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Old 10-05-2018, 06:30 PM   #1
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Colorado Fourteeners... Mountains to Climb

Colorado has many mountains peaks that are 14,000 feet or taller. This is measured at Sea Level, even though some of these mountains are only 2,000 feet above the valley below.
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Colorado has 53 peaks that are 14,000 feet and higher. Since the early 1900's the number of 14ers increased from 46 in 1923 and began to increase.

This is a three fold question. What was the Highest number of 14ers?

What is the current number of 14ers?

Which 14er was claimed to be 18,581 feet, as it was so... massive and impressive?

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Anyone with a USA address can claim this on October 8, 2018.

Otherwise, this will no longer be available after the 8th.
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I'll take a stab at it, no picture handy...

Highest number of 14ers was 54

Current number is 53

Would that supposedly 18000+ peak be Mt. Massive?
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I'll take a stab at it, no picture handy...

Highest number of 14ers was 54

Current number is 53

Would that supposedly 18000+ peak be Mt. Massive?
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Lt. Zebulon M. Pike reached Peak in 1806. He estimated the elevation at approximately... 18,581 feet. No more. No less. I guess. The expedition tried to climb to the top and made it only part way. The 'Peak' was given the name Pikes Peak, anyways. Today, 14,110 feet, less about five inches of Pikes Peak Granite I removed as my proof of doing what Pike could not... Drive to the top.

The expedition saw NO signs of other humans on their crossing eastern Colorado. That evening, while attempting to climb the yet, unnamed Pikes Peak across the entire Front Range for as far as they could see... were campfires. They, obviously, not very observant to miss all of the "Indian" signs while on the Prairie.

Even though it was cold where they camped. No one suggested a campfire to signal... where they were camped.

Long Mountain. Sierra de Almagre. Grand Peak. James Peak. His Peak. ... were other names given.

No one discovered the mountain. It had always been there. Any Indian could have pointed towards it.

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Ha, I suspected that it was Pike's Peak, as I too had heard the story that when ol' Zeb saw it, his party declared it unclimbable. I thought you were dropping a hint when you described the 18000+ peak as "massive and impressive."

About 25 years ago, there were 54 14ers, I am curious which one shrank since then.
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