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"The Arizona Mountains Gazetteer"
Posted: Sep 13 2022 4:12 am
by SpiderLegs
[ The Arizona Mountains Gazetteer ]
This book is an nice addition to your reference shelf. Scott Surgent just published this over the summer and it is essentially an encyclopedia of every peak in Arizona worth climbing. It comes in at 522 pages and provides a thumbnail sketch of each summit. Got my copy over the weekend and have been pouring over it since. Has lists of peaks by prominence, range high points, county high points, peaks over 10,000 & 9,000, etc...
If you like hitting Arizona's peaks, you need this book.
Re: "The Arizona Mountains Gazetteer"
Posted: Sep 13 2022 10:59 am
by FOTG
@SpiderLegs
it is essentially an encyclopedia of every peak in Arizona worth climbing.
So there is a robust chapter on the Canyon I presume?
Re: "The Arizona Mountains Gazetteer"
Posted: Sep 13 2022 11:36 am
by chumley
anybody too lazy to read for themselves wrote:Within its borders are nearly 200 named mountain ranges, over a hundred more hill-ranges, many hundreds of volcanic mounds, and many more hundreds of eroded mountain-like formations within the Grand Canyon and other great canyons and at the periphery of the giant plateaus.
Re: "The Arizona Mountains Gazetteer"
Posted: Sep 13 2022 11:42 am
by FOTG
@chumley
I've always wondered if the being an pumpkin thing comes naturally or if you have to work at it? The classic nature vs. nurture dilemma I suppose?
Re: "The Arizona Mountains Gazetteer"
Posted: Sep 13 2022 3:35 pm
by AugustWest
The authors facial hair is worthy of a Pulitzer Prize
Re: "The Arizona Mountains Gazetteer"
Posted: Sep 14 2022 4:26 am
by SpiderLegs
FOTG wrote:So there is a robust chapter on the Canyon I presume?
The book is written like an encyclopedia or a dictionary, everything is in alphabetical order. Let me poke around in it a bit more. Do remember seeing a few GC peaks when I thumbed through there.
Re: "The Arizona Mountains Gazetteer"
Posted: Sep 14 2022 8:25 am
by SpiderLegs
@FOTG - I did a quick two minute perusal of the book and easily found The Battleship, Cheops, Isis, Cardenas and O'Neil.
The author's cut-off is everything in the book has to have at least 300 of vertical prominence. Each peak has at best a paragraph or two about it's location, history, etc... It is not a hiking guide, simply a reference manual about where the peak is, who manages it, the AEG and the like.