Monday, August 29, 2011

LISTS- The "Ranked" 14ers

Mt. of the Holy Cross
Mount of the Holy Cross
Over the years the standard list of acceptable 14ers that you must, at a minimum, have climbed in order to claim having "climbed" the 14ers has changed. Changes resulting from new surveys and shifts in mountaineering culture have led to various versions of the 14er "list". The debate over what constitutes a mountain or a peak, versus just a sub-peak or false summit, is always lively. Though it may sound trivial, certain famous Colorado mountains such as North Maroon Peak and El Diente are often not included in certain lists for this very reason. The modern "official" 14er list includes 53 peaks as delineated by the criteria of having at least 300 feet of topographic prominence from it nearest higher neighbor as well a half mile separation between those peaks. Those constraints yield the popularly syndicated term of "rank"; a peak is "ranked" if it meets these criteria and that yields the most current "official" 14er list. As a mountaineering challenge, completing Colorado's 53 ranked 14ers is very popular. It is, in fact, by far the most popular of all possible "lists".

Colorado's Ranked 14ers

Peak Name ElevationRank Range Difficulty easiest route (YDS)
Mount Elbert 14,433' 1 Sawatchclass 1
Mount Massive 14,421'2 Sawatch class 2
Mount Harvard 14,420' 3 Sawatch class 2
Blanca Peak 14,345' 4 Sangre De Cristo class 2
La Plata 14,336'5 Sawatch class 2
Uncompahgre Peak 14,309' 6 San Juan class 2
Crestone Peak 14,294' 7 Sangre De Cristo class 3
Mount Lincoln14,286' 8 Tenmile Range class 2
Grays Peak 14,270' 9 Front Rangeclass 1
Mount Antero 14,269'10 Sawatch class 2
Torreys Peak 14,267' 11 Front Range class 2
Castle Peak 14,265' 12 Elk Range class 2+
Quandary Peak14,265' 13 Tenmile Range class 1
Mount Evans 14,264' 14 Front Rangeclass 1
Longs Peak 14,255' 15 Front Range class 3
Mount Wilson14,246' 16 Front Range class 4
Mount Shavano 14,229' 17 Sawatchclass 2
Mount Princeton 14,197'18 Sawatch class 2
Mount Belford 14,197 19 Sawatch class 1
Crestone Needle 14,197 20 Sangre De Cristo class 3
Mount Yale14,196' 21 Sawatch class 2
Mount Bross 14,172' 22 Mosquitoclass 2
Kit Carson Peak 14,165'23 Sangre De Cristo class 3
Maroon Peak 14,156' 24 Elk Range class 3
Tabeguache Peak 14,155' 25 Sawatchclass 2
Mount Oxford 14,153'26 Sawatch class 2
Mount Sneffels 14,150' 27 San Juan class 2
Mount Democrat 14,148' 28Mosquito class 2
Capitol Peak14,130' 29 Elk class 4
Pikes Peak 14,110 30 Front Rangeclass 1
Snowmass Mountain 14,092'31 Elk class 3
Windom Peak14,087' 32 San Juan class 2+
Mount Eolus 14,084' 33 San Juanclass 3
Challenger Point 14,081'34 Sangre De Cristo class 2+
Mount Columbia 14,073' 35 Sawatch class 2
Missouri Mountain 14,067' 36Sawatch class 2+
Humboldt Peak14,064' 37 Sangre De Cristo class 2
Mount Bierstadt 14,060' 38 Front Range class 2
Sunlight Peak14,059' 39 San Juan class 4
Handies Peak 14,048' 40 San Juanclass 1
Culebra Peak 14,047'41 Sangre De Cristo class 2
Mount Lindsey 14,042' 42 Sangre De Cristoclass 2+
Ellingwood Point 14,042'43 Sangre De Cristo class 2
Little Bear 14,037' 44 Sangre De Cristo class 4
Mount Sherman 14,036' 45 Tenmile Range class 2
Redcloud Peak14,034' 46 San Juan class 2
Pyramid Peak 14,018' 47 Elk Rangeclass 4
Wilson Peak 14,017'48San Juan class 3
Wetterhorn14,015' 49 San Juan class 3
San Luis Peak 14,014' 50 San Juanclass 1
Mount of the Holy Cross14,005'51 Elk Range class 2
Huron Peak 14,003' 52 Sawatch class 1
Sunshine Peak 14,001' 53 San Juan class 2

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