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My 2003 list
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)
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.
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My next project will be putting together a 2005 list of summits visited.
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.
 with Dennis |  with Bob |  near Elkhorn Pk |
2004 County Highpointing Peaks
| 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 | LincolnID | 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 | |
This pic sums up my feelings
County highpointing map
This map lacks three additional county highpoints that I've done in Idaho but other than that, it is accurate.
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.