My 2004 list (Dean)

My 2004 list (Dean)

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My 2003 list

2004 - Year two

2004 was another great year as I was able to visit over 70 highpoints during the year despite balancing a full time job in the mix. This was also a year where I was able to make some great trips with friends Bob and Dennis, aa couple lasting most of a week, others lasting over a long three day weekend.

The county highpointing quest continued full bore in 2004 and I made several trips into Idaho, California and Nevada with Bob and Dennis. However, I began to get into chasing prominence peaks thanks again to the influence of Bob who had basically become more enthusiastic about bagging peaks with prominence and county highpoints became secondary. Special memories from 2004 were the experiences of getting stuck in the mud 20 miles from a highway and suffering a broken finger on my attempt to go up
the Mountaineers route on Mt. Whitney. That injury kept me from getting a scheduled trip to Mt. Jefferson with Dennis and some other friends which was
a big loss for me since they made the summit and it was a strong team. On Mount Grafton in Nevada, I messed up my medial mediscus and that required almost two months of physical therapy but I tested it before the year was over on Yolo's Little Blue Peak. But all in all, 2004 was an outstanding year, filled with great memories and my second year as a peakbagger.

County Highpoints dominated 2004 as you can see from the chart in the section below with:
California - 27
Idaho - 18
Nevada - 8
Utah - 6
Washington - 2

Prominence peaks (not county highpoints)

2004 Prominence peaks
Date Peak Name Elevation Prominence
2-29 Dog Mountain WA 2948 1168
9-18 Fields Peak OR 7362 2322
9-24 Dixie Butte OR 7592 2312
9-24 Vinegar Hill OR 8120 2840
9-24 Big Lookout Mountain OR 7080 3080
9-25 Rock Creek Butte OR 9106 4466
9-25 Elkhorn Peak OR 8931 711


Utah's Flat Top Mountain is an ultra peak and Idaho's Snowbank Peak is also a prominence peak but both are included in the chart below. All of the above peaks were done with Bob and Dennis was involved in all but two of them. Bob and I did 29 of the highpoints together and Dennis and I did 27 together which indicates how fortunate I am to have great friends like
the two of them. I also did 13 solo and four with my wife. Her first peak with a register and benchmark was on Carpenter Peak in Sacramento California. She did a lot of the driving after I broke my finger on Mt. Whitney and it was a lot of fun to do those four with her.




San Mateo County Highpointwith Dennis
Tribute to a friendwith Bob
SP ers Bob Bolton and Dennis...near Elkhorn Pk



