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Guadalupe Peak - Texas High Point

Guadalupe Peak – Texas High Point

Posted on March 30, 2022March 30, 2022 by jim

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 via the Keyhole Route

Posted on December 2, 2021December 8, 2021 by jim

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

Posted on November 21, 2021November 24, 2021 by jim

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

Climbing Huron Peak

Posted on November 13, 2021November 16, 2021 by jim

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

Climbing Mount Princeton

Posted on September 24, 2021September 26, 2021 by jim

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

Climbing Mount Yale

Posted on September 18, 2021September 20, 2021 by jim

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 Nebraska

Posted on September 11, 2021September 21, 2021 by jim

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

Posted on September 7, 2021March 9, 2022 by jim

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

Indian Peaks Sunrise

Posted on July 23, 2021August 20, 2021 by jim

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 Iowa High Point

Posted on May 23, 2021September 22, 2021 by jim

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

Feldhorn Peak

Posted on October 9, 2020October 18, 2020 by jim

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

Cosmique Ridge

Posted on July 3, 2020July 4, 2020 by jim

Climbers on the Cosmique Ridge route up the Auguille du Midi.

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Vent du Dragon

Vent du Dragon

Posted on July 2, 2020July 4, 2020 by jim

An album of Eric and Michal climbing the Vent du Dragon on the Auguille du Midi.

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Social Distancing

Social Distancing

Posted on March 26, 2020 by jim

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 Arkansas

Posted on August 25, 2019October 20, 2020 by jim

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

Sunshine and Redcloud

Posted on August 22, 2019October 21, 2020 by jim

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

Climbing Handies Peak

Posted on August 21, 2019August 20, 2020 by jim

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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Black Mesa Oklahoma High Point

Black Mesa Oklahoma High Point

Posted on July 13, 2019March 25, 2020 by jim

Some high points are beautiful, some you drive up to, and some make you go ‘Meh’. I miscalculated daylight, the internet said 06:43,…

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Mt Sunflower Kansas High Point

Mt Sunflower Kansas High Point

Posted on July 12, 2019March 25, 2020 by jim

Kansas is EVERYTHING you would expect it to be. Flat, dry and dusty – with farmland and cattle land stretching to the horizon…

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Climbing the Cat

Climbing the Cat

Posted on January 22, 2019March 25, 2020 by jim

I am here because it’s there. A couple times coming up the Northwest Ridge I thought ‘huh, I should probably be roped in…

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Lavaland

Lavaland

Posted on September 30, 2017January 15, 2020 by jim

Lavaland Mount Kilimanjaro, Moshi, Tanzania

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