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List "Colorado Reduced ORS Top 30" By bdloftin

Notes: This is Peaklist.org's list of the top 30 Colorado summits based on "omnidirectional relief and steepness (ORS), formerly known as spire measure, which measures a peak by height and steepness above local terrain, and lists based on reduced ORS (RORS), formerly known as reduced spire measure, which also includes a measure of the independence of a peak from higher-ranking peaks. These measures provide ways of measuring and ranking mountains which are different from both height and prominence."

It is similar to TWorth's average vertical drop in a 1 mile radius, except the reduced ORS metric rewards large, more moderately sloped peaks a bit more, as some of these have more independence than otherwise compared with closer, lower, similar ORS peaks.

In short, ORS or reduced ORS is often highly correlated with more "exciting" peaks, which look very visually prominent.

*Ragged Peak refers to its unranked 12480' south summit
*12768 refers to its unranked 12400' summit to the west

Neither of these have peak pages on LOJ.

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