supranihilest wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:17 am
The 13er list Bill uses here on 14ers is ranked (regardless of name) + soft-ranked (regardless of name, and Bill doesn't signify whether a peak is soft-ranked or unranked, they're just labeled unranked) + officially named (regardless of rank). LoJ has a lot of other unranked, unnamed 13ers, many of which come from Dwight Lavender's
The San Juan Mountaineers' Climber's Guide to Southwestern Colorado. The Sneffels Range is particularly rife with these as there are all kinds of unofficially named towers along the ridges of the area and on Sneffels itself. The first two columns on the LoJ 13ers page that Susan mentions don't take into account whether a peak is officially named, just prominence/(soft-)rank. The first is all ranked 13ers (which will line up with the ranked list here on 14ers), the second is ranked + soft-ranked, the third is all LoJ 13ers regardless of rank or official name. Boggy's the only person to have completed the list here on 14ers to my knowledge, but he might know more about the history of said accomplishment since not everyone uses this site or LoJ. Mike Garratt has done all ranked+soft-ranked 13ers but not all officially named 13ers. Nobody's completed the full LoJ list and I doubt anyone ever will.
Sums it up pretty well.
The 3rd column on the aforelinked page includes all kinds of made-up peaks like "Captain Bivwacko," "Yahoo Mountain," "Pin Point," the criteria for inclusion essentially being their appearance in some published work, and thus a perpetually moving target that includes gobs of insignificant and uninteresting objectives, alongside good ones like "Sunlight Spire" (formerly 13k), "The Hand" and "T 3" (near Sneffels), etc.
Whereas, "unranked" is usually taken to mean "soft-ranked" and/or "officially named." Soft-ranked are significant in that they're almost ranked, and likely more accurate future elevation measurements will shuffle things around the prominence threshold both ways. Officially named looked prominent enough to receive official names, the only explanation in certain cases being that the lookers failed to see the big-ass mountain beyond (see: Mt. Cosgriff with its 48 feet of prominence).
As for history, my knowledge is limited:
I wrote:
the now-767 13ers on Bill's list ... is a superset of the 696 ranked and "unranked" (but officially named by the USGS) 13ers, and it includes most or all of the soft-ranked peaks as well. In the natural course of list inflation I determined to climb all 727 Colorado 13ers that are currently ranked, soft-ranked, or named, regardless of inclusion in Bill's list. Our ascent of Little Finger represents the completion of both objectives ... Purely because there is only one soft-ranked 14er (North Massive), I conveniently extended this goal to encompass all 786 Colorado peaks over 13,000' that are currently ranked, soft-ranked, or named.
Unknown hobnail-booted, wool-clad hardmen and hardwomen may well have completed these objectives under different terms prior to the information age. Certainly the mountaineers of yore displayed a zeal for adventure in unappealing venues that is scarce nowadays.
Much more recently, Peter Stabolepszy is believed to have completed all ranked and then-named Colorado peaks over 13,000' (754 as of this writing).
Steve Gladbach in addition to his many mountaineering achievements hoped to (and surely would have) become the second person after Stabolepszy to complete that list.
Mike Garratt has completed all ranked and soft-ranked Colorado peaks over 13,000' (686) but appears to have stopped a few peaks short of the named 13ers.
There are probably others who are pursuing or completed similar goals but do not record their ascents publicly.
I note that Garratt still has Needle Ridge, Gray Needle, Keyboard of the Winds, and St. Sophia Ridge unclimbed (on LoJ). The named list really hinges on Gray Needle. The crushers (Kirks, Gergen, Nolan, & co.) don't seem to care much for unranked peaks.
13ers:
Ranked 13ers (>=300' prominence): 584
Soft-ranked 13ers (>=280' prominence): 112
Named unranked 13ers (>0' prominence): 31
Unnamed unranked 13ers (>0' prominence): Infinity
The 58:
Ranked 14ers (>=300' prominence): 53
Named unranked 14ers (>0' prominence): 5
The bonus list:
Soft-ranked 14ers (>=280' prominence): 1 (N Massive)
Unnamed unranked 14ers (>0' prominence): 15
