Dorado Needle, Washington

Elevation Info:	Elevation range: 8440 - 8480 ft     (40-foot closed contour) NAVD88 Elevation: 8445 ft / 2574 m     (Range 8445 - 8485 ft)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	48° 32' 59'' N, 121° 8' 19'' W 48.549794, -121.138595 (Dec Deg) 637368 E 5379083 N, Zone 10 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Washington
County/Second Level Region	Skagit
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Dorado Needle":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Dorado Needle at SummitPost.org      Dorado Needle at ListsOfJohn.com Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Dorado Needle:      Washington State Top 100 Peaks (Rank #67)      Washington Bulger List (Rank #68)      Peaks with Highest Ascent Quality Ratings (Rank #8)      Washington State Top 200 Peaks (Rank #67) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Summit Routes: Washington's 100 Highest Peaks (Stephenson, Bongiovanni)        Washington's Highest Mountains: Basic Alpine and Glacier Routes (Goldman) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      2006-08-20 by Eric J. Johnson      2010-07-07 by Milda Tautvydas      2012-08-11 by Chad Painter (GPS Track)      2014-06-07 by Joshua Ricardi      2015-05-17 by Julie Myer      2015-05-29 by Sean Albert (GPS Track)      2015-07-18 by Petro Ksondzyk (GPS Track)      2017-06-29 by Adam Walker      2018-05-08 by Eric Gilbertson      2018-05-12 by Fabien Le Gallo (GPS Track)      2018-07-23 by Jake Robinson View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (73 total) Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Dorado Needle      Elevation Ladder from Dorado Needle      Prominence Ladder from Dorado Needle

The end of Pitch 7. One of the most enjoyable pitches to get up on the ridge. Clean climbing on a solid rock (2015-07-18). Photo by Petro Ksondzyk. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 800 ft/244 m   Optimistic Prominence: 880 ft/268 m   Line Parent: Eldorado Peak   Key Col: 7640 ft/2329 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 0.73 mi/1.18 km    Isolation Limit Point: 48.54, -121.1325 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Eldorado Peak  (SSE)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Pacific Ranges Range3: Cascade Range Range4: North Cascades Range5: Central North Cascades Range6: Eldorado Massif
Drainage Basins	Skagit Puget Sound Pacific Ocean
Ownership	Land: North Cascades National Park Wilderness/Special Area: Stephen Mather Wilderness Area
Topo Map	Eldorado Peak O48121e2 1:24,000
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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