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	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Guadalupe Peak
		The peak may be climbed on a maintained trail during any time of the year, although snow may linger in winter and storms and wind may make the journey hazardous.
		Guadalupe Peak is the highest peak in Texas located in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
		Guadalupe Peak is only about 40 miles away so we realized we might have time to hike the peak and make it back in time for the bat flight instead of hiking the peak early Sunday morning.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Guadalupe-Peak (840 words)

	Guadalupe Peak
		Guadalupe Peak is the highest point in Texas at 8749 feet (2667 meters) and is located in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
		All the mountain peaks we could see towering above us reminded us that the Guadalupe Peak had to be higher, because it was the tallest in Texas.
		We reached the Guadalupe Peak campsite cut off a mile down from the top and I calculated that the last mile up had taken us two hours and the same distance down had only taken an hour.
	www.texasbob.com /travel/tbt_guad.html (2807 words)

	Articles; Guadalupe Peak - Discovering America's Sacred Mountain
		Guadalupe Peak forms the head of its range of mountains, a head that curves round from the red bulk of its body.
		Guadalupe Peak is the southern edge of the mountain chain, so that the view beyond it is of the Chihuahan desert.
		Between the peak and the desert is a giant pillar of red rock.
	www.martingoodman.com /GuadalupePeak.htm (3122 words)

	Guadalupe Peak, Texas
		Guadalupe is a favorite peak among highpointers largely because for the entire route you have unobstructed views for almost 100 miles and because the peak is truly unique in that it is one huge fossilized prehistoric ocean reef!
		The peak and its environs are so spectacular that it is one of only four state highpoints designated as National Parks (besides Denali, Mount Rainier and Clingmans Dome).
		It was an easy peak to identify because the nearby dramatic El Capitan drops off to a flat desert just to its south giving the impression that the Rocky Mountains have abuptly ended (although they do pop back up further south in the Davis range).
	americasroof.com /tx.shtml (1439 words)

	Texas Monthly: Why Climb Guadalupe Peak? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Mount Everest is 29,028 feet, and Guadalupe Peak is less than a third of that; still, Guadalupe Peak is the highest place you can get in a state full of tall tales and big history.
		Guadalupe Peak, at 8750 feet, is the highest.
		The Guadalupe Mountain range is also one of the oldest fossil reefs in the world and it's not uncommon to find seashells at the highest elevations in the park.
	www.texasmonthly.com /ranch/guadalupepeak/the.top.of.texas.php (324 words)

	Basin and Range Province
		El Capitan and Guadalupe Peak are the centerpieces of the Capitan reef which rims the western margin of the Delaware Basin.
		Guadalupe Peak is the highest point in Texas at 8749 feet above sea level.
		Guadalupe Peak, the highest peak in the mountains, is nearly a mile higher in elevation than the valley floor.
	www.utpb.edu /ceed/GeologicalResources/West_Texas_Geology/Links/basin_range.htm (152 words)

	Texas Travel Guide - Guadalupe Mountains National Park
		Guadalupe is primarily a park for hiking; there is a network of trails and the region has varied climate zones with differing wildlife and vegetation, interesting geology, and many photographic opportunities.
		McKittrick Canyon - a steep-sided canyon with a lush mixture of vegetation.
		Guadalupe Peak - 8.5 mile round trip to the highest peak in Texas (8,749 feet).
	www.americansouthwest.net /texas/guadalupe_mountains/national_park.html (665 words)

	Texas Travel Guide - Guadalupe Mountains National Park - Guadalupe Peak
		Guadalupe Peak is the highest mountain in Texas (8,749 feet), just 10 miles from the New Mexico border and it may be climbed by a relatively easy 4.25 mile (one-way) trail that starts from the NPS campground near the main visitor centre.
		It is an interesting trip, with different kinds of terrain and a variety of views along the route - of the central Pine Springs Canyon, the desert plains to the south, flatter, intermediate land within the mountains and finally the peak itself, visible only near the end.
		The peak also has an obelisk, a monument to pioneers of the cross-country mail service - the famous Butterfield Overland stage route ran just south of the mountains.
	www.americansouthwest.net /texas/guadalupe_mountains/guadalupe_peak.html (376 words)

	Guadalupe Mountain National Park - Sept 6-8, 2002
		The peak in the background is Hunter Peak.
		After breakfast we went the last mile to the peak to enjoy the solitude of a morning without the noise of people and technology.
		We ended up staying at the peak much longer than we planned so we ran back down the our campsite and packed for the trip down to the trailhead.
	www.biketexas.net /GuadalupeHike.htm (855 words)

	SummitPost - Guadalupe Peak -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		Guadalupe Peak is one of seven 8,000 ft. peaks located in the beautiful, remote, and wild Guadalupe Mountains National Park of West Texas, just south of the more well known national park, Carlsbad Caverns National Park of Southern New Mexico.
		A well maintained trail makes climbing the peak fairly easy; however, the peak would be much more difficult if one chose to climb the peak without the trail due to the extremely rugged terrain.
		The western side of the park encompasses a portion of the salt basin lying between the Guadalupes and the next range of mountains to the west, the Cornudas.
	www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/150689/guadalupe-peak.html (2518 words)

