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Crestone Needle babban koli ne na dutsen Crestones a cikin Sangre de Cristo Range na Dutsen Rocky na Arewacin Amurka .  goma sha huɗu yana  gabas-kudu maso gabas ( mai ɗauke da 108°) na Garin Crestone a cikin Saguache County, Colorado, Amurka .    Crestones sune gungu na manyan koli a cikin Sangre de Cristo Range, wanda ya ƙunshi Crestone Peak, Crestone Needle, Kit Carson Peak, Challenger Point, Humboldt Peak, da Columbia Point . Yawancin lokaci ana samun isarsu daga madaidaitan sawu na gama gari.

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Duk da yake bai kai tsayin Crestone Peak ba, kuma an haɗa shi da wani tsayi mai tsayi, mai jakunkuna, Crestone Needle ana ɗaukarsa a matsayin hawan da ya dace da kansa. Hanya mafi sauƙi ita ce Fuskar Kudu (ko Kudancin Couloir), yawanci ana samun dama ta Broken Hand Pass daga Kudancin Colony Lakes. Wannan ƙwaƙƙwaran ɗan fallasa ne tare da ƴan ƙwaƙƙwaran yunƙuri, kuma yana ɗaya daga cikin madaidaitan madaidaitan hanyoyi a tsakanin Colorado goma sha huɗu. Duk da haka, hanyar gargajiya akan dutsen ita ce Ellingwood Arete, wanda kuma aka sani da Ellingwood Ledges Route . Wannan wani tudu ne mai tsayi a gefen arewa maso gabas na kololuwa, wanda ke kaiwa kai tsaye daga Kogin Upper South Colony zuwa babban koli. Hawan dutse ne mai sauƙi na fasaha (5.7 akan Sikelin Decimal na Yosemite ). Ya shahara musamman saboda shigarsa a cikin sanannen littafin Fifty Classic Climbs of North America na Steve Roper da Allen Steck. 

Kololuwar ta ƙunshi galibi na granite da conglomerate . Hannun Knobby akai-akai kusa da taron. Filayen dusar ƙanƙara suna daɗe a ko'ina cikin lokacin bazara.

Kusan duk mace-macen da ke kan kololuwa na faruwa ne a kan ko dai ta hanyar Class 4 daga Crestone Peak ko kuma hanyar Ellingwood Ledges na fasaha.

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