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Peak Jut 🤘

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:27 pm
by Nate U
For those of you who must make your jokes, please go right ahead and get it out of your system. 😉

Finished? Ok - I stumbled upon this guy on Reddit years ago but now I see he has made a whole proper website.

Peak Jut is super cool and I think a meaningful way to measure the general rad-ness of topography.
The website explains what the whole concept is and how it is calculated, including how it differs from prominence. I personally think it is more useful then prominence, because the way prominence values isolation is not quite as meaningful to me as elevation rise over a distance.

FYI the peak with the most Jut in the San Gabriels is Iron Mountain by a fair margin - I think that feels valid?

The interactive map is super cool, allowing you to calculate the "Jut" of any location, and features a "Jut" layer.

https://peakjut.com

...must resist temptation to retroactively calculate the Jut of every peak I've bagged.... must resist.... resistance is failing...

Re: Peak Jut 🤘

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:21 pm
by dima
Do the peakbagger people know about this? It's a new source of lists to be completed!

Re: Peak Jut 🤘

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 8:47 am
by tekewin
I've been following the jut discussion and jokes on /r/mountaineering for a while. It's a cool concept, but the jut dude takes a lot of flak. :lol:

Re: Peak Jut 🤘

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:21 am
by Matthew
Huge fan once Nate turned me into it a few months ago! I wish more peaks were recognized on there. I feel like they only recognize peaks with a wiki and exclude OSM ones

Re: Peak Jut 🤘

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2025 6:56 pm
by Nate U
Matthew wrote: Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:21 am Huge fan once Nate turned me into it a few months ago! I wish more peaks were recognized on there. I feel like they only recognize peaks with a wiki and exclude OSM ones
But with the interactive map you can calculate from any point on earth!!! I.... may be in the process of doing so for my life list... 🤪