August 1, 20261 min read

Colorado Peaks

A lot of people (myself included) really enjoy peakbagging. Checklists, while not the end all be all, can be really motivating and fun for the right kind of brain. They are inherently very arbitrary at the end of the day though. 14ers are only 14ers because of some random King's foot length (or something like that - don't fact check me). I was curious to see how much the Colorado peakbagging list changes as your threshold for height changes.

Prominence is the other thing that people like to talk about - how many vertical feet need to separate two peaks before they actually count as different peaks? 300 feet is the usual Colorado 14er standard but I wanted to be able to play with that too.

Try playing around with the thresholds while ignoring the arbitrary units on the axes and see where YOU would wind up if you were setting the rules yourself!