	Features: Getting Higher on Guadalupe Peak
		The useless, uncomfortable, unfriendly, and semi-dangerous conditions surrounding the highest peak in Texas have become a sort of queer reasoning in themselves.
		Guadalupe Peak measures in at 8,750 feet above sea level, making it the single highest point in the state of Texas.
		In the end, the drive, the diligent hype, all of it, evolved into both a journey to the top of Guadalupe Peak and a quest for something much higher.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue23/xtra.guadalupepeak.html (1578 words)

	Guadalupe Mountains National Park Campgrounds at Guadalupe Mountains National Park
		The Guadalupe Mountains National Park is also known for its tremendous earth fault, lofty peaks, unusual flora and fauna, and a colorful record of the past.
		Four points of interest are the Guadalupe Peak, which is the highest point in Texas at 8,749 feet, El Capitan, which is a massive limestone formation, McKittrick Canyon, with its unique flora and fauna, and the "Bowl", which is located in a high country conifer forest.
		Guadalupe Mountains National Park requests that you do not touch these paintings should you see any while on your trip through the national park.
	www.national-park-campgrounds.com /states/texas-national-parks/guadalupe-mountains-national-park.php (462 words)

	Guadalupe Peak, Texas - Climber.Org Trip Report
		Guadalupe Peak, the Texas highpoint, is one of the most geographically isolated, being about 100 miles east of El Paso and a good 400 miles from the next nearest highpoints, Wheeler Peak in New Mexico and Black Mesa in Oklahoma.
		With low airfares available, the expedient means of checking off Guadalupe Peak was to treat it as a single-purpose trip and not try to combine it with other highpoints on one of our epic car trips.
		The Guadalupe Mountains National Park visitors center is in the lower center and the trailhead at 31 53.793'N, 104 49.659'W takes off from the left end of the RV parking area just left of and below center.
	www.climber.org /TripReports/2001/784.html (1338 words)

	Guadalupe Peak: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Guadalupe Peak is the highest point in Texas Texas quick summary:
		Guadalupe mountains national park is located in the guadalupe mountains of west texas and contains guadalupe peak, the highest point in texas at 8,749...
		The peak may be climbed on a maintained trail during any time of the year, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/guadalupe_peak.htm (618 words)

	NPS: Nature & Science» Geology Resources Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Guadalupe Mountains are part of one of the finest examples of an ancient marine fossil reef on Earth.
		Eventually the sea evaporated, the reef subsided, and a thick blanket of sediments and mineral salts buried the reef.
		Guadalupe Peak, the highest peak in Texas at 8,749 feet, is also composed mostly of Capitan Limestone.
	www2.nature.nps.gov /geology/parks/gumo (1837 words)

	We Climbed Guadalupe Peak and Lived to Tell About it.
		The peak stood at an elevation of 8,749 feet and we were at a little over 5,000 feet in the campground where the trail began.
		We were going up quickly, but we were nowhere near the top of the first peak, and it wasn't the one that we set out to conquer.
		Guadalupe Peak was beyond and a lot higher.
	www.movinon.net /Book/Guadalupe.htm (865 words)

	Guadalupe Mountains National Park Information Page
		The Guadalupes provided the riches of game, water, and shelter, and remained their unchallenged sanctuary until the arrival of settlers, cattle drovers, and stage lines.
		Prior to their arrival in the Guadalupes, Apaches were competing on the plains with Comanches, who held an advantage by virtue of their travel on horseback.
		The Western Escarpment extends from Bartlett Peak to El Capitan, with Shumard Peak and Guadalupe Peak, the highest peak in Texas at 8749 feet, in between.
	www.guadalupe.mountains.national-park.com /info.htm (6993 words)

	NMBGMR Staff - Peter Scholle - Guadalupe Mtns. Stop I-1
		Although the topography of the eastern side of the Guadalupe Mountains is almost entirely defined by the largely undeformed primary facies distribution of the Guadalupian sediments, the western face is completely controlled by Tertiary normal faults (DIAGRAM).
		To the north, Bartlett Peak is capped by the oldest exposed Capitan reef limestones which overlie rubble of an older (Goat Seep) reef.
		Carbonate sedimentation of the Victorio Peak, San Andres, and Grayburg strata was characterized by "ramp" development with an unbarred, gentle transition from shelf to basin (Pray, 1988b; Wilson, 1975).
	geoinfo.nmt.edu /staff/scholle/permstops/pmstop1_1.html (1109 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Guadalupe Mountains National Park at Epinions.com
		GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS National Park is unspoiled, uncrowded, and easily accessible from the highway.
		Back in 1967, when we were college students, a friend of mine named Tryon Lewis and I climbed Guadalupe Peak in tennis shoes and shorts with just canteens hanging at our sides.
		If you go to Guadalupe Mountains National Park, you are only a few minutes' drive away from another great National Park, Carlsdad Caverns, which we take a look at in another epinion.
	www.epinions.com /content_7129173636 (1378 words)

