Working on the Colorado 14ers
It has been a good summer for climbing my beloved 14ers – I have 8 new climbs with a few repeats. My goal is to climb the 58 peaks above 14, 000′ however more importantly I am working on various aspects of my climbing skills for the upcoming 7 Summits journey to raise $1M for […]
Success on Capital Peak
A full trip report is now on the site but here is a teaser for now. I summited Capital around 11:00 AM on September 10, 2009. I was solo all the way and then joined by father, son team Scott and John Scott on the summit. John took this video of my return across the […]
Another try at Capital Peak
After last week’s mixed results – summited Snowmass but tweaked a knee stopping my bid on Capital; I will try again on Thursday. This time I am watching the weather carefully. September in the Colorado mountains is a dicey time. It can be sunny and warm one minute and harshly cold with snow the next. […]
Best Laid Plans Busted by a Knee
My grand plan was to knock off a quick climb of Snowmass Mountain then backpack later that day to climb Capital Peak, one of the more difficult Colorado 14ers. Well I accomplished half my goal. You can read about my climb of the 14, 092 Colorado mountain on my trip report. During that climb, my […]
Climbing more 14ers with all my parts
Colorado has 58 mountains over 14,000 feet (4,266 meters) in height but only 53 are noted as ’14ers’. To qualify as a 14er the peak must be 300 feet higher than saddle of an adjacent peak.