Peak bagging

Peak bagging (also hill bagging, mountain bagging, or among enthusiasts, just bagging) is a popular activity for hillwalkers and mountaineers in which they attempt to reach the summit of each peak in a region above some height, or having a particular feature.

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Hillwalkers - Mountaineers

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Peak bagging can be distinguished from highpointing. In peak bagging, the targets are the peaks of mountains or hills, and the popular lists usually require that the target pass some threshold of prominence. In highpointing, the goal is to reach the highest point in some geographic area (eg, state or county), even if that point is not in any sense a peak. Suppose a rectangular county has a 1000-foot-tall hill at its center, but its northwest corner reaches an elevation of 1001 feet on the gentle lower slopes of a 10,000-foot mountain in the next county. The hill at center is the highest peak in the county, but the northwest corner is the highpoint.

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Highpointing - Prominence

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