Thirteener

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In mountaineering in the United States, a thirteener is a mountain that exceeds 13,000 ft (3,962 m) above mean sea level, similar to the more familiar "fourteeners" which exceed 14,000 ft (4,267 m). In most instances, the term "thirteeners" refers only to those peaks which are between 13,000 and 13,999 feet in elevation.

The importance of thirteeners is greatest in Colorado, which has the majority of such peaks in North America with over 600 of them. Despite the daunting number of peaks, a few dedicated peak baggers have successfully managed to climb all of Colorado's thirteeners. Thirteeners are also most prominent in those states whose highpoints fall between 13,000 and 13,999 feet. Regarding whether or not peaks in excess of 13,999 feet should be considered as "thirteeners", this article will count them as such for statistical purposes, but concentrate its focus on those peaks less than 14,000 feet since the higher peaks are already covered in the fourteeners list.

Not all summits over 13,000 feet qualify as thirteeners: only those summits qualify which are considered by mountaineers to be independent. Objective standards for independence include topographic prominence and isolation (distance from a higher summit), or a combination. However thirteener lists do not always consistently use such objective rules. A rule commonly used by mountaineers in the contiguous United States is that a peak must have at least 300 ft (91.4 m) of prominence to qualify. According to the Mountaineering Club of Alaska, it is standard in Alaska to use a 500 ft (152.4 m) prominence rule rather than a 300 foot rule. These are the standards applied for the lists below.

1 List of United States thirteeners by state
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] List of United States thirteeners by state

Thirteeners are found in nine U.S. states. This table summarizes their numbers based on each state's prominence criteria:

U.S. State	Thirteeners	Fourteeners	Highest 13er < 14,000 ft	Height
Colorado	637	53	Grizzly Peak	13,988 ft (4,264 m)
California	147	11	Mount Barnard	13,990 ft (4,264 m)
Alaska	41	20	Mount Hunter, South Peak	13,966 ft (4,257 m)
Wyoming	34	0	Gannett Peak	13,804 ft (4,207 m)
Utah	17	0	Kings Peak	13,528 ft (4,123 m)
New Mexico	3	0	Wheeler Peak	13,161 ft (4,011 m)
Hawaii	2	0	Mauna Kea	13,796 ft (4,205 m)
Nevada	1 (or 2)	0	Boundary Peak	13,140 ft (4,005 m)
Washington	2	2	none	-

The Crestone Group including
Columbia Point, Colorado

[edit] Colorado

Twilight Peak, Colorado

By the most detailed count, Colorado has 637 peaks which exceed 13,000 feet and meet the prominence criteria, of which 53 are fourteeners.^[1] The highest of them less than 14,000 feet feet are as follows (the rank includes higher peaks):

Rank	Mountain	Height	Range
54	Grizzly Peak	13,988 ft (4,264 m)	Sawatch Range
55	Stewart Peak	13,983 ft (4,262 m)	San Juan Mountains
56	Columbia Point	13,980 ft (4,261 m)	Sangre de Cristo Range
57	Pigeon Peak	13,972 ft (4,259 m)	San Juan Mountains
58	Mount Ouray	13,971 ft (4,258 m)	Sawatch Range
59	Ice Mountain	13,951 ft (4,252 m)	Sawatch Range
60	Fletcher Mountain	13,951 ft (4,252 m)	Tenmile Range
61	Pacific Peak	13,950 ft (4,252 m)	Tenmile Range

Amazingly, Grizzly Peak is not only the name of Colorado's highest thirteener, but the state has four other Grizzly Peaks plus one Grizzly Mountain on the list:

Rank	Mountain	Height	Range
130	Grizzly Peak	13,738 ft (4,187 m)	San Juan Mountains
142	Grizzly Mountain	13,708 ft (4,178 m)	Sawatch Range
145	Grizzly Peak	13,700 ft (4,176 m)	San Juan Mountains
302	Grizzly Peak	13,427 ft (4,093 m)	Front Range
415	Grizzly Peak	13,281 ft (4,048 m)	Sawatch Range

