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Presenting Gerry’s Center Out theory of peaking!
1. Colorado’s Boulder County In your home county, climb everything.
Gerry has completed this list.
2. Colorado’s County Summits In your home state, climb the highest peak in every county. Both Gerry and Jennifer have completed this list.
3. US State Summits In your home country, climb the highest peak in every state. Gerry has done all the US State Summits.
4. North America’s
    Country Summits		 In your home continent, climb the highest peak in every country. Jennifer has some work to do up north, and we both have some work to do in Central America.
5. Earth’s Continent Summits On your home planet, climb the highest peak in every continent. Gerry has completed this list.

Practice local: Colorado Peaks
Colorado’s Fourteeners Colorado’s Thirteeners
Colorado’s Twelvers Colorado’s Eleveners
Colorado’s Rocky Mtn Natl Park Colorado’s Indian Peaks Wilderness Area
Colorado’s Rocky Mtn Natl Park Region Colorado’s Greater Indian Peaks Region
Colorado’s Gore Range Colorado’s Gore Range Alphabetizer
Colorado’s Park Range Colorado’s Flat Tops
Colorado’s Front Range Colorado’s Tenmile-Mosquito Range
Colorado’s Sawatch Range Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Range
Colorado’s Elk Range Colorado’s San Juan Range
Colorado’s Rawah Range Colorado’s Vasquez Mountains
Colorado’s Mount Evans Wilderness Colorado’s Lost Creek Wilderness
Colorado’s Retirement Range  
Colorado’s Boulder County City of Boulder’s Watershed
Colorado’s Gilpin County Colorado’s Jefferson County
Colorado’s County Summits Colorado’s Most Prominent Peaks
Colorado’s Range Summits Colorado’s Peak Distribution

Expand your horizons: Western States
Arizona’s Counties Utah’s Counties
Utah’s Thirteeners New Mexico’s Twelvers
Wyoming’s Thirteeners Washington’s Thirteeners
Alaska’s Thirteeners Hawaii’s Thirteeners
California’s Fourteners California’s Thirteeners
Montana’s Eleveners Washington’s Most Prominent Peaks
Nevada’s Twelvers Washington’s Snoqualmie Pass
Lower 48 Ultra Summits  

Look beyond the horizon: Other Environs
Colorado’s Flatiron Routes Arches and Bridges
Sierra Club’s DPS Peaks List Second Desert Peaks List
California’s Death Valley National Park US Fourteeners
US State Summits US National Parks
US State 2nd Highest Summits  

Go Global:
Canada’s Thirteeners Alaska and Canada’s Thirteeners
Mexico’s Thirteeners North America’s Country Summits
Earth’s Continent Summits North America’s Highest Summits
Earth’s Highest Summits Scotland’s Munros and Marilyns

Notes by Gerry Roach:
  1. Name.
    A peak qualifies for a list if it is named or ranked. Named summits are on a list if they are ranked or unranked. The officially named summits include peaks, mounts, mountains, named ridges, named benchmarks if they do not have a peak name, named rocks, named hills, and other named features such as moraines. I enclose unofficial names in double quotation marks. If a summit has both a peak name and a named benchmark, the peak name takes precedence.

  2. Prominence.
    The Prominence of a summit in these lists is its rise above the highest saddle connecting the summit to higher ground. This highest saddle is called the Prominence Saddle, which I have previously called the Connecting Saddle. Thus, Prominence is the elevation of the summit minus the elevation of the Prominence Saddle. Prominence is a pure topographic measure that is independent of names, parents, and ranks. Occasionally, a summit does not have a given elevation, and in these cases, the summit elevation is calculated by extrapolating above the summit’s highest closed contour by half the contour interval. Often, a saddle does not have a given elevation, and in these cases the saddle elevation is interpolated between the highest contour that does not go through the saddle and the lowest contour that does go through the saddle. Given elevations in a saddle are used, but only if they represent the low point of the saddle. The maps used for calcutaing Prominence are the largest scale (most detailed) maps available for the region. In Colorado, these are the the USGS 7.5 minute quadrangles, which typically have a contour interval of 40 feet in the mountains. In these lists, Prominence is given in feet.

