holy Cross is the northernmost 14,000-foot mountain in the Sawatch Range in Colorado's Rocky Mountains. It is located in the Holy Cross Wilderness near the ghost town of Holy Cross City and in Eagle County. Named for the distinctive cross-shaped snowfield on the northeast face, travelers have gazed on it for years. Under the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service administration, the mountain was proclaimed the "Holy Cross National Monument" by Herbert Hoover in 1929. This was later transferred to the National Park Service in 1933 and in 1950, the mountain was returned to the Forest Service therefore losing its National Monument status. The number of visitors to the mountain and the nearby "Pilgrim's Hut" had waned, and the expense of full-time staff could not be justified.

The first publicly available photograph was published in National Geographic magazine. It has been the subject of painters, photographers and even a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called the "The Cross of Snow". A famous oil painting by Thomas Moran can be found in the collection of the Museum of the American West, part of the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, California.

Image copyright 2014 Jon Burch Photography.

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August 7th, 2014

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