Hardscrabble Mountain

{{short description|Mountain in Colorado, United States}}

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| location = Custer County, Colorado, United States

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Hardscrabble Mountain is a summit located in Custer County, Colorado with an elevation of {{convert|3171|m|ft}}.{{Cite web |title=Hardscrabble Mountain (Feature ID 192202) |url=https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/95eec452-7260-596c-a3a7-92254c6fa098/summary |access-date=2021-11-02 |website=Geographic Names Information System}}{{Cite web |title=Hardscrabble Mountain |url=https://peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=16655 |access-date=2021-11-02 |website=peakbagger.com}} It is one of the peaks in Wet Mountains, a sub-range of the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains.{{Cite web |title=Hardscrabble Mountain |url=https://peakvisor.com/peak/hardscrabble-mountain-1g8agozb6.html |access-date=2021-11-02 |website=PeakVisor |language=en}} A local legend is that the mountain was named after an event from Christmas Day 1855. Ute Native Americans attacked settlers in Pueblo, after which soldiers pursued the Utes. They ran up the creek and had a “hard scrabble” to avoid being captured.{{Cite book |last=Green |first=Stewart M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExfpdzUDGEYC&pg=PA74 |title=Scenic Routes & BywaysTM Colorado |date=2013-06-04 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-7627-9588-8 |pages=74}}

Four Hardscrabble Creek streams are found in the Hardscrabble Mountain and Wetmore area:

• North Hardscrabble Creek
• Middle Hardscrabble Creek
• South Fork North Hardscrabble Creek
• South Hardscrabble Creek start at Hardscrabble Mountain.{{Cite web |title=Hardscrabble Pass |url=https://passbagger.org/pb-hardscrabble-old.htm |access-date=2021-11-02 |website=passbagger.org}}

Other nearby geological sites are:

• South Hardscrabble Park, a flat south of Hardscrabble Mountain
• Hardscrabble Pass, west-southwest of the mountain

File:Hardscrabble Pass.JPG) from Hardscrabble Pass]]

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