  3. Rank.
    A summit has a hard rank, if it has at least 300 feet of Prominence. Prominence is given in the Prom column, and a right-justified number in the Rank column means that the summit has a hard rank. Summits that do not have a hard rank but could rank if extrapolated elevations were not used for the summit and/or interpolated elevations were not used for the Prominence Saddle, have a soft rank. Summits with a soft rank have a left-justified S in the Rank column. No entry in the Rank column means that the summit is named but unranked. I list ranked summits whether they are named or not.

  4. Parent.
    The closest, higher, hard ranked summit is the Proximate Parent. The closest, higher, hard ranked summit that one would reach by climbing beyond and above the Prominence Saddle is the Prominence Parent. The term Line Parent is a synonym for Prominence Parent. For most summits, the Proximate and Prominence Parents are the same peak, and in these cases, I list that peak name once in the Parent Column. When the Proximate and Prominence Parents are two different peaks, I list the Proximate Parent first followed by the Prominence Parent on a second line. Unranked summits still have parents.

  5. Isolation.
    The Great Circle distance between a summit and its Proximate Parent is the summit’s Isolation. I list this distance in miles in the Iso column. When a summit has different Proximate and Prominence Parents, I list the Great Circle distance to each parent adjacent to the parent names in the Parent column. By definition, the distance to the Proximate Parent will always be less than or equal to the distance to the Prominence Parent. The distance to the Proximate Parent is the summit’s Isolation, but I include the distance to the Prominence Parent as additional information.

  6. When two or more summits have the same elevation, they are ordered by decreasing Prominence. If there are peaks with the same elevation and prominence, then they are ordered by decreasing Isolation.

  7. I use the following general abbreviations:
    • & for and
    • aka for also known as
    • BC for British Columbia
    • BM for Benchmark
    • CAN for Canada
    • CI for Contour Interval
    • Cty for County
    • Elev for Elevation
    • Geo for Geographic
    • GUA for Guatemala
    • HP for Highpoint
    • IPWA for Indian Peaks Wilderness Area
    • Izta for Iztaccíhuatl
    • MEWA for Mount Evans Wilderness Area
    • Mt for Mount
    • Mtn for Mountain
    • Mtns for Mountains
    • Natl for National
    • Nev for Nevado
    • NM for National Monument
    • NP for National Park
    • Pk for Peak
    • Popo for Popocatépetl
    • Prom for Prominence
    • PT for Point
    • Quad for Quadrangle
    • Res for Reservoir
    • Rg for Range
    • RMNP for Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Spgs for Springs
    • St for State
    • Vol for Volcano
    • YK for Yukon
    Occasionally, I also abbreviate compass directions to save space.

  8. Range.
    The Rg column shows the peak’s Range as follows:
    • AB for Absaroka
    • AP for Aquarius Plateau
    • AR for Alaska
    • BCC for British Columbia Coast
    • BH for Bighorns
    • BF for Bullfrog Hills
    • BK for Black Mountains
    • BR for Bear River Range
    • CG for Chugach
    • CH for Cochetopa Hills
    • CM for Cottonwood Mountains
    • CS for Cascades
    • DH for Danforth Hills
    • DI for Dinosaur National Monument
    • DR for Deep Creek Range
    • EL for Elk
    • EM for Elkhead Mountains
    • FH for Fish Lake Hightop Plateau
    • FM for Funeral Mountains
    • FR for Front
    • GB for Great Basin
    • GH for Grand Hogback
    • GM for Grand Mesa
    • GO for Gore
    • GP for Great Plains
    • GR for Greenwater Range
    • GV for Grapevine Mountains
    • HE for Henry Mountains
    • LC for Last Chance Range
    • LS for La Sal Mountains
    • MO for Mosquito
    • MP for Markagunt Plateau
    • MV for Mesa Verde
    • MX for México
    • OL for Olympics
    • OM for Owlshead Mountains
    • PA for Panamint Range
    • PK for Park
    • PR for Pavant Range
    • PV for Pine Valley Mtns
    • RA for Rawah Range
    • RE for Rabbit Ears
    • RM for Rocky Mountains
    • RR for Raft River Mountains
    • RT for Retirement Range
    • SA for Saline Range
    • SC for Sangre de Cristo
    • SE for Saint Elias
    • SN for Snake Range
    • SP for South Park
    • SR for Sierra
    • SW for Sawatch
    • TE for Tenmile
    • TM for Tenmile-Mosquito
    • TS for Trans Sierra
    • TT for Tetons
    • TU for Tushar Mountains
    • SJ for San Juan
    • UI for Uintah
    • VM for Vasquez Mountains
    • WE for Wet
    • WM for White Mountains
    • WP for Wasatch Plateau
    • WR for Wrangell
    • WN for Wind Rivers
    • WS for Wasatch
    If there is no Rg column, then all the peaks on that list are in the same range. The Quadrangle column gives the USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle that shows the peak’s summit. The parent may be on a different quadrangle.

