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Mount Sneffels Wilderness
The
Mount Sneffels
Wilderness
is a
wilderness area
in southwest
Colorado
managed by the
Uncompahgre National Forest
. It is about
west
of
the town
of
Ouray
. The area is named for
Mt
.
Sneffels
, which at is a
prominent
fourteener
in the
San Juan Mountains
.
The word
"Sneffels" is
likely
an
Americanization
of the
Old Norse
word
for Snæfell "snow mountain," which is also the
namesake
of the
Snæfellsnes peninsula
and
Snæfellsjökull
volcano in Iceland
.