Colorado's Fourteener/400 Club

By convention, a mountain in Colorado is considered to be a "ranked" peak if it rises at least 300 feet above the saddle to any higher mountain. By this criterion there are 53 ranked fourteeners in Colorado, though some of these were discovered to be ranked only after the last USGS survey. Lists of the state's fourteeners sometimes include one or more of the five unranked 14,000 foot peaks which have official names. Anyone listed as completing the fourteeners did, as a minimum, all the known ranked 14,000 foot peaks.

Colorado has the highest average elevation of any state, as well as the greatest area over 10,000 feet. It is a goal for many Colorado hikers to summit all of the peaks higher than 14,000 feet (see inset). Likewise it is a goal for many Colorado birders to see 400 or more species of birds in the state by seeing or hearing each species.This page lists those people who have summited all of Colorado's 14,000 foot peaks and have seen at least 400 species of birds in the state. To date 14 birder/hikers have acheived this goal. People are listed in order of the final date of completion of both feats.

	Name	Final Fourteener Summitted	400th Colorado Bird Seen
1	Thompson Marsh (1903 - 1992)	Mt. Sneffels in August 1968	in 1981
2	Peter Gent	Wilson Peak in August 1989	Lesser Nighthawk in May 1991
3	Duane Nelson	Maroon Peak in September 1992	Harris' Hawk in December 1994
4	Hugh Kingery	Mt. Columbia in October 1957	Trumpeter Swan in December 1995
5	Gregg Goodrich	Snowmass Mountain in September 1993	Purple Finch in February 2008
6	Larry Modesitt	Snowmass Mountain in September 1993	Sooty Tern in September 2008
7	Roger Linfield	Snowmass Mountain in July 2013	Blue-headed Vireo in October 2012
8	Brenda Linfield	Snowmass Mountain in July 2013	Great Crested Flycatcher in June 2014
9	David Gillilan	Kit Carson Peak in July 2010	Hudsonian Godwit in August 2015
10	Lynne Miller	Mt. Lindsey in August 1984	Parasitic Jaeger in October 2015
11	Susan Pelligrini	Wilson Peak in September 2012	Gyrfalcon in January 2019
12	Kevin Keirn	Uncompahgre in July 1991	Curve-billed Thrasher in June 2020
13	Arthur Bezuidenhout	Culebra in June 2015	White-winged Crossbill in December 2020
14	Joan Grant	Capitol Peak in September 1994	Black Scoter in November 2022