Range end-pointing

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After climbing Black Tooth in the Bighorns this past summer, I noted that it was the Rockies' northernmost 13er. That led me to think of the idea of "range end-pointing," i.e. climbing the northern- and southern-most peaks in a range above a certain elevation. With a bit of digging around on peakbagger.com, I came up with the following list for the Rockies:

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| Elev (kft) | South          | North         |
|------------+----------------+---------------|
|         14 | Culebra        | Longs Peak    |
|         13 | Truchas Peak   | Black Tooth   |
|         12 | Lake Peak      | Mount Robson  |
|         11 | Elk Mountain   | Whitehorn     |
|         10 | Thompson Peak  | Mount Ida     |

And for the Sierra:

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| Elev (kft) | South           | North               |
|------------+-----------------+---------------------|
|         14 | Mount Langley   | Mount Sill†         |
|         13 | Joe Devel Peak  | Mount Dana          |
|         12 | Olancha Peak    | Matterhorn Peak     |
|         11 | Ed Lane Point   | Peak 11,000         |
|         10 | Maggie Mountain | Snowflower Mountain |

† -- Thunderbolt Peak is slightly farther north than Sill, and a traditional California 14er, but has less than 300 feet of prominence.

The Rockies in particular are a fun and challenging list to work on, and I was pleased that both ranges have a "stair-step" shape, in that the extreme peak for each elevation tier is always farther from the range center than the extreme peak for the one just above it. (Robson almost breaks this.)