Scientists who hauled satellite-connected measuring equipment to the top of the Sangre de Cristos earlier this month are pretty sure it’s time for an addition — and a removal — from Colorado’s list of 58 fourteeners.

“This technology has been out there for 30 years, it’s just not really been used on top of mountains. A lot of peaks have not been measured to this level of accuracy before,” said Eric Gilbertson, an engineering professor and record-holding mountaineer who last year found Washington’s melting Mount Rainier to be more than 10 feet shorter than official measurements from 1998.

On Oct. 5, Gilbertson and a couple mountaineering pals turned their attention to the 14,299-foot Crestone Peak in the Sangre de Cristo range. They also backpacked their antennae rods, tripods and Global

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