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I'll start by saying, as everyone else here and in the other threads, the rules are what you make them. All these variations and special sets for FKTs or whatever else... it's obvious there's no consistent application. 3k first and last but not all? Seems a little arbitrary/convenient for the goal/section 3 paragraph A subsection 2 sub paragraph d to me. And it's as much a matter of convenient geography as anything else.
But then I'm not trying, nor will I ever, to set a FKT. Nor do I think
not gaining 3k on
each peak takes away from those who are/do. It's more than I'll ever do, and even if I eventually get 3k on every peak I wouldn't consider it better than the FKTs. Obviously if someone could break a FKT record
while gaining 3k on every individual peak, that'd be something. Otherwise it's kind of apples and oranges and two different 'records'.
It's all relative, and short of a helicopter, Pikes, Evans, and possibly Antero, pretty much anything else could be considered a climb no matter where you approach from. This moving around or averaging of gain doesn't make sense to me at all, and if you're resorting to
that to determine what counts, you've not only missed the point of climbing them in the first place, but also the point of rules (unless you're a bureaucrat).
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