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Roger J. Wendell
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Other Peaks that I've Climbed

Me on top of Bergen Peak (2,960 metres) after a spring snowstorm

This page is going to be a long work-in-progress as I didn't think of creating until I was 67-years-old in July, 2023. My guess is that I had hiked and climbed about 500 different peaks and summits before then! (not counting my 1,200 ascents of Mount Morrison by that age and dozens of other mountains that I repeated many times as well...)   I started creating climbing pages with the 14ers in my early 50s. I then started adding the 12ers, 13ers, and higppoints pages in my early 60s. Prior to that I had completed countless 5ers, 6ers, 7ers, etc. that I had summited throughout my life but never recorded.   I climbed all of those as a boy in California, while on military duty in Hawai'i, and as a young man, adult, and then elder in Colorado. I suspect I'll never come close to piecing it all together but will try and record those I can remember or reference from other sources as time permits...

NOTE: LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) was put into use many decades after I started hiking and climbing. LIDAR is a more accurate way of measuring the Earth's surface and, as such, has changed what was believed to be the elevation of many mountains and highpoints. As a result, the "prominence" (at least 300 feet above a connecting saddle) of many mountains has changed along with their elevations. A personal example, for me, is Republican Mountain - a previously "unranked" 12er near Silver Plume that I climbed in 2022 after learning that LIDAR had determined it now had 312 feet of prominence. Peak 8, near Breckenridge is another personal example of change brought on by LIDAR. When I originally climbed Peak 8 I believed it to be a 12er, only to learn later that it's actual elevation is 13,005 feet! So, in summary, many of the elevations you see on my pages may not (yet) be accurate - requiring an update someday in the future as time permits!

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Click Here for my 12ers page...

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Click Here for my page on highpoints...

Click Here for my general notes Climbing and Mountaineering.

11ers

1. Chief Mountain (11,713 ft), Front Range, Colorado - many times, even leading it for the CMC on May 26, 2014
2. Estes Cone (11,009 ft) Front Range, Colorado - October 27, 2004 [with Linda Jagger, Janet Czyzewski, and Ania]
3. Mestaa'ėhehe Mountain, formerly Squaw Mountain (11,500 ft), Front Range, Colorado - many times, evem leading it for the CMC on May 26, 2014
4. Monarch Ridge (11,912 ft) Sawatch Range, Colorado - July 02, 2023 [with Randy Claude Neumann]
5. Twin Sisters Peaks, East (11.429 ft) Front Range, Colorado - April 12, 2008 [led by Linda and Tom Jaggeer]
6. Windy Peak (11,970 ft) Sawatch Range, Colorado - June 11, 2005 [Dave Callais' CMC lead]

10ers

7. Deer Mountain (10,027 ft), Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado - June 16, 2018 (My CMC lead to fill-in for Martin Berger at his request)

9ers

8. Emerald Mountain (9,234 ft), Estes Park, Colorado - September 15, 2002 (with Steve Farley)
9. Herman, Mount (9,068 ft), Front Range, Colorado - December 23, 2018 (Grover Cleveland's CMC lead)
10. Legault Mountain (9,074 ft), Front Range, Colorado - July 14, 2019 (Suzy Allexan's CMC moon-rise hike)
11. Lemon, Mount (9,166 ft), University of Arizona's SkyCenter Observatory - June 12, 2007 (with Myrna Murphy).

8ers

12. Animas Mountain (8,180 ft) La Plata County, Colorado - November 03, 2010
13. Bennett Mountain (8,051 ft) Front Range, Colorado - December 14, 2019 (Grover Cleveland's CMC trip lead)
14. Genesee Mountain (8,272) Front Range, Colorado - many times for the Colorado QRP Club's annual picnic, POTA (Parks on the Air) and SOTA (Summits on the Air )
15. Green Mountain (8,145 ft) Boulder, Colorado - a dozen times over the years...
16. Oil Spring Mountain (8,580 ft) Rio Blanco County, Colorado - September 29, 2018 (Steve Bonowski's CMC Conservation trip lead with Kaila Hood, an aid to Congresswoman Diana DeGett)
17. Sheep Mountain (8,450 ft) Larimer County, Colorado - May 31, 2003 (Sheryl Randall's CMC trip lead)
18. South Boulder Peak (8,550 ft) Front Range, Colorado - April 29, 2000 (CMC lead by Rico Argentati)

7ers

19. Morrison, Mount (7,881 ft) Front Range, Colorado - 1,200 times as of July, 2023
20. Falcon, Mount (7,856 ft) Front Range, Colorado - dozens of times as of July, 2023

6ers

21. Garfield, Mount (6,777 ft) Mesa County, Colorado - April 27, 2011
22. Green Mountain (6,851 ft) Front Range, Colorado - 175 times as of July, 2023
23. South Table Mountain (6,336 ft) Golden, Colorado - December 20, 2023 (Wayne Howell's CMC lead)

5ers

24. Wilson, Mount (5,710 ft) San Gabriel Mountains, California - over a dozen times up until mid 1972

4ers

26. Two Buttes (4,710 ft) Prowers County, Colorado - December 17, 2023

3ers

2ers

27. Hieizan, Mount (2,282 ft) on the border between the Kyoto and Shiga Prefectures, Japan - July 12, 2017
28. Sajikigatake, Mount (2,939 ft) on the border between the Kyoto Prefectures, Japan - July 11, 2017 (I hiked much of it barefoot and had to remove four leaches from my feet after crossing the stream...)

