Arizona peak-bagging, county by county

[azdesertfather]

Just saw an old article in Arizona Highways listing the highest peaks in every county ... which counties have you done?

• • Maricopa: Browns Peak (7,657)
  • Coconino: Humphreys Peak (12,633)
  • Gila: Myrtle Point, Promontory Butte (7,470)
  • Mohave: Hualapai Peak (8,417)
  • Santa Cruz: Mt. Wrightson (9,453)
  • Yuma: Signal Peak (4,877)
  • Yavapai: Mt. Union (7,979)
  • Pima: Mt. Lemmon (9,081)
  • Navajo: Unnamed Point on Black Mesa, near Kayenta (8,168)
  • Cochise: Chiricahua Peak (9,759)
  • Apache: Mt. Baldy (11,403)
  • Graham: Mt. Graham (10,720)
  • Greenlee: Unnamed Point less than 0.25 mi off US 191, just N of mile marker 227 (9,441)
  • La Paz: Harquahala Mtn. (5,681)
  • Pinal: north slope of Rice Peak (7,575)

[chumley]

@joe bartels
I'm gonna update the links since things have changed over time.

User progress list
Handy map with county boundaries
Handy map with no boundaries (loads faster)

The funny thing is that I have 8 of them and only one was obtained for the purpose of hitting the highpoint (Greenlee). The rest just happened because I was hiking there anyway!

[BobP]

I have 9 done without trying 4 that don't show on my progress list.

[azbackpackr]

So irritating that people keep changing the name of Humphreys Peak to "Humphrey" and "Mount Humphrey's" and "Humphrey's Peak." The peak is named after Andrew Humphreys, who presumably felt no need to have an apostrophe in his surname. On that popular social Site-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named there is even a "Mount Humphrey's AZ" page. Sigh... No one looks at maps any more, or even at the SIGNS by the side of the trail!

[chumley]

:tt:
I met azbackpackr's old neighbor down the street in Eager. He did'nt care about apostrophe's.
;)

[BobP]

Also on the govt. USDA Forest Service Coconino forest section website


Humphrey’s Peak was named by G. K. Gilbert in 1873 after his superior officer Brig. Gen. Andrew Atkinson Humphreys. Humphreys had been a captain with the Ives Expedition in 1851 and evaluated the survey data of several expeditions that attempted to find routes for wagon roads and a railroad through the region. He later became Chief of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers.

[CannondaleKid]

No one looks at maps any more

But who is to say if any specific map is absolutely correct?
Both of the peaks which were the focus of my last two hikes were incorrect. For the latter, I think it was a simple transposition of digits, 3402 instead of 3042. And of course, before realizing this error I had already posted my YouTube video with the wrong name.

[azbackpackr]

:tt:
I met azbackpackr's old neighbor down the street in Eager. He did'nt care about apostrophe's.
;)

Apparently you like apostrophes well enough, putting them on plurals and such. Eagar, by the way, is also named after a family.

It's simple. It's Humphreys Peak because it's named after someone with the last name of Humphreys.

[FOTG]

@azbackpackr

As a history teacher I actually sympathize with you a little...everyone says Shay's Rebellion...not the case! The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays former captain in Continental Army who initiated the rebellion in Western Mass...correct way to state is Shays' Rebellion

Oh course half of my students are still trying to figure out why the French were fighting Indians in America during the French and Indian War..so does it really matter???

[FOTG]

@chumley
something tells me there were a few other things in life he didn't care about either..

[BobP]

Also from the Coco section website

“San Francisco Peak.” On many maps today, the official name is printed as “San Francisco Mountain"

[joebartels]

While Humphreys may not contain an apostrophe please note the following

Since its inception in 1890, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names has discouraged the use of the possessive form—the genitive apostrophe and the “s”. The possessive form using an “s” is allowed, but the apostrophe is almost** always removed. The Board's archives contain no indication of the reason for this policy.

**Since 1890, only five Board decisions have allowed the genitive apostrophe for natural features. These are: Martha's Vineyard (1933) after an extensive local campaign; Ike's Point in New Jersey (1944) because “it would be unrecognizable otherwise”; John E's Pond in Rhode Island (1963) because otherwise it would be confused as John S Pond (note the lack of the use of a period, which is also discouraged); and Carlos Elmer's Joshua View (1995 at the specific request of the Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names because, “otherwise three apparently given names in succession would dilute the meaning,” that is, Joshua refers to a stand of trees. Clark’s Mountain in Oregon (2002) was approved at the request of the Oregon Board to correspond with the personal references of Lewis and Clark.

At any rate give Elizabeth a break, at least she's on topic! It's not like she's posting GC road conditions in a Sedona thread.

[Jim]

I am the lone Navajo County voter, so far.

[FOTG]

@joe bartels

Wait so Waldon's TH on the South Rim is not at the end of Schnebly Road? that was the impression I got ;)

[FOTG]

@Jim_H

Are you referring to the entire voting population of Navajo County? I knew it was an apathetic electorate up there, but not that bad! must make for quick election results... ;)

[chumley]

@joe bartels
This website is absolutely riddled with errors.
These are but a small sample:
http://hikearizona.com/decoder=18
http://hikearizona.com/decoder=226
http://hikearizona.com/decoder=16346
http://hikearizona.com/decoder=1977
http://hikearizona.com/decoder=19070
http://hikearizona.com/decoder=545
http://hikearizona.com/decoder=616
http://hikearizona.com/decoder=17171

:STP:

[chumley]

I am the lone Navajo County voter, so far.

Though you may be the lone voter on the poll, the progress list shows that azpeavy has done it, and earlier in the thread johnr1 posted that he had accomplished the goal of all 15 in 2009.

[Jim]

I know, that was why I said voter. I was not the first HAZer to do it, either.

[PatrickL]

I'd like to hit Black Mesa in case anyone is heading up there in the future and wouldn't mind company. I still need to nab quite a few of these and I've been slacking for far too long.

[The_Eagle]

This website is absolutely riddled with errors.
These are but a small sample:

At least now that gives the crack Development Team something to do after lunch! ;)

[Jim]

I'd like to hit Black Mesa in case anyone is heading up there in the future and wouldn't mind company. I still need to nab quite a few of these and I've been slacking for far too long.

Hard to get with unfriendly locals, but with 2 or more people, and a gun ( I recommend protection out there) it is possible to use the description with my modification to come in from the east drainage. If you ever decide to go up, I can give you my number and you can call me for more info. That is easier than writing.

Off topic here, but worth reading for anyone considering BM using the description:
I had 3 separate incidents with 3 separate individuals or groups who drove up along side of me, while hiking or biking on graded dirt roads in view of town, and made subtle threats to me. Once while I was biking with my neighbors rez dogs in tow, going to the diversion dam, and twice while hiking near the mesa base. Never happened near homes or people's property. They just rolled alongside, asked me what I was doing out there, and told me I shouldn't be out there as it wasn't safe for me, or something like that. If I dropped that I worked at the clinic (their free healthcare place) that sometimes helped. Then, there was the woman who worked on another shift from mine at the clinic. Word got back to her that I hiked out there, and she logged on here several times and found my older triplogs and used those as places to complain about people I did not know, hiking near her home and blamed me, HAZ, and the description for this. I was never sure what to make of that, but it reinforced my beliefs about the place and many (not all) of the people out there. That was a rough year. I digress, you can hike that, but it is not best o do so cavalierly. At least not until above the housing. I would park at the McDonald's on Basha's and start from there.