50 Most Prominent. 100 Most Prominent? 200 Most Prominent??

[JohnL]

My deepest apologies.

No apology required. Just a friendly discussion.

JohnL

 

[David Metsky]

No apology required. Just a friendly discussion.

I think that was a pun. I col foul!

 

[Papa Bear]

Here's the listing from the Prominence group, a sub group of the county high pointers group. (Note they tend to know about their members, or names that members have submitted, so obviously this is an inclomplete list. VFTTers could add a few more names)

http://www.cohp.org/prominence/records/usa.html


New England (VT, NH, ME, MA, CT, RI)

50! Arthur Josephson, Roy Schweiker, Richard Garland (Papa Bear); Pierre Lefebvre (Oncoman);
49 John Person, Dennis Crispo;

100! Roy Schweiker
200 Roy Schweiker has completed the top 150

Northeast States (VT, NH, ME, MA, CT, RI, NY)

50! Roy Schweiker;
47+ by the three completers of Northeast 3000-footer list of 770 peaks

54$ Roy Schweiker (hiked top 57 by prominence)

Here's their home page: http://www.cohp.org/prominence/

 

[RoySwkr]

The use of "Finest" is someone else's convention and not mine. I would much prefer "50 most prominent..." but I just figured that I'd stick with convention but I wasn't making any judgment really.

I think we owe the term to Andy Martin who began by popularizing county highpointing, then moved to "prominence", and last I heard was among other things trying to visit every spot elevation on the USGS quads nearest his home in Tucson. While the group as a whole settled on "prominence" as the most descriptive (although not perfect) term, he called his first list "Fifty Finest" for its alliterative value and this use was extended to less euphonous lists of 100 etc.

As of now the only official/published lists for this area are the Northeast P2k of 54/57 and the New England 50. People claiming higher totals are merely speculating on what peaks other lists might include.

Discussion on creating prominence lists can be found on the Yahoo prominence group, I personally found the easiest way was to take a map similar to a DeLorme Atlas and write summit and col elevations from USGS maps on it. After you think you are done, you will doubtless find that some cols need to be "swapped".

 

[bigmoose]

Okay, Dave Metsky, where did you hide the Northeast US reduced spire list? As Injektilo indicates, the web address no longer accesses this list. Where can it be found now? I printed out a copy a couple of years ago, and it's a great list. I'm sure other baggers would be interested.

 

[RoySwkr]

Okay, Dave Metsky, where did you hide the Northeast US reduced spire list? As Injektilo indicates, the web address no longer accesses this list. Where can it be found now?

I don't think DM is involved, try AM
http://www.peaklist.org/spire/lists/ne-us-50.html

It is possible that nobody has climbed all 50, I am short 3 in the Adk and climbers of KI Saddleback were rare at one time. Some 115 types may have skipped N Carter and S Peak of Katahdin.

 

[Papa Bear]

I don't think DM is involved, try AM
http://www.peaklist.org/spire/lists/ne-us-50.html

It is possible that nobody has climbed all 50, I am short 3 in the Adk and climbers of KI Saddleback were rare at one time. Some 115 types may have skipped N Carter and S Peak of Katahdin.

I guess I never saw that list before. I have all the NE ones except Kearsarge North and Chocorua in NH (sorry!), and Pisgah in Vt. Now where the h%ll is that??. As for Mt. Blue and the "other" Saddleback, you can have them (although they both have survey marks).

Ironically, as a resident of NY, I have NONE of the NY peaks (shame on me ).

Nice to see the Spencers appear on another list. Little Spencer is an awesome climb.

 

[dr_wu002]

New List!

Peaks that Roy hasn't climbed!



Let's see, Roy: have you ever climbed Pomeroy Mountain in Western Mass? Southampton, I believe.

-Dr. Wu

 

[skiguy]

I guess I never saw that list before. I have all the NE ones except Kearsarge North and Chocorua in NH (sorry!),

Let us know when you come to NH again. Both could be bagged in a day and both have fine views!

 

[sapblatt]

Best Trails List?

How about a list of the best trails??
Getting much more into nice trails lately than the summits.
I seem to spend about 8-10 hours on a hike - I am lucky if 20 minutes are spent on a summit, and even if it is on a summit, half the time it is in the clouds...so the 9:45 I spend on the trail is really where I want it to be nice, or fine, or dare I say - prominent?

 

[DougPaul]

I have all the NE ones except Kearsarge North and Chocorua in NH (sorry!),

Two of the nicer peaks...

Kearsarge North has a fire tower and is in "just the right place" and
Chocorua has a nice rocky summit that sticks out above the trees.

Doug

 

[RoySwkr]

Aaron & I have agreed on a list of the ME P1k, and his version is posted at
http://peaklist.org/USlists/Maine1000.html

I have been to the first 50, but the next 49 are up for grabs

Tumbledown 3588 is a good candidate for #100

 

[Amicus]

I have been to the first 50, but the next 49 are up for grabs

At #61: Bill Merrill Mt. With that kind of head-start, I'm bound to go for the remainder. I remember your "trail conditions" report of your hike to that obscure (until now) summit, so you were not signifying above that you hadn't climbed any of those 49.

 

[RoySwkr]

I remember your "trail conditions" report of your hike to that obscure (until now) summit, so you were not signifying above that you hadn't climbed any of those 49.

So as not to confuse anybody, I have climbed over half of the 49 including one that used to be #50 on my list until Aaron found one with a lower col, fortunately I had climbed the replacement also. However I have climbed only 2 in the past year so at that rate the race is wide open. Not so in VT where I may finish within a year and GP may have been done years ago, and to make it harder you need to make your own list.