1ers

29. Hoosier Hill (1,257 ft), Indiana state highpoint - October 18, 2015
30. Daimonji-yama, Mount (1,492 ft), Kyoto, Japan - July 10, 2017
31. Tempe Butte aka O'odham: ʼOidbaḍ Doʼag (1,499 ft), Maricopa County, Arizona - March 01, 2014 (with Mark Silas, Dave Bower, and Chuck Cummings while we were on a layover in Phoenix on our to my CMC lead up Orizaba)

Storm Peak, Front Range, Colorado - Phil, Randy, and Roger

Unranked (less than 300 foot rise)

32. Bear Peak (8,463 ft) Boulder, Colorado - Half Dozen times
33. Bergen Peak (9,714 ft) Front Range, Colorado - Dozens of times as of July, 2023 (including many winter ascents)
34. Carbon, Mount (5,772 ft), Bear Creek Lake Park, Colorado - many times on bicycle (I have not yet walked up it...)
35. Flatiron, First (7,300 ft) Boulder, Colorado - many times (once without clothing...)
36. Flatiron, Second (7,140 ft) Boulder, Colorado - many times
37. Flatiron, Third (7,220 ft) Boulder, Colorado - many times ("free soloed" it a few times alone, with Kevin Freezen, and with Jeff Wind in the 1990s)
38. Flatiron, Fourth (7,630 ft) Boulder, Colorado - a couple of tiems in the 80s and 90s (last time was with Jack Dennis's CMC group and co-leader Bob Montok on 11-09-1996)
39. Flatiron, Fifth (7,500 ft) Boulder, Colorado - a couple of times in the 80s and 90s (last time was with Rene Kupfer's CMC group on 09-15-2001)
40. Goat Mountain (7,797 ft) Front Range, Colorado - November 02, 2003 (with Doug Cook and Greg Olson)
41. Leavenworth Mountain (11,100 ft) - Front Range, Colorado - October 06, 2018 (Norm Arlt's CMC lead)
42. Liberty Cap (5,910 ft) Front Range, Colorado - November 11, 2022
43. North Sheep Mountain (8,315 ft), Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado - May 26, 2019 (Grover Celevland's CMC lead)
44. Plymouth Mountain (7,283 ft) Front Range, Colorado - December 05, 2011 (Steve Bonowski's CMC lead)
45. Spruce Mountain (7,617 ft) Douglas County, Colorado - December 26, 2018 (CMC lead by Gina Morelli and Mike O'Conner with Dean Waits identifying Culturally Modified Trees)
46. Storm Peak (9,201 ft) Front Range, Colorado - at least three times, the last was on Steve Bonowski's CMC Conservation hike on September 7, 2019
47. Sunflower, Mount (4,041) Kansas state highpoint - March 13, 2014
48. Tahana Mountain (11,958 ft) Park County, Colorad - March 13, 2014 (while on Stan Moore's CMC lead)
49. Twin Owls, The (8,789 ft) Front Range, Colorado

Some Trailheads:

Mount Evans Wilderness, Colorado       Ute Creek Trailhead, Lost Creek Wilderness

Arizona Snowbowl (for Humphreys Peak) N 35° 19.876' W 111° 42.697' 9,278 feet 2,828 metres Bartlett Trailhead, Greenhorn Wilderness, Colorado N 37° 52.703' W 104° 57.491' 8,000 feet 2,438 metres Berthoud Pass trailhead - US Highway 40 Berthoud Pass summit N 39° 47.902' W 105° 46.563' 11,307 feet 3,446 metres Borah Peak Trailhead (at the little cattle protected entrance through the wooden fence) N 44° 07.954' W 113° 50.042' 7,400 feet 2,255 metres Continental Divide Trail at Henderson Mine Road, Colorado N 39° 44.260' W 105° 51.219' 10,496 feet 3,199 metres Thomas Lakes Trail 1958, Elks Range, Colorado (for Mount Sopris) N 39° 18.236' W 107° 07.478' 8,540 feet 2,603 metres Ute Creek trailhead, Lost Creek Wilderness, Colorado N 39° 11.885' W 105° 33.212' 8,750 feet 2,667 metres

Prominence, a Definition:

In topography, "prominence" is the height of a mountain or hill's summit by the vertical distance between it and the lowest contour line encircling it and no higher summit - Prominence is a measure of the independence of a summit. Only summits with a sufficient degree of prominence are regarded as independent mountains. For example, the world's second-highest mountain is K2 (height 8,611 metres, prominence 4,017 metres). While Mount Everest's South Summit (height 8,749 metres, prominence about 10 metres) is taller than K2, it is not considered an independent mountain because it is a subsummit of the main summit (which has a height and prominence of 8,848 metres).

Yosemite Decimal System

The Yosemite Decimal System (YDS) is a three-part system used for rating the difficulty of hikes and climbs. YDS is primarily used by mountaineers in the United States and Canada. However, there are many different rating systems used around the world. Examples include the British trad grade, the French sport grade, and the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation's (UIAA) alpine grade. As for the YDS, it was first devised by members of the Sierra Club in Southern California in the 1950s. YDS was a refinement of earlier systems, particularly those developed in Yosemite Valley.

Classification of climbs can vary quite a bit depending on location and history. Indoor gym ratings tend to be inflated compared to outdoor ratings. Ratings tend to be lower in outdoor areas where climbing routes were developed in earlier years. Guidebooks have often raised the ratings on older climbs to make them more comparable to newer ratings. The YDS grade system also involves an optional Roman numeral grade that indicates the length and seriousness of the route. The grades are:

Tired hikers on Mount Fuji (12,388 ft)

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