Sunlight Peak – a Beauty in the San Juans
Sunlight Peak is great rock climbing fun and in the most beautiful Range in Colorado. It is accessed from Chicago Basin which is accessed by a 7 mile backpack after riding an historic narrow-gauge train ride and jumping off between Durango and Silverton.
Culebra Peak from San Luis, Colorado’s Oldest Town
Culebra Peak is the only privately-owned fourteener. It is accessed from San Luis, only 8 miles from the New Mexico border. The town, formed in 1851, has the striking "Chapel of All Saints and a world-famous shrine called Stations of the Cross.
Invention in San Francisco: 80 Years before Silicon Valley
The 1890's: Pioneering risk-takers defined by the California Gold Rush; battle-tested by the 1906 earthquake; Charlie Fey invents the Liberty Bell slot machine creating an industry that persists to this day.
Las Torres del Paine in the Chilean Patagonia
Near the tip of South America, highly sculptured towers and horns emerging abruptly from the pampas. 65 miles of hiking accomplishing the “W” signature series to the Italian, French and British camps where climbers have attempted these fearsome towers...
Mt. Sopris via Northeast Ridge
Mt. Sopris is the icon of the Aspen/Roaring Fork Valley – Happy Birthday to Brett Crandall!
This has some route detail since there is not much Mt. Sopris route information that I could find.
While not a fourteener, it is a big mountain from bottom...
Little Bear Peak in a Snowstorm – and a Real Bear
Little Bear Peak – standard route judged to be the most difficult standard route of all Colorado fourteeners, and I learned why. Accessible up the worst road in Colorado. We ran into a bear raid and a snowstorm to boot – a multiple adventure.
Missouri Mountain – West Ridge
A fourteener in the Collegiates that is a modest step up from a “walk-up.
Mt. Lindsey: Full Moon Campout and a Class 3, Loose Gully Climb
Mt. Lindsey is one of the new Class of climbs we're doing – loose, steep gullies and playing roulette with the weather.
Mt. Antero – West Slopes via Baldwin Gulch
Mt. Antero in the Collegiates, the highest
mineral-laden terroir in the country.
Three Fourteener Summits in One Long Day
Redcloud and Sunshine Peaks, both fourteeners in the San Juan Range, can be done together, but the only way down is to climb Redcloud again on the return. A long day, 12 miles and 4,800' elevation gain. Emme, the amazing Australian Terrier, did all three...