"Live" Listmaking

[John Kirk]

What might be able to compete for the closest match to the fun of watching grass grow? How about watching progress on listing the 300' prominences of the state of Utah:

http://listsofjohn.com/Quads/Utah/Utah.html

[TWorth]

Nice work guys.

Possibly even slower than grass growing is my rate of progress towards a P300 list for Montana. Missoula County is done, Mineral and Carter almost. John, any chance you could put up a page for this state with the data I have so far?

[John Kirk]

Sure Tim. I noticed you have a page up here:
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~worth/lists/

I can use that to update a page hosted here. Just let me know when there are changes.

[John Kirk]

And here is Montana:

http://www.listsofjohn.com/Quads/Montana/Montana.html

[Layne Bracy]

Good stuff!

John, there may not be an easy way to correct this, but the totals overestimate due to peaks belonging to 2-3 counties. The northern Utah counties have a lot of county liners.

[John Kirk]

Ah - I overlooked this aspect. Shouldn't be too hard to fix.

[Layne Bracy]

Wow - with 2 counties left to tabulate, Utah will be making a run at Colorado for total P300's and P1000's. I suspect Utah will fall short in both areas, but the drama is incredible!

[John Kirk]

Wow - with 2 counties left to tabulate, Utah will be making a run at Colorado for total P300's and P1000's. I suspect Utah will fall short in both areas, but the drama is incredible!

Here are the preliminary counts less Duchesne County:
UT All P300 P1k
6434 4206 396

CO All P300 P1k
6853 4347 425

Difference:
All P300 P1k
419 141 29

Considering Utah is a smaller state, peak density is higher. Of course, none of Utah is part of the Great Plains like 1/3 of CO.

[Layne Bracy]

Just sent you Duchesne, which had precisely 141 P300's. A tie? No, because a bunch were already included in Summit County. The P1000's fall short as well.

To compensate for the plains, Utah has a large basin around the Salt Lake. Of course, peaks do pop up out of the mud flats, even within the lake itself.

Looking forward to the stats, including the quad with the most ranked peaks!

[John Kirk]

Looking forward to the stats, including the quad with the most ranked peaks!

The top five quads:
42 - Springdale East
32 - The Guardian Angels
31 - Temple of Sinawava
27 - Rainbow Bridge
23 - Druid Arch

All in Washington or San Juan Counties - low peaks.

[Layne Bracy]

Surprising - that makes Springdale East the running leader from the 4 completed states(CO, NM, WY, UT), edging out Gannett Peak, WY.

[Layne Bracy]

Looks like Montana is progressing nicely. Those stats for Flathead are unbelievable! Over 100 P1000's in a single county?! I suppose there's a good chance one of the quads there beats the 42 P300 mark?

[John Kirk]

Looks like Montana is progressing nicely. Those stats for Flathead are unbelievable! Over 100 P1000's in a single county?! I suppose there's a good chance one of the quads there beats the 42 P300 mark?

There are 3 quads with 18 ranked peaks, but none with greater. What makes this area so dense is the frequency and structure of ranges. Instead of widely spaced North-South or East-West configurations, the ranges abound in all directions almost like a choppy sea storm as opposed to predictable series of waves arriving at shore.

The peaks are on average much more prominent - less "hilly". Average prominence for Flathead is 710', whereas average ranked peak prominence for CO is 588', UT is 572', WY is 563', NM is 540'.

[John Kirk]

Here is how Idaho is coming along:
http://www.listsofjohn.com/Quads/Idaho/Idaho.html

[TWorth]

I'd be willing to (slowly) contribute to the Idaho list - save a few of those panhandle counties for me. I'll start with Boundary and Bonner.

Some of those Idaho figures jump out, especially the P300 totals for Idaho and Custer counties. Both fall just short of current leader Flathead, MT for highest P300 total for any county in the west.

It's interesting that some of the P300/P1000 totals for these northern rockies counties far exceed, and in some cases almost double, the amounts for even the most mountainous CO counties.