Lizard Head, Colorado

Other notable Colorado thirteeners not named "Grizzly" include:

Rank	Mountain	Height	Range
82	Crystal Peak	13,852 ft (4,222 m)	Tenmile Range
131	Argentine Peak	13,738 ft (4,187 m)	Tenmile Range
304	Mummy Mountain	13,425 ft (4,092 m)	Mummy Range
324	Parry Peak	13,391 ft (4,082 m)	Front Range
451	Hesperus Mountain	13,232 ft (4,033 m)	San Juan Mountains
515	Twilight Peak	13,158 ft (4,011 m)	San Juan Mountains
556	Lizard Head	13,113 ft (3,997 m)	San Juan Mountains

Mount Humphreys, California

[edit] California

California has the second greatest number of thirteeners with 147 of them, of which 11 are fourteeners (these counts exclude Mount Muir, which may not have 300 ft prominence).^[2] The highest under 14,000 feet are as follows (the rank includes higher peaks):

Rank	Mountain	Height	Range
12	Mount Barnard	13,990 ft (4,264 m)	Sierra Nevada
13	Mount Humphreys	13,986 ft (4,263 m)	Sierra Nevada
14	Mount Keith	13,975 ft (4,260 m)	Sierra Nevada
15	Mount Stanford, South Peak	13,973 ft (4,259 m)	Sierra Nevada

Mount Tom, California

Other notable California thirteeners include:

Rank	Mountain	Height	Range
25	Mount Darwin	13,831 ft (4,216 m)	Sierra Nevada
26	Mount Kaweah	13,802 ft (4,207 m)	Sierra Nevada
25	Mount Tom	13,652 ft (4,161 m)	Sierra Nevada
67	Montgomery Peak	13,441 ft (4,097 m)	White Mountains
119	Mount Ritter	13,140 ft (4,005 m)	Sierra Nevada
122	Red Slate Mountain	13,123 ft (4,000 m)	Sierra Nevada
125	Mount Lyell	13,114 ft (3,997 m)	Sierra Nevada
136	Mount Dana	13,057 ft (3,980 m)	Sierra Nevada

Parka Peak, Atna Peaks, and Mount Blackburn, Alaska

[edit] Alaska

Alaska has at least 41 thirteeners which meet its more stringent prominence criteria of 500 ft, of which 20 are also fourteeners. Different sources list varying numbers of 13,000+ ft peaks in the state,^[3]^[4]^[5] mainly because many of the peaks (especially those which are sub-peaks of a higher mountain) are unnamed and have no spot elevations given on the USGS topographical maps. The following list may still be missing a few peaks which should be included:

Mount Jarvis (north and main peaks), Alaska

Rank	Mountain	Height	Range
21	Mount Hunter, South Peak	13,966 ft (4,257 m)	Alaska Range
22	Atna Peaks	13,860 ft (4,225 m)	Wrangell Mountains
23	Regal Mountain	13,845 ft (4,220 m)	Wrangell Mountains
24	Mount Hayes	13,832 ft (4,216 m)	Alaska Range
25	Mount Cook	13,760 ft (4,194 m)	Saint Elias Mountains
26	Mount Sanford, South Peak	13,654 ft (4,162 m)	Wrangell Mountains
27	Mount Quincy Adams	13,615 ft (4,150 m)	Fairweather Range
28	Ocypete Peak	13,550 ft (4,130 m)	Saint Elias Mountains
29	East Kahiltna Peak	13,440 ft (4,097 m)	Alaska Range
30	Mount Natazhat	13,435 ft (4,095 m)	Saint Elias Mountains
31	Mount Jarvis	13,421 ft (4,091 m)	Wrangell Mountains
32	Mount Hunter, Middle Peak	13,400 ft (4,084 m) +	Alaska Range
33	Mount Bona, East Peak (Tressider Peak)	13,315 ft (4,058 m)	Saint Elias Mountains
34	Mount Hayes, South Peak	13,305 ft (4,055 m)	Alaska Range
35	Celeno Peak	13,300 ft (4,054 m) +	Saint Elias Mountains
36	Parka Peak	13,280 ft (4,048 m)	Wrangell Mountains
37	Mount Silverthrone	13,220 ft (4,029 m)	Alaska Range
38	Mount Marcus Baker	13,176 ft (4,016 m)	Chugach Mountains
39	Mount Jarvis, North Peak	13,025 ft (3,970 m)	Wrangell Mountains
40	Mount Moffitt	13,020 ft (3,968 m)	Alaska Range
41	Mount Zanetti	13,009 ft (3,965 m)	Wrangell Mountains

