White mountain four-thousand footers

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As Four-thousand footers (or "4ks") is a group of mountains in New England referred to protrude ft (1,219 m), the height of 4,000.

Mostly, "four-thousand footers" refers to the Appalachian Mountain Club's White Mountains Four-Thousand-Footers List . This list of peaks is also known as "Four-thousand footers of New Hampshire," or "The Four-thousand footers of the White Mountains". The AMC calls White Mountains list, but usually it is called New Hampshire list because they are not the Old Speck Mountain (1,271 m) in Maine (and the outside of the White Mountain National Forest ) but the White Mountains includes .

The AMC also has a list of New England 4000 footers, including peaks in Vermont and Maine (none in Massachusetts , Connecticut , or Rhode Island because the mountains are not high enough to qualify). Other lists of 4000-footers, not from the AMC, include the original list of four-thousand-foot mountains for peak-bagging: the 46 Adirondack High Peaks . Those who have climbed all of them will be accepted into the Adirondack Forty-Sixers or simply "46ers".

The AMC changed its 4000-footer lists when considering the criteria that were adjusted, with the White Mountains list increasing from 46 peaks in the 1950s to 48 (unchanged since 1982). The correct inclusion or exclusion of multiple peaks is still controversial.

The 48 are in the White Mountain National Forest and two of New Hampshire's northernmost counties , namely Coos County and Grafton Counties . All of the peaks except those of Mount Washington , Mount Moosilaukes, and the Cannon Mountains are on Forest Service- owned land , and the three exceptions are surrounded by it.

Notch height criteria

A Schartenhöhen criterion was introduced to exclude peaks that are considered to be neighboring peaks of larger mountains. For the AMC's 4000 footer lists, the minimum notch height is 200 ft (61 m). Earlier versions of the list called for 300 ft (91 m) notch height and 400 m of dominance .

Four Thousand Footer Club

An Appalachian Mountain Club committee serves as the hub for collecting the criteria and information that the peaks identify when visiting; it also maintains a list of the Four Thousand Footer Club members who have climbed all 48 peaks on foot between a motorized road with return or onward hike to another point. The first of these recognitions was in 1958.

Some climbers try (after climbing all 48 peaks) to continue with more difficult conditions. The club maintains a second list of those who have climbed each peak in winter (defined as the start and end of hiking between the time and date of the winter and summer solstices).

Other variants of reaching the 48 peaks that are not officially recorded include:

  • Reaching the summit in a specific order (e.g. alphabetically or by altitude),
  • Reaching the summit on a moonlit night
  • Reach the summit from any of the four cardinal points
  • Reach every peak in the same winter
  • Reaching each summit once a month (but not necessarily for twelve consecutive months)
  • Reaching combinations of peaks

The New Hampshire List

The following is the current list of the Four Thousand Footers of the White Mountains, with their respective heights (in feet and meters) in descending order. It should be noted that some of these names are not shown on maps (alternative names in brackets).

  1. Mount Washington : 6,288 ft (1,917 m)
  2. Mount Adams : 5,774 ft (1,760 m)
  3. Mount Jefferson : 5,712 ft (1,741 m)
  4. Mount Monroe : 5,384 ft (1,641 m)
  5. Mount Madison : 5,367 ft (1,636 m)
  6. Mount Lafayette : 5,260 ft (1,603 m)
  7. Mount Lincoln : 5,089 ft (1,551 m)
  8. South Twin Mountain : 4,902 ft (1,494 m)
  9. Carter Dome : 4,832 ft (1,473 m)
  10. Mount Moosilauke : 4,802 ft (1,464 m)
  11. Mount Eisenhower : 4,780 ft (1,457 m)
  12. North Twin Mountain : 4,761 ft (1,451 m)
  13. Mount Carrigain : 4,700 ft (1,433 m)
  14. Mount Bond : 4,698 ft (1,432 m)
  15. Middle Carter Mountain : 4,610 ft (1,405 m)
  16. West Bond : 4,540 ft (1,384 m)
  17. Mount Garfield : 4,500 ft (1,372 m)
  18. Mount Liberty : 4,459 ft (1,359 m)
  19. South Carter Mountain : 4,430 ft (1,350 m)
  20. Wildcat Mountain : 4,422 ft (1,348 m)
  21. Mount Hancock : 4,420 ft (1,347 m)
  22. Kinsman Mountain : 4,358 ft (1,328 m) ("South Peak")
  23. Mount Field : 4,340 ft (1,323 m)
  24. Mount Osceola : 4,340 ft (1,323 m)
  25. Mount Flume : 4,328 ft (1,319 m)
  26. Mount Hancock : 4,319 ft (1,316 m)
  27. Mount Pierce : 4,310 ft (1,314 m)
  28. Kinsman Mountain: 4,293 ft (1,309 m) ("North Peak")
  29. Mount Willey : 4,285 ft (1,306 m)
  30. Bondcliff : 4,265 ft (1,300 m) ("The Cliffs")
  31. Mount Zealand : 4,260 ft (1,298 m) ("Zealand Ridge")
  32. Mount Tripyramid : 4,180 ft (1,274 m) ("North Peak")
  33. Mount Cabot : 4,170 ft (1,271 m)
  34. East Peak Mount Osceola : 4,156 ft (1,267 m) ("East Peak")
  35. Mount Tripyramid: 4,140 ft (1,262 m)
  36. Cannon Mountain : 4,100 ft (1,250 m)
  37. Wildcat D Mountain : 4,070 ft (1,241 m) ("Wildcat Ridge")
  38. Mount Hale : 4,054 ft (1,236 m)
  39. Mount Jackson : 4,052 ft (1,235 m)
  40. Mount Tom : 4,051 ft (1,235 m)
  41. Mount Moriah : 4,049 ft (1,234 m)
  42. Mount Passaconaway : 4,043 ft (1,232 m)
  43. Owl's Head : 4,025 ft (1,227 m)
  44. Galehead Mountain : 4,024 ft (1,227 m)
  45. Mount Whiteface : 4,020 ft (1,225 m)
  46. Mount Waumbek : 4,006 ft (1,221 m)
  47. Mount Isolation : 4,004 ft (1,220 m)
  48. Mount Tecumseh : 4,003 ft (1,220 m)

The New England List

This list consists of the New Hampshire List and the following mountains:

4000 footers in Maine:

4000 footers in Vermont:

See also

Individual evidence

  • Smith, Steven; Dickerman, Mike (2001). The 4,000 Footers of the White Mountains . Littleton: Bondcliff Books. ISBN 1-931271-01-1 .
  • Gene Daniell and Steven D. Smith (editors) (2003). AMC White Mountain Guide, 27th edition . Appalachian Mountain Club Books. ISBN 1-929173-22-9 .

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