Does Cameron count? Really?

[Scott P]

People once thought that Pike's Peak was 18,000 feet high, too.

Mount Hood was first reported to be 25,000 feet high.

The Collegiates in Colorado were sometimes reported as more than 17,000 feet high.

[Mark A Steiner]

Once saw a turn-of the century advertisement for a tram ride above Silver Plume that terminated on 14,003-foot Mount McClellan (13,587').

More recently (1967), a Conoco highway map listed Mount Aetna at 14,163 feet. Probably meant it to be Tabeguache (14,155'). There was a Conoco gas station at Antero Junction.

This thread resurrects many memories ...

[CORed]

Does Mt. Evans count if you hike from the end of the road?
From Summit Lake?
Sneffles from the 4WD TH? (standard route, not SW Ridge)
Handies from American Basin?
Sherman?
Do any of the combo routes count?
Does it count if it's class 1?
Etc.

It's a slippery slope. If you want to see how much work you've done you should just abandon peak lists entirely and only keep track of your total Roach Points. Then maybe that would indicate something. Probably not.

It doesn't even matter. Go hike something.

(It's on the list of 58, so I do keep a record of it).

I have been to the summits of Pikes Peak, Bross and Antero. I don't have them checked on my list because I drove all of Pikes and I drove to within 1,000 vertical feet of the summits of Bross and Antero. I have driven up Evans many times, but have also ascended it from Guanella pass, so I do count it.

[CORed]

Avoid the 14000 foot bogey and use 13950 as your standard, or 13863, or some other number. Nothing sacred about 14000.

Heck, if you like round numbers as your cutoff go metric and climb everything above 4000 meters. That'll keep you busy for awhile.

[rijaca]

(But I assume Rijaca's point is that nobody knows the origin of the name, hence, it doesn't count.)

WTF!?

jdorje, I know that from your ivory tower high above Crestone, that you can see all that occurs in the Sangres, but your prescient abilities don't include my thoughts.

Oh, and you should get out of that ivory tower and hike more!

[screeman57]

(But I assume Rijaca's point is that nobody knows the origin of the name, hence, it doesn't count.)

WTF!?

jdorje, I know that from your ivory tower high above Crestone, that you can see all that occurs in the Sangres, but your prescient abilities don't include my thoughts.

Oh, and you should get out of that ivory tower and hike more!

Hmmm... you mean his interpretation of what you wrote?

Calm down, man.