Monitoring progress

I’ve posted a variety of links to some maps and tables showing my hiking progress. Keeping track of lists is a pretty common thing to do up here so I thought I’d join in. I’m tracking four different lists of peaks right now with two tables. The purpose of this is to get me hiking more and in new places. It’s not to focus all my attention on having to complete some list to the exclusion of everything else.

While I was at it, I also decided to get in on a goal that’s impossible to ever finish by keeping track of the highpoints of all the counties in the country that I have visited. It’s a very, very empty map at this point. It will probably never get very full since the middle and south of the country is pretty boring, and much of the west requires technical skill. Oh, also it’s far away and I have a job. I guess I could at least do a better job of the counties near where I live, though. One I was surprised by was that despite all my hiking and backpacking as a kid, I didn’t visit many high points in the south. At least, I can’t remember visiting many.