South Sister, Oregon

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 10,363 ft / 3158 m
Alternate Name(s)	Big Sister
Subpeaks	Hodge Crest (10,039 ft/3060 m)
Peak Type	Volcano
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	44° 6' 13'' N; 121° 46' 10'' W 44.103548, -121.769378 (Dec Deg) 598493E 4884110N Zone 10 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Oregon
County/Second Level Region	Deschutes (Highest Point) Lane (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "South Sister":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      SummitPost.org Page for South Sister      CoHP.org Trip Report for Deschutes, OR by Ken Jones      CoHP.org Trip Report for Deschutes, OR by Dean Molen      CoHP.org Trip Report for Deschutes, OR by Adam Helman Lists that contain South Sister:      Mazamas Cascades Award (Rank #3)      Oregon Top 100 Peaks (Rank #3)      Oregon 9000-foot Peaks (Rank #3)      Oregon Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #4)      Oregon County High Points (Rank #5)      Mazamas Sixteen Northwest Peaks Award (Rank #8)      Chemeketan Eighteen Northwest Peaks Award (Rank #8)      Cascade Volcanoes Peak Pin (Rank #10)      Cascade Range 9000-foot Peaks (Rank #12)      2000-foot Prominence CoHPs - 48 States (Rank #32)      USA Lower 48 Top 100 Peaks by Prominence (Rank #35)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 4000 feet of Prominence (Rank #35)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 5000 feet of Prominence (Rank #35)      5000 foot Prominence CoHPs (Rank #41)      U.S. National Forest High Points (Rank #45)      Western USA CoHPs (Rank #151)      USA Lower 48 Range5 High Points (Rank #153) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Climbing the Cascade Volcanoes (Smoot)        Oregon High: A Climbing Guide to Nine Cascade Volcanoes (Thomas)        Backcountry Ski! Oregon (Van Tilburg) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      1999-08-26 by Don Gilman      2000-09-17 by Jeff Crow      2003-08-17 by John Naleway      2003-08-30 by Patrick Shannon      2003-09-07 by Jan Peter Eklund      2005-08-07 by Caleb Morris      2006-08-11 by John Naleway      2007-09-12 by Scott Cockrell      2008-09-27 by Jared Wolcott      2009-08-14 by Ken Lytwyn (Unsuccessful)      2010-06-15 by Kevin Zuech (Unsuccessful)      2010-08-07 by Marshall Stewart      2010-08-18 by Rob Woodall      2010-09-05 by George Burgess (GPS Track)      2011-07-02 by Will Lawrence      2011-08-27 by Richard Hensley      2011-10-02 by Jeff Breaden      2012-06-06 by Greg Slayden (GPS Track)      2012-07-24 by James Barlow      2012-08-22 by Vic Hanson View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members. Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to South Sister      Elevation Ladder from South Sister      Prominence Ladder from South Sister

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Prominence	Clean Prominence: 5588 ft/1703 m Optimistic Prominence: 5598 ft/1706 m Key Col: Chemult, OR 4770 ft/1454 m  (10 foot contour) Col elevation in range between 4760 and 4770 feet.     Topo Map: Chemult O43121b7 1:24,000     Key Col Lat/Long: 43° 13' 54'' N; 121° 47' 25'' W     Key Col Map Links: Bing Maps   MSN/Encarta   Google Maps
Isolation	39.4 mi/63.41 km Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Mount Jefferson  (N) Isolation Limit Point: 44° 40' 26'' N; 121° 47' 58'' W     ILP Map Links: Bing Maps   MSN/Encarta   Google Maps
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Cascade Range Range4: Oregon Cascades Range5: Sisters Area (Highest Point)
Ridges/Divides	Pacific Crest Oregon Cascade Crest
Drainage Basins	Willamette Columbia Pacific Ocean Deschutes [OR] Columbia Pacific Ocean
Ownership	Land: Deschutes National Forest (Highest Point)/Willamette National Forest Wilderness/Special Area: Three Sisters Wilderness Area (Highest Point)
Topo Map	South Sister O44121a7 1:24,000

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