  9. The Sg column shows the peak’s sub range.
    CO Front Range sub range abbreviations:
    • BW for Boulder Watershed
    • CF for Colorado State Forest
    • CP for Comanche Peak Wilderness Area
    • IP for Indian Peaks Wilderness Area
    • JP for James Peak Wilderness Area
    • MU for Mummy Range
    • NE for Neota Wilderness Area
    • NS for Never Summer Wilderness Area or range
    • RM for Rocky Mountain National Park

    CO/NM Sangre de Cristo sub range abbreviations:
    • CU Culebra Range CO/NM
    • LW Latir Peak Wilderness Area NM
    • PW for Pecos Wilderness Area NM
    • WW for Wheeler Peak Wilderness Area NM

    UT Uinta sub range abbreviations:
    • UW for High Uintas Wilderness Area


    10.
  10. I use the traditional abbreviations for the US state and territory names.
    Scroll down for the Mexican state abbreviations.
    • AK for Alaska
    • AL for Alabama
    • AR for Arkansas
    • AS for American Samoa
    • AZ for Arizona
    • CA for California
    • CO for Colorado
    • CT for Connecticut
    • DC for District of Columbia
    • DE for Delaware
    • FL for Florida
    • GA for Georgia
    • GU for Guam
    • HI for Hawaii
    • IA for Iowa
    • ID for Idaho
    • IL for Illinois
    • IN for Indiana
    • KS for Kansas
    • KY for Kentucky
    • LA for Louisiana
    • MA for Massachusetts
    • MD for Maryland
    • ME for Maine
    • MI for Michigan
    • MN for Minnesota
    • MO for Missouri
    • MP for Northern Mariana Islands
    • MS for Mississippi
    • MT for Montana
    • NC for North Carolina
    • ND for North Dakota
    • NE for Nebraska
    • NH for New Hampshire
    • NJ for New Jersey
    • NM for New Mexico
    • NV for Nevada
    • NY for New York
    • OH for Ohio
    • OK for Oklahoma
    • OR for Oregon
    • PA for Pennsylvania
    • PR for Puerto Rico
    • RI for Rhode Island
    • SC for South Carolina
    • SD for South Dakota
    • TN for Tennessee
    • TX for Texas
    • UT for Utah
    • VA for Virginia
    • VI for U.S. Virgin Islands
    • VT for Vermont
    • WA for Washington
    • WI for Wisconsin
    • WV for West Virginia
    • WY for Wyoming


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  11. I use the ISO standard to abbrieviate Mexican State names as follows:
    • AGU for Aguascalientes
    • BCN for Baja California
    • BCS for Baja California Sur
    • CAM for Campeche
    • CHP for Chiapas
    • CHH for Chihuahua
    • COA for Coahuila
    • COL for Colima
    • DIF for Distrito Federal
    • DUR for Durango
    • GUA for Guanajuato
    • GRO for Guerrero
    • HID for Hidalgo
    • JAL for Jalisco
    • MEX for México
    • MIC for Michoacán
    • MOR for Morelos
    • NAY for Nayarit
    • NLE for Nuevo León
    • OAX for Oaxaca
    • PUE for Puebla
    • QUE for Querétaro
    • ROO for Quintana Roo
    • SLP for San Luis Potosí
    • SIN for Sinaloa
    • SON for Sonora
    • TAB for Tabasco
    • TAM for Tamaulipas
    • TLA for Tlaxcala
    • VER for Veracruz
    • YUC for Yucatán
    • ZAC for Zacatecas
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