Gannett Peak, Wyoming

[edit] Wyoming

Wyoming has 34 thirteeners, but no fourteeners.^[6] Almost all of them are located in the remote Wind River Range. The highest of them are:

Rank	Mountain	Height	Range
1	Gannett Peak	13,804 ft (4,207 m)	Wind River Range
2	Grand Teton	13,770 ft (4,197 m)	Teton Range
3	Fremont Peak	13,745 ft (4,189 m)	Wind River Range
4	Mount Warren	13,722 ft (4,182 m)	Wind River Range
5	Mount Helen	13,620 ft (4,151 m)	Wind River Range
6	Turret Peak	13,620 ft (4,151 m)	Wind River Range
7	Mount Sacagawea	13,569 ft (4,136 m)	Wind River Range

Other notable Wyoming thirteeners include:

Rank	Mountain	Height	Range
20	Wind River Peak	13,192 ft (4,021 m)	Wind River Range
23	Cloud Peak	13,167 ft (4,013 m)	Big Horn Mountains

Kings Peak, Utah

[edit] Utah

Utah has 17 thirteeners, but no fourteeners.^[7] All of them are located in the remote Uinta Mountains near the Wyoming border, with none in the more famous Wasatch Range. Only 8 of these thirteeners even have official names, the others (including those ranked 5–9) are merely unnamed sub-peaks with sufficient prominence to qualify. The highest of the thirteeners are:

Rank	Mountain	Height	Range
1	Kings Peak	13,528 ft (4,123 m)	Uinta Mountains
2	South Kings Peak	13,512 ft (4,118 m)	Uinta Mountains
3	Gilbert Peak	13,442 ft (4,097 m)	Uinta Mountains
4	Mount Emmons	13,440 ft (4,097 m)	Uinta Mountains

Wheeler Peak, New Mexico

[edit] New Mexico

New Mexico has 3 thirteeners, all located within about 40 mi (64 km) of each other in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.^[8]

Rank	Mountain	Height	Range
1	Wheeler Peak	13,161 ft (4,011 m)	Sangre de Cristo Mountains
2	Truchas Peak	13,102 ft (3,993 m)	Sangre de Cristo Mountains
3	North Truchas Peak	13,024 ft (3,970 m)	Sangre de Cristo Mountains

Mauna Kea, Hawaii

[edit] Hawaii

Hawaii has two thirteeners,^[9] the great shield volcanoes which comprise the bulk of the Big Island of Hawaii.

Mountain	Height	Range
Mauna Kea	13,796 ft (4,205 m)	Island of Hawaii
Mauna Loa	13,680 ft (4,170 m)	Island of Hawaii

Boundary Peak, Nevada

[edit] Nevada

Nevada has only a single thirteener which meets the threshold for inclusion, Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park with an impressive 7,568 ft (2,307 m) of prominence. However, the highest point in the state is Boundary Peak, which is a sub-peak of California's Montgomery Peak with only 240 ft (73 m) of prominence.^[10]

Mountain	Height	Range
Boundary Peak	13,140 ft (4,005 m)	White Mountains
Wheeler Peak	13,063 ft (3,982 m)	Snake Range

[edit] Washington

Mount Rainier is the only mountain in Washington state which exceeds 13,000 ft, and it has two summits which meet the prominence criteria,^[11] both of which are included on the list of fourteeners.