ORS (Spire measure) peak lists

This is the heart of the ORS part of peaklist.org.

Currently, all lists on this page are ranked by RORS; they also include ORS values for all peaks. Some lists also include first ascent information.

Each list below is accompanied by a link to a KML file, for use with Google Earth (or other KML-compatible programs). (You may need to right-click the link to download it, and then load it into Google Earth.)

United States

• Entire US Top 25, with first ascent info (RORS)     KML
• Contiguous US Top 20 (RORS)     KML
• Washington Top 20 (RORS)     KML
• Montana Top 10 (RORS)     KML
• Oregon Top 10 (RORS)     KML
• Wyoming Top 10 (RORS)     KML
• California Top 10 (RORS)     KML
• Nevada Top 10 (RORS)     KML
• Utah Top 18 (RORS)     KML
• Wasatch Range (Utah) Top 10 (RORS)     KML
• Colorado Top 30 (RORS)     KML
• Arizona Top 15 (RORS)     KML
• Arizona Outside of Grand Canyon Region Top 15 (RORS)     KML
• New Mexico Top 15 (RORS)     KML

North America

• Non-arctic US and Canada Top 25, with first ascent info (RORS)     KML
• Southwestern British Columbia Top 20 (RORS)     KML
• Canadian Rockies and Interior Ranges Top 19 (Down to RORS=600m)     KML

Elsewhere

• World Top 25 (RORS)    KML
• European Alps Top 10 (RORS)    KML
• Central/Eastern Nepal Top 20 (RORS)    KML
• Central Tien Shan Top 7 (RORS)    KML

NOTE: As of June 2009, I have updated these lists to a new version of ORS. A few lists have not yet been converted (and they also use the terminology "spire measure"), and are available here.

The new version is not qualitatively different, but can vary by as much as 25% from the old version, so the lists and rankings have changed. Comparisons within each version are meaningful, but comparisons between lists using different versions are suspect.

The new lists are mostly shorter than the old versions they replaced, but they will be made longer eventually.

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