CA 14ers and UT 13ers - Congrats Teresa

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CA 14ers and UT 13ers - Congrats Teresa

Postby John Kirk » Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:59 am

Sorry I missed this - looks like Teresa Gergen completed Utah's 17 ranked 13ers in mid-August and California's 14ers a few weeks ago.

Thus, Teresa has completed all 13k+ ranked peaks in Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Washington in addition to all 14k+ ranked peaks in the contiguous US.

Left for Teresa as of today to complete all ranked 13ers in the contiguous US:

California : 124 13ers
Wyoming: 29 13ers
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Postby Layne Bracy » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:18 pm

Way to go, Teresa! (She's also done the 2 ranked Hawaii 13ers.)

When she finished the Colorado 13ers, I told her I thought she could polish off both the Colorado 12ers AND the contiguous 13ers within a 10-year period. Three years later that looks well within reach! (Easy for me to say, I know. :)
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Postby Brian Kalet » Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:22 pm

Congrats!

Teresa and Kirk Mallory became the third and fourth people to finish the 67 contiguous US 14ers.
Teresa is also the first female to finish the contiguous US 14ers.

http://www.summitpost.org/list/218991/contiguous-us-14ers.html
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Postby TeresaGergen » Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:01 pm

Thanks, everyone! It was great to finally finish a list with Kirk, in CA. I owe a thankyou to Dwight and Sarah for letting us get Liberty Cap on our Rainier trip, or the Contiguous US 14er list wouldn't have happened.

Last year was the first year since I started finishing lists that I did *not* finish anything. It put me in a good position this year. If the weather cooperates just a little bit longer, I'm hoping the CO High 800 might still happen within a couple weeks.

I've spent enough time in CA and WY to know I want to keep going back. I will need help in WY, and I'm not sure how easy that will be to come by. And it's hard to make progress in CA -- 4 trips over 4 years out there for 25 ranked peaks over 13K. It's hard for me to feel committed at this point to a list that has so many questions attached. But if I plug away at it each year, maybe it will start feeling more realistic. Has to be better than the CO 11ers!
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Postby kirkmallory » Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:10 pm

Wow, I had no idea we were only the 2nd & 3rd to finish the ranked contiguous 14er list! Liberty Cap must be the reason. And it was great to finally finish a list with Teresa. Without her help, I wouldn't have been able to do that!

It will be interesting to see which list Teresa finishes first - the contiguous US 13ers, or the CO 11ers.
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Postby John Kirk » Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:30 pm

TeresaGergen wrote:I will need help in WY, and I'm not sure how easy that will be to come by.


Yes - WY will be a tough feat. The sheer number of CA peaks that are currently "unknowns" in terms of difficulty based on our knowledge set is also daunting.
Woodrow Wilson, The Sphinx, 13220, and Turrett definitely pose some technical issues. 13365 *might* be 4th class.

I'll definitely be going back.
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Postby Jeremy Hakes » Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:26 pm

Congrats, Teresa! More massive list completions under your belt! Nice work. Well done!
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Postby Mike Garratt » Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:45 pm

The list which fascinates on LOJ is the Contiguous 1000 US Peaks. Everything above 12865.
Of course one still has to deal with doing all those WY Wind River peaks. All 13ers or 12ers in the Winds are a challenge due to limited access.
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Postby MikeRodenak » Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:06 pm

Congrats Teresa! Way to go on the contiguous US 14ers list, I had no idea that list of finishers was such a short list!
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Postby Brian Kalet » Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:38 pm

kirkmallory wrote:Wow, I had no idea we were only the 2nd & 3rd to finish the ranked contiguous 14er list! Liberty Cap must be the reason.


You and Teresa are the 3rd & 4th to finish the ranked contiguous US 14er list.

I know of 4 people that are only missing Liberty Cap:

Charlie Winger
Melissa Winters
Mike Bromberg
Randy Winters
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Postby BarryRaven » Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:04 pm

Congrats Teresa!

What about New Mexico 12ers? Let me know as I'm doing them, unfortunately there are some obstacles. Big Costilla Massif is on private property and Pueblo Peaks are on Taos Pueblo land. Already been denied once for Big Costilla.

I am certainly no where near completion but I'll eventually get to them.
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Postby kirkmallory » Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:10 pm

It looks like Fred Johnson has all the ranked ones checked off, including Liberty Cap. Did we not notice this before, or did he recently check these off? I'm sure there are probably many more.
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Postby Brian Kalet » Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:08 am

It looks like Fred Johnson has all the ranked 14ers in WA and CA, but not in CO.
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Postby kirkmallory » Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:52 pm

Duh. I didn't think to look in CO.
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