Mt. Massive is the second highest mountain in Colorado, only 11 feet shorter than its neighbor across the valley, Mt. Elbert.  It makes up for those 11 feet by being the mountain with the most area over 14,000 feet in the contiguous 48 states.  With a summit and four sub-summits over 14,000 feet and a three-mile-long summit ridge Mt. Massive is truly massive.  If you’ve been to Leadville, you’ve seen Mt. Massive and you may have mistaken it for a whole mountain range.  Massive doesn’t so much dominate Leadville’s western skyline as it IS Leadville’s western skyline.