Symbol Rock and Twin Mountain

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Symbol Rock and Twin Mountain

Postby ChrisRoberts » Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:41 pm

I was looking around for some good early season stuff on Joe Grim's awesome site and found mention of two named features not on LOJ, "Symbol Rock" and "Twin Mountain" in the Cherokee Park SWA north of Fort Collins. You can see pictures here: http://www.joeandfrede.com/colorado/elliott/elliott.htm

I did a little more research and found on this site (http://www.coloradohikingtrails.net/wiki/Cherokee_Park_State_Wildlife_Area-Lower_Unit) confirmation that the two are mentioned in the book Rabbit Creek Country which has excerpts here: http://jonthiem.com/Homepage/Rabbit_Creek.html

Using topos, satellite images and pictures of the farmhouse, along with Joe's super useful google maps trail system ( http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=http:%2F%2Fwww.joeandfrede.com%2Fcolorado%2Fmisc_trip_reports%2Fall_hikes.kmz&ie=UTF8&t=p&ll=40.457397,-105.540161&spn=0.835935,1.098633&z=10&source=embed) to confirm that Symbol Rock is the large face jutting out into the valley about a half mile east from the farmhouse, the highest contour at 6800'.

According to Joe's trail tracks and pictures, Twin Mountain is then the tiny 6600 contour just a few hundred feet south of the farmhouse.

Is this sufficient info to get these two into LOJ?
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Re: Symbol Rock and Twin Mountain

Postby ChrisRoberts » Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:52 pm

Looks like the coordinates are 40.8306N 105.3566W for Symbol Rock and 40.8235N 105.3635W for Twin mountain
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Re: Symbol Rock and Twin Mountain

Postby JoeGrim » Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:56 am

If I recall correctly, John's rule is that in order to include an unnamed, unranked peak on LOJ, it must be named either in a book or on an official map. Rabbit Creek Country is definitely a book (though a boring one, IMO), so hopefully these peaks can be added. Now I just have to finally climb Symbol Rock. Thanks for advertising our website, by the way. :-)
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Re: Symbol Rock and Twin Mountain

Postby John Kirk » Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:16 pm

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Re: Symbol Rock and Twin Mountain

Postby ChrisRoberts » Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:23 pm

Great, glad they can be represented! I know I've seen some other Larimer county stuff in books, but I cant think of any now. I'll keep you posted. Thanks for all you're hard work John!

And Joe, I find myself on your site all the time. There isnt a better resource for this kind of obscure stuff out there. I'd never miss a chance to spread the word
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Re: Symbol Rock and Twin Mountain

Postby mikeofferman » Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:46 pm

Keep adding to the unranked list! More reason to get out there and have fun!
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