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The votes are in. You have voted by hiking 'em, shooting 'em, and rating 'em. I have compiled the HAZ TOP 20 from your votes.
So just like college football polls that generate lots of controversy. Here is another poll to argue over.
With almost 10,000 triplogs, almost 30,000 photos and almost 700 hikes rated, I have good info to derive the HAZ TOP 20.

No surprise - in August hikes from the cool weather conferences moved up, while hikes from the warm weather conferences moved down.
When the weather cools down, I suspect that these trends will reverse.
West Fork, Humphreys and West Clear Creek moved up in the polls while Black Mesa - Superstitions dropped 5 spots and fell out of the top 20.
Flatiron continues to be the Tiger Woods of hikes. Other spots were very close and I had to go to a tiebreaker.

So without further ado, for your arguing pleasure, here is the HAZ TOP 20.
HIKE VOTES Tie Breaker
 Flatiron 1747
 West Fork 1741
 Peralta Trail 1740
 Humphreys Summit Trail 1739 163
 Brown's Peak 1739 109
 Havasu Canyon 1737
 Fossil Springs Trail 1731
 Camelback Summit via Echo 1728
 Horton Creek Trail 1722
 Piestewa Peak Summit Trail 1719
 Bright Angel 1714 94
 Barnhardt Trail 1714 69
 Rogers Canyon 1710 65
 West Clear Creek Trail #17 1710 58
 Hunter Trail 1709 84
 Kaibab - South Rim 1709 80
 Boynton Canyon 1709 72
 Bell Trail 1704
 Inner Basin Trail 1703
 Tonto Narrows 1702

Just like the BCS poll, other than telling you that these results are derived strictly from your votes, my algorithms are a secret.
Now I'm going "camping" at my favorite spot in Sedona and will be out of computer range.

funny how those are the areas i tend to avoid

Been there and done most of them.

:mrgreen:

I've done 16 on the list. Alot of good ones on there

Only nine for me. I'm glad I've been to each of them, but I do prefer the lower-traffic areas.

8 for me. Maybe 9. I think I hiked the West Fork when I was a kid, but I'm not positive.

I've done 13 on the list. It's funny though, because each hike I do becomes my favorite until my next hike.

Bryan

I've done 10- but I've done many of them a few times. I'd rate the ascents as my favorites- Humphreys and Browns, but they are all great.

I got 12 of them, do you get more points for multiple times?

davis2001r6 wrote:I got 12 of them, do you get more points for multiple times?

You don't but the hike does. And the number of triplogs on the hike is the tiebreaker. So just like Chicago, you can vote as many times as you want.

I was somewhat surprised in some of the results. Almost 66% of the triplogs were on 100 hikes. Almost 81% of the triplogs were on 200 hikes. This is out of almost 860 hikes on HAZ.

I can declare that I have only been on two of these top 20! 66% on just 100 hikes? That's pretty wild.

PageRob wrote:. . .66% on just 100 hikes? That's pretty wild.

Even wilder, these Top 20 hikes represent almost 30% of the triplogs on "Registered" hikes on HAZ. "Registered" hikes are hikes that are listed in the alphabetical listing. Hikes like your hikes of Kaibab NF or Utah or Tim's hikes of Whitney aren't "Registered" hikes under the alphabetical listings and are not counted in the stats. I just don't have any efficient way to pull these special hikes. So they are not factored into either the numerators or denominators. And I wouldn't count Utah or California hikes anyway. =;

Piestewa Peak Summit and Camelback Summit (both Echo & Cholla) represented almost 9.5% of the triplogs on "Registered" hikes.

al1inaz wrote: Even wilder, these Top 20 hikes represent almost 30% of the triplogs on "Registered" hikes on HAZ. "Registered" hikes are hikes that are listed in the alphabetical listing.

I plead guilty, guilty, guilty to not logging most of my hikes. I think I've only logged one, and I don't think it was in the Top 20 (which I found surprising).

big_load wrote:I plead guilty, guilty, guilty to not logging most of my hikes. I think I've only logged one, and I don't think it was in the Top 20 (which I found surprising).

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I never knew nobody from Joisey to plead guilty without it being a plea agreement.

"Let me figure out how to take care of you." Tony Soprano

Big Load - it's ok with me. I got a call from your Union Boss. He tells me not to worry about a thing. He's taking care of it. capiche

I promise to log a couple trips this fall, assuming I ever get out on work release- I mean get released from work.

So without further ado, for your arguing pleasure, here is the HAZ TOP 20.
HIKE VOTES Tie Breaker
Humphreys Summit Trail 1739 163
 Bright Angel 1714 94
 Barnhardt Trail 1714 69
 Kaibab - South Rim 1709 80
 Boynton Canyon 1709 72
 Bell Trail 1704
 

Just like the BCS poll, other than telling you that these results are derived strictly from your votes, my algorithms are a secret.
Now I'm going "camping" at my favorite spot in Sedona and will be out of computer range.[/quote]


Those are the only ones I've done on the top twenty over the years.

Crocodile Ryan wrote:funny how those are the areas i tend to avoid

me too

I've done 10 of the 20. I have never done Camelback Mountain ....I might have to change that! Mary

Mary you really have never done Camelback?