Petition to rename Kit Carson

[tmathews]

Which 14er is named for the most reprehensible person or institution? (Let those without sin cast the first vote.)

OK, I'll bite. Does it have to be an official 14er? Mt. Cameron...?

[Crestoner]

And while we're at it...

Mt Holy Cross, San Luis, Eolus: religious connotations
Sunlight and Sunshine: named after a mutagen?
Culebra: hey, snakes bite
Little Bear: are we making fun of vertically challenged bears?
Redcloud: isn't that what comes out of industrial smokestacks?
Mt Massive: glorifies this country's obesity epidemic
Castle: well, that's elitist

[shaunster_co]

And while we're at it...

Mt Holy Cross, San Luis, Eolus: religious connotations
Sunlight and Sunshine: named after a mutagen?
Culebra: hey, snakes bite
Little Bear: are we making fun of vertically challenged bears?
Redcloud: isn't that what comes out of industrial smokestacks?
Mt Massive: glorifies this country's obesity epidemic
Castle: well, that's elitist

That's hilarious! Not to forget 'Democrat: political connotations'

[viejo]

Undersirables - per Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles....

Hedley Lamarr: I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, s**t-kickers and METHODISTS.

Guess we need to change Dyer and Father Dyer as well....

[Mark A Steiner]

Several years ago a Denver talk show proposed naming a peak after Dave Sanders, the heroic high school teacher who lost his life trying to save students at the Columbine massacre in 1999. This is a stretch, but if the name Kit Carson retains negative connotations and historic data, here is some silver lining behind the dark clouds if a name change is appropriate here ... Dave Sanders Peak (or mountain).

Then too, there are many worthy unnamed 13ers to apply Dave Sanders' name to ...

Just two cents.

[djkest]

Clearly we all need to show our support for the current name of Kit Carson by all dressing up like Kit Carson and climbing the peak in a very public manor. Maybe we can get a news crew to document the whole thing. I think the blue cavalcade, cowboy hat, and fake moustache would look pretty goon on me! Well, maybe not on some of the women...

ETA: Lol, I just saw my type-o, but I'm going to leave it for hilarities' sake.
ETA2: Looks like he didn't regularly sport a mustache, but may have had a diminuative beard.

[highpilgrim]

Hedley Lamarr: I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, s**t-kickers and METHODISTS.

We don't need no stinking badges...

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[Kojones]

I vote no change. I mean, I bet we could get enough people from my home town (Chevy Chase, MD) to sign a petition to rename it because the comedian was not that funny to them, but why waste everybody's time and money? Leave it the way it is and we can all go about our own business.

Kojones

[gb]

I'm afraid you guys have the name change all confused. It has nothing to do with being all politically correct regarding Kit Carson. Since Crestone means the crest of a bird, or a cockscomb, the peak that towers over the town of Crestone, and looks like the crest of a bird, was called Crestone:


The people of Crestone have ALWAYS called KC Crestone because that's what it looks like. The last time I climbed KC, the Crestone Eagle had the story on the front page regarding the petition to change the name. It's still on the web here: http://www.crestoneeagle.com/archives2008/apr08_b1.html The people of Crestone are just trying to correct a mistake made years ago by some guy drawing a map and incorrectly labeling Crestone as KC.

That said, Crestone Peak and Mount Crestone sounds confusing and just plain dumb. Maybe Crestone North or something.

[JimR]

I agree that calling it Mt Crestone is a bad idea. Maybe the town name could be changed to Carsonville instead.

[shaunster_co]

The people of Crestone are just trying to correct a mistake made years ago by some guy drawing a map and incorrectly labeling Crestone as KC.

The Hayden Expedition / Survey in 1874 was 'some guy drawing a map'?

I don't know... seems to me it had many different names prior to that
I will reference this:
http://www.14ers.com/php14ers/historyvi ... %20History

[shaunster_co]

The town of Crestone was officially established November 1880. The Hayden Survey named the peak in 1874..