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El Capitan is a peak in Culberson County, Texas, United States, within Guadalupe Mountains National Park.〔 It is the eighth highest peak in Texas, and rises abruptly out of the Chihuahuan Desert floor; it is considered the "signature peak" of West Texas. El Capitan is the southern terminus of the Guadalupe escarpment, an ancient limestone reef that forms the present-day Guadalupe Mountains. El Capitan is guarded by cliffs on three sides, and those faces are rarely climbed due to the unstable condition of the rock and the sheer nature of the peak. Hikers can scramble up to the summit by first climbing to near the summit of Guadalupe Peak and scrambling down to the south to the Guadalupe Peak-El Capitan saddle, then up the backside of El Capitan. Used as a signal peak for hundreds of years by travelers in the area, its sheer face is visible when approaching the Headquarters Visitor Center at Guadalupe Mountains National Park from both the south and the northeast. File:Guadalupe Peak and El Capitan.jpg|Guadalupe Peak and El Capitan File:El Capitan base 2005-03-12.jpg|Spring at El Capitan File:Guadalupe Mtns El Capitan 2006.JPG|El Capitan in 2006 File:GuadalupeMtsUSGS.jpg|El Capitan in 1899 ==See also== *Chihuahuan Desert *Chisos Mountains *Emory Peak *Guadalupe Peak *McKittrick Canyon *West Texas 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「El Capitan (Texas)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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