Talk:Sangre de Cristo Mountains
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[edit] Redirect fix
I removed the redirect to Talk:Sangre de Cristo Range since the division between the two articles is pretty well established now. Comments about the Colorado portion (north of La Veta Pass) should go into Talk:Sangre de Cristo Range. -- Spireguy 02:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] List of peaks
I'm not happy with the list as it now stands. This is a whole grab-bag of issues that probably were even worse before this list was made but should be fixed while there's a few editors looking at this
- Prominence is not the primary criteria for peaks, though it is a worthwhile piece of data.
- The 500-meter cutoff is also quite arbitrary as meters are not even used in Colorado; the cutoff that IS used is 300 feet but this is not always enforced for historical reasons (see Challenger Point). Imposing a strict cutoff of any sort will ignore some important peaks (including 14ers) and I doubt you have a source to show that there are not *unnamed* peaks that should be on the list by that criteria.
- The subrange entry includes Sierra Blanca as one of the possibilities. I've seen different sites refer to the Sierra Blanca as part of the Northern Sangres or as their own subrange, I do not know what the USGS says about it. However my main problem is that there is no article about the Sierra Blanca, only one about Blanca Peak which isn't the same thing at all. That and the Sierra Blanca is not listed in this article as being one of the subranges!
Perhaps more to come. — jdorje (talk) 01:14, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Prominent peaks is a list of the most topographically prominent peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- Topographic prominence is almost universally used as a selection criteria for mountain peaks. Commonly used prominence cutoffs include 100 feet (30.480 m), 300 feet (91.440 m), 100 meters (328.084 ft), 500 feet (152.400 m), 250 meters (820.210 ft), 500 meters (1,640.420 ft), and 1,000 meters (3,280.840 ft). A minimum topographic prominence of 500 meters is commonly used as a criteria for major mountain peaks. If you wish to use a shorter minimum prominence criteria such as 300 feet, then you need to also use a minimum elevation criteria such as 14,000 feet.
| Rank | Mountain Peak | Subrange | Elevation | Prominence | Isolation | Eminence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blanca Peak[1] | Sierra Blanca | 14,351 feet 4374 m |
5,326 feet 1623 m |
103.4 miles 166.4 km |
2.7 sq.mi. 7.101 km² |
| 2 | Crestone Peak[1] | Crestones | 14,300 feet 4359 m |
4,554 feet 1388 m |
27.4 miles 44.1 km |
2.3 sq.mi. 6.050 km² |
| 3 | Crestone Needle[1] | Crestones | 14,203 feet 4329 m |
437 feet 133 m |
0.4 miles 0.7 km |
0.2 sq.mi. 0.577 km² |
| 4 | Kit Carson Peak[1] | Crestones | 14,171 feet 4319 m |
1,005 feet 306 m |
1.3 miles 2.1 km |
0.5 sq.mi. 1.323 km² |
| 5 | Humboldt Peak[1] | Crestones | 14,070 feet 4288 m |
1,184 feet 361 m |
1.4 miles 2.3 km |
0.6 sq.mi. 1.548 km² |
| 6 | Culebra Peak[1] | Culebra Range | 14,053 feet 4283 m |
4,827 feet 1471 m |
35.5 miles 57.1 km |
2.4 sq.mi. 6.302 km² |
| 7 | Ellingwood Point[1] | Sierra Blanca | 14,048 feet 4282 m |
322 feet 98 m |
0.5 miles 0.8 km |
0.2 sq.mi. 0.420 km² |
| 8 | Mount Lindsey[1] | Sierra Blanca | 14,048 feet 4282 m |
1,522 feet 464 m |
2.3 miles 3.6 km |
0.8 sq.mi. 1.986 km² |
| 9 | Little Bear Peak[1] | Sierra Blanca | 14,043 feet 4280 m |
357 feet 109 m |
1.0 miles 1.6 km |
0.2 sq.mi. 0.466 km² |
- The National Geodetic Survey uses meters exclusively because of the confusion between the U.S. survey foot = 0.3048006096 meter and the international foot = 0.3048 meter. Please see foot.
- Sierra Blanca or Mount Blanca is the massif that includes Blanca Peak. Please see Sierra Blanca.
Please let me know of any 500 meter prominence peak that is not on this list. --Buaidh 13:25, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] cool public domain photos
here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/sangredecristo/ Northwesterner1 (talk) 07:23, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
