#top-navigation Christof Teuscher "I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way." — Carl Sagan .site-branding #masthead Menu Close Home Records Routes & Challenges Running Visuals Media About #main-navigation .entry-header T here are exactly 33 peaks over 9,000ft (2743m) with at least 300ft (91m) of prominence in the Eagle Cap Wilderness , which is located in Oregon’s amazing Wallowa Mountains . 33 is the sum of the first positive factorials, a normal human spine has 33 vertebrae, 33 is when water begins to boil on Newton’s scale , IL-33 is a protein encoded by the IL33 gene that is thought to cause the itching associated with dermatitis, and a day has 33-(3×3)=24 hours. So 33 is an important number, in other words. The Eagle’s 33 challenge consists in summiting as many of these 33 peaks as possible. According to my amateurish mapping efforts, possi...