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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.
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ezabielski wrote: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.
jdorje wrote:
(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!
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jdorje wrote:
(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.
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