Uncompahgre Peak – Colorado 14er
Uncompahgre Peak is the 6th highest peak in Colorado at 14,321 feet, the highest peak in the San Juan mountain range, and the…
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Mount Sneffels – Colorado 14er
Greg and I return to Southwest Colorado for another 14er weekend, with Mount Sneffels first on the list. Rising to 14,155 feet just…
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Mount Eolus and North Eolus – Colorado 14ers
Mount Eolus and North Eolus – Colorado 14ers number 32 and 33 done. An oh-dark-thirty start out of our campsite in the Chicago…
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San Luis Peak – Colorado 14er
San Luis Peak – 14er number 31 in the books. This 14er isn’t convenient to get to from either direction – northeast off…
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Guadalupe Peak – Texas High Point
Guadalupe Peak – take two, and finally in the rearview mirror. When the NOAA weather forecast looks like this, you know it’s going…
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Longs Peak via the Keyhole Route
Longs Peak – a fitting climb for my 14er halfway point! I was tossing around ideas to get #29 under my belt before…
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Mount Shavano and Tabeguache Peak
Mount Shavano and Tabeguache Peak make number 27 and 28 on the 14er list. Another last-minute hare-brained idea to make use of a…
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Climbing Huron Peak
Huron Peak rounds out the Collegiate Peaks for me, a subset of the gorgeous Sawatch Range in the Rockies. One more 14er crossed…
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Climbing Mount Princeton
Mount Princeton has to be the single most boring 14er I’ve done to date. A nice thing about driving in on Thursday night…
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Climbing Mount Yale
Mount Yale makes number 22 checked off the 14er list. I was going to hit some peaks south of here, but a late…
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Panorama Point Nebraska
Panorama Point – the Nebraska High Point checked off the list. 15 down, 36 to go if you count DC. 5,424 feet seems…
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Black Elk Peak
Black Elk Peak – the South Dakota high point at 7.244 feet, one more high point checked off the list. We’ve done a…
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Indian Peaks Sunrise
Watching the sun come up as I head up the Arapaho Glacier Trail in the Indian Peaks Wilderness. A beautiful morning, the pictures…
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Hawkeye Point Iowa High Point
Hawkeye Point – yay Iowa! Another highpoint done for no other reason than highpointing… Congratulations to someone in the Chamber of Commerce for…
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Feldhorn Peak
Going up the Feldhorn is something all visitors do. The top of the mountain is the dividing line between Germany and Austria, and…
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Cosmique Ridge
Climbers on the Cosmique Ridge route up the Auguille du Midi.
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Vent du Dragon
An album of Eric and Michal climbing the Vent du Dragon on the Auguille du Midi.
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Social Distancing
I’ve been slacking on the Daily Doses – aka what used to be Facebook posts – since up until Coronavirus we’d had enough…
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Mount Magazine Arkansas
Mount Magazine is the highest point in Arkansas. If you’re not a highpointer, absolutely no reason to make the hot buggy trek up…
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Sunshine and Redcloud
Two more 14ers checked off the list – Sunshine Peak (14,001ft) and Redcloud Peak (14,034ft). Since I was there, I threw in a…
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Climbing Handies Peak
Colette’s First 14er! Handies Peak is a walk-up, no technical skill needed to make it to the top, but it’s still no joke….
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