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Originally Posted by Belegedhel
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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