The Warren Variation

The Bulger List

The Bulger List was the brain child of a group of mountaineers and outdoor enthusiasts in the 1970 who aspired towards a new challenge. So in 1976 when the last of the topographical USGS maps for the state of Washington came out the group identified the top one hundred highest and formed what is now called 'The Bulger List'. The Bulger List specifically identifies the list as one of many variations to the 'hundred highest list'. You may wonder how there can be variations and for the most part it stems from what one determines constitutes a mountain. The Bulger List rules are as follows:

Rule 1: An individual summit has to rise at least 400 feet above the surrounding terrain. The distinction looks right in the field and can be clearly determined from maps with 40, 80 and 100 foot contour intervals.

Rule 2: A peak with an official USGS-approved name will be considered for inclusion even if it fails the 400 foot rule.

Rule 3: An 800 foot rule applies to major volcanoes. This rule avoids counting Columbia Crest and Liberty Cap on Rainier as two separate mountains. Little Tahoma is the only volcanic sub-summit with Big Boy status

Now there is another group, which identify themselves as 'The Clean Prominence List', that have taken a more strict and scientific approach to the list. Armed with new tools to measure altimeters and GPS they have updated some of the elevations listed for some peaks to more current and accurate readings, thus changing their placement on the list and wehther or not they belong on this new updated version. Additionally, peaks that were named on the original maps were used regardless of whether or not they had 400 feet of clean prominenece. The Clean Prominence List did away with those and used only peaks that had strictly 400ft of clean prominence regardless

The List

1.   Mount Rainier - 14,411ft
2.   Mount Adams - 12,276ft
3.   Little Tahoma - 11,138ft
4.   Mount Baker - 10,781ft
5.   Glacier Peak - 10,520ft
6.   Bonanza Peak - 9,511ft
7.   Mount Stuart - 9,415ft
8.   Mount Fernow - 9,249ft
9.   Goode Mountain - 9,200ft
10.   Mount Shuksan - 9,131ft
11.   Mount Buckner - 9,114ft
12.   Seven Fingered Jack - 9,100ft
13.   Mount Logan - 9,087ft
14.   Jack Mountain - 9,066ft
15.   Mount Maude - 9,040ft
16.   Mount Spickard - 8,979ft
17.   Black Peak - 8,970ft
18.   Mount Redoubt - 8,969ft
19.   Copper Peak - 8,964ft
20.   North Gardner Mountain - 8,956ft
21.   Dome Peak - 8,920ft
22.   Gardner Mountain - 8,898ft
23.   Boston Peak - 8,894ft
24.   Silver Star Mountain - 8,876ft
25.   Eldorado Peak - 8,868ft
26.   Dragontail Peak - 8,840ft
27.   Forbidden Peak - 8,815ft
28.   Oval Peak - 8,795ft
29.   Mesahchie Peak - 8,795ft
30.   Fortress Mountain - 8,760ft
31.   Mount Lago - 8,745ft
32.   Robinson Mountain - 8,726ft
33.   Colchuck Peak - 8,705ft
34.   Star Peak - 8,690ft
35.   Remmel Mountain - 8,685ft
36.   Katsuk Peak - 8,680ft
37.   Sahale Peak - 8,680ft
38.   Cannon Mountain - 8,638ft
39.   Mount Custer - 8,630ft
40.   Ptarmigan Peak - 8,614ft
41.   Sherpa Peak - 8,605ft
42.   Clark Mountain - 8,602ft
43.   Cathedral Peak - 8,601ft
44.   Kimtah Peak - 8,600ft
45.   Mount Carru - 8,595ft
46.   Monument Peak - 8,592ft
47.   Cardinal Peak - 8,590ft
48.   Osceola Peak - 8,587ft
49.   Raven Ridge-Libby Peak - 8,555ft
50.   Buck Mountain - 8,528ft

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