2004 County Highpointing Peaks

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2004 County Highpoint effort
Number Peak Name County State Elevation Date/TR Partner(s) P2K
1 Jerome Cohp liner Jerome ID 4760 Apr 16 w/Bob No
2 Bear Den Butte Mindoka ID 5104 Apr 16 w/Bob No
3 Lincoln Cohp ID 5950 Apr 16 w/Bob No
4 Gooding Cohp Gooding ID 6360 Apr 16 w/Bob No
5 Ada Cohp Ada ID 6000 Apr 18 w/Bob No
6 Two spots Payette ID 4763 Apr 18 w/Bob No
7 Latour Peak Kootenai ID 6408 May 15 w/Bob Yes
8 Benewah Cohp Benewah ID 6160 May 15 w/Bob No
9 Lewis Cohp Lewis ID 4795 May 16 w/Bob No
10 Nez Perce Cohp Nez Perce ID 5360 May 16 w/Bob No
11 Mount Rose Washoe NV 10776 May 28 w/Dennis Yes
12 Thunder Mountain Amador CA 9410 May 29 w/Dennis No
13 Granite Chief Placer CA 9006 May 29 w/Dennis Yes
14 Middle Sister Lyon NV 10570 May 31 w/Dennis No
15 Boundary Peak Esmerelda NV 13143 June 1 w/Dennis No
16 Sonora Peak Alpine CA 11459 June 2 w/Dennis No
17 Corral Ridge Calaveras CA 8170 June 2 solo No
18 Freel Peak El Dorado CA 10881 June 5 solo No
19 two spots Twin Falls ID 7840 June 25 w/Bob No
20 Cache Peak Cassia ID 10339 June 26 w/Bob Yes
21 Deep Creek Peak Power ID 8748 June 26 w/Bob Yes
22 Snowbank Peak Valley ID 8322 June 27 w/Bob Yes
23 Gem Cohp Gem ID 7971 June 27 w/Bob No
24 Mount Shasta Siskiyou CA 14162 July 3 w/Bob Yes
25 Mount Eddy Trinity CA 9025 July 4 w/Bob Yes
26 Lassen Peak Shasta CA 10457 July 5 w/Bob Yes
27 Eagle Peak Modoc CA 9892 July 6 w/Dennis Yes
28 Hat Mountain Lassen CA 8737 July 7 solo No
29 Mount Ingalls Plumas CA 8372 July 7 solo Yes
30 Mount Lola Nevada CA 9148 July 8 solo Yes
31 Mount Lola North Sierra CA 8844 July 8 solo No
32 North Gardner Okanogan WA 8956 July 18 w/Dennis Yes
33 Gray Wolf Ridge Clallam WA 7218 July 23 w/Dennis, Bill J Yes
34 Sawmill Mountain Kern CA 8818 July 29 solo No
35 Mount Pinos Ventura CA 8831 July 29 solo Yes
36 San Jacinto Peak Riverside CA 10834 Aug 1 solo Yes
37 Carpenter Hill Sacramento CA 828 Aug 4 w/wife No
38 Sugar Pine Peak Yuba CA 4825 Aug 5 w/wife No
39 Black Butte Glenn CA 7448 Aug 5 w/wife No
40 Anthony Peak Mendocino CA 6954 Aug 5 w/wife No
41 Fisher Boundary ID 7709 Aug 27 w/Bob Yes
42 Scotchman Peak Bonner ID 7009 Aug 28 w/Bob Yes
43 Rhodes Peak Clearwater ID 7009 Aug 29 w/Bob, Dan Robbins Yes
44 Bonneville Peak Bannock ID 9271 Sep 3 solo Yes
45 Bull Mountain Box Elder UT 9920 Sep 3 w/Bob Yes
46 Flat Top Mountain Tooele UT 10620 Sep 4 w/Bob, Adam,Brad Yes
47 Ibapah Juab UT 12057 Sep 6 w/Bob, Adam H Yes
48 Deseret Peak Tooele UT 11031 Sep 7 w/Bob Yes
49 Mount Nebo Utah UT 11928 Sep 9 solo Yes
50 liner Wasatch UT 10840 Sep 10 solo No
51 Desatoya Peak Churchill NV 9973 Oct 2 w/Dennis Yes
52 Bunker Hill Lander NV 11474 Oct 3 w/Dennis Yes
53 Diamond Peak Eureka NV 10640 Oct 4 w/Dennis Yes
54 Ruby Dome Elko NV 11387 Oct 5 w/Dennis Yes
55 Grafton Peak Lincoln NV 10990 Oct 7 w/Dennis Yes
56 Sutter Butte Sutter CA 2120 Dec 3 w/Dennis Yes
57 Little Blue Peak Yolo CA 3120 Dec 4 w/Dennis No
58 Mount Tamalpais Marin CA 2571 Dec 4 w/Dennis Yes
59 Mount Davidson San Francisco CA 927 Dec 5 w/Dennis No
60 Long Ridge San Mateo CA 2600 Dec 5 w/Dennis No
61 Mount McPherson Santa Cruz CA 3231 Dec 5 w/Dennis No
62 Mount Diablo Contra Costa CA 3849 Dec 5 w/Dennis Yes

Ultras done in 2004

2004 Ultra prominence peaks
Rank Peak Name Elevation Prominence
1 Mt. Shasta 14162 9762
2 Mount Eddy 9025 5105
3 Lassen Peak 10457 5217
4 San Jacinto 10804 8284
5 Flat Top 10620 5370
6 Ibapah Peak 12087 5247
7 Deseret Peak 11031 5811
8 Mount Nebo 11928 5488

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County highpointing map

This map lacks three additional county highpoints that I've done in Idaho but other than that, it is accurate.
County highpointing effort

Tweaking & 2005

I'm continually making changes to my SP efforts and so I will be adding more pictures to this page by inserting them in the date/TR column.

My next project will be putting together a 2005 list of summits visited.