So I was browsing around the statistics leaders in all the categories recently and noticed that there are already some users with over 50 summits this year and I thought to myself...."How is that possible"????
To my dismay I looked at what peaks these people had climbed and noticed they were all mere foothills no more than 6500 feet in elevation in Colorado and this got me thinking of a suggestion.
Regarding the peakbaggers award, there should be an added filter similar to the one that filters out repeats. This filter however, will filter out all climbs of non-alpine summits (aka, peaks below treeline).
Now I'm not sure if there is any way to know which peaks are alpine or not as the treeline elevation is different in every mountain range but I don't really think someone can win a peakbaggers award by counting Green Mountain 365 times if said person runs up it every day.
John, is there a way of attaching an "alpine" or "non-alpine" status to all the peaks in the database? If so I think this filter should be added to all the stat categories.
I simply suggest this because I know there are other mountaineers out there that really only care about climbing alpine peaks getting high above treeline and don't climb non-alpine peaks.
Thanks