	USGS OFR 01-223: USGS National Paleontological Database
		The Guadalupe Peak 1:100k quadrangle was also examined in development of Paleodata because it contains a wealth of fossil data from a variety of publications and informal reports.
		Guadalupe Mountains National Park is the first US park to have established international boundary stratotypes, and we took it as a challenge to serve this information along with other fossil data (fig.
		Guadalupe Mountains National Park (within the Guadalupe Peak 1:100k Quadrangle) contains the GSSP (Global Stratotype and Stratigraphic Point) for the internationally recognized Middle Permian (Guadalupian and its constituent stages, Roadian, Wordian, and Capitanian).
	pubs.usgs.gov /of/2001/of01-223/wardlaw.html (2005 words)

	TX: Guadalupe Peak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The profile of the Guadalupe Range is very distinctive (the range ends abruptly in El Capitan's southern face) and was visible quite a ways away.
		Setting foot on the summit I was rapidly hit with the full force of Guadalupe Peak's winds.
		One was backpacking the trail (staying at a campground just a mile from the summit), and one was a fellow highpointer repeating Guadalupe Peak on his way to the Grand Canyon.
	mcfarren.info /adam/outdoor/highpoints/tx.shtml (603 words)

	Texas Monthly: Why Climb Guadalupe Peak?
		Our plan is to do an afternoon hike to the Guadalupe Peak campground, which at 7,300 feet is the highest campground in the state.
		After all, Guadalupe Mountains National Park is and always has been a wilderness refuge for the indigenous animals, including the rarely seen fl bear.
		Unfortunately, the 79,293-acre park is one of the last refuges for the bear in Texas, and such exotic wildlife as the bighorn sheep and Meriam's elk have become extinct in the mountains due to human activity.
	www.texasmonthly.com /ranch/guadalupepeak/from.the.ground.up.php (371 words)

	Culberson TX highpoint - www.surgent.net
		Guadalupe Peak in West Texas was my first true introduction to highpointing for highpointing's sake.
		Instead, my hike up Guadalupe was more of a lucky set of circumstances as the result of a trip that I undertook in the summer of 1993.
		Guadalupe itself was still obscured except for the last little bit.
	www.surgent.net /highpoints/tx/culberson.html (675 words)

	OneDayHikes.com - Hikes and Hiking Trails (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The reward for this strenuous climb is attaining the summit of the highest mountain in Texas, 8,749-ft Guadalupe Peak.
		The Park protects the southern portion of the Guadalupe Mountains that continue north for 50 miles.
		The peak is exposed to lightening so avoid being on the summit on summer afternoons.
	www.onedayhikes.com /Hikes.asp?HikesID=84 (569 words)

	GUADALUPE PEAK
		Guadalupe Peak, the highest mountain in Texas, rises grandly above the West Texas desert in the Guadalupe Mountains, about 75 miles east of El Paso.
		These mountains are the remnant of an immense limestone reef that once formed here on the shore of an ancient sea.
		The trail was adequate for horses to be ridden up, and in a couple of places signs warned riders to dismount and lead their horses where the route was especially narrow above cliffs.
	colomtnclimb.freehosting.net /guadalupe.htm (1167 words)

	Guadalupe Peak Radio Details
		The Guadalupe Peak site is located about 3 miles east of the city of Quartzsite, Arizona, and about 25 miles east of the California/Arizona border on Interstate 10.
		Guadalupe Peak is at an elevation of 2,520 feet above mean sea level and has a commanding view of Interstate 10 eastward to Phoenix.
		The Guadalupe Peak site has 4 open frame racks mounted along the centerline of the container which house the Cactus remote.
	www.cactus-intertie.org /LA/Guadalupe.htm (574 words)

	SummitPost - Bartlett Peak -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		Bartlett is one of 5 peaks that line an escarpment that rises over 5,000 ft above the salt flats to the west.
		Bartlett Peak has outstanding 360 degree views in all directions, just like Guadalupe Peak; however, its summit is rarely ever climbed, in stark contrast to the frequently climbed Guadalupe Peak.
		Bartlett Peak is located in the romote and beautiful Guadalupe Mountains National Park (for more information on the park, see the Guadalupe Peak page), located in West Texas just south of Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
	www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/151908/bartlett-peak.html (649 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS
		near Marathon, the Guadalupes are the only exposed portions of the largest fossil reef in the world, a 400-mile-long horseshoe that formed at the edge of the Delaware Basin of the Permian Sea some 250 million years ago.
		Using the Guadalupes as their home base, the Mescaleros were riding against the Navajos and Pueblos on the plains as early as 1630, and by 1680 were raiding El Paso del Norte.
		He called the Guadalupes "a dark, gloomy-looking range, with bold and forbidding sides, consisting of huge piles of rock, their debris heaped far above the surrounding hills," and suggested that the proposed transcontinental railroad follow a route to the south of the mountains.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/rjg18.html (1229 words)

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