RICK CRANDALL

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Fourteeners are mountains whose summits are over 14,000’ – Each one is a different climbing experience.

Here are their stories.

The Toughest

Capitol Peak: The King of Them All

Little Bear Peak – the Bad Boy

Caught in a Thunderstorm

San Luis Peak

Crestone Peak

Mt Harvard and Columbia – thunderstorm in a tent

Storm forecasting – Mt Shavano

Indian Lore

Blanca Peak – The Chief’s Headdress

Mount of the Holy Cross

Mt Shavano – Angel of Shavano

Animal Contact

Mountain Goats – Pyramid Peak

Bear – Blanca Peak

North Maroon Peak – Amazing Goat on Summit

Big Horn Sheep – Ellingwood Pt

Albino Marmot on Mt. Massive

Fun Stories

Full moon climb – Mt Belford & Mt Oxford

Kit Carson Peak and Challenger Point

Glissading – Castle Peak and Conundrum Peak

Blanca Peak – Eagle Feathers for Chief Headdress

Four Fourteeners In One Day

Climbing a NY Skyscraper

Pikes Peak – my final fourteener

Humboldt Peak in an Eclipse

Mt. Princeton on my Birthday

Sunlight Peak and the Durango & Silverton steam locomotive

Wilson Peak – Finding gold

Tabegauche Peak

Other Challenging Climbs

Mt Wilson

El Diente

Snowmass Mountain

Longs Peak – the deadliest of them all

South Maroon Peak

Windom Peak – 4 tries and a cool summit

Wilson Peak – iconic from Telluride

Mt. Eolus

Mt. Lindsey

The Sawtooth from Beirstadt to Mt Evans

The Easiest Climbs

Mt Elbert – 2^nd highest

Mt Belford & Mt Oxford

Culebra Peak – Stations of the Cross

Huron Peak

Some Challenging Thirteeners

Mt Daly – with the stripe

Mountain Boy Peak

Grizzly Peak

Buffalo Peaks

Climbs with a Small Dog (Emme)

Missouri Peak

Mt Antero – Aquamarines

Redcloud & Sunshine

Four Fourteeners in One Day

Yale Mountain

Grays & Torreys

Mountain Boy – first one with Emme

Twining Peak

Mt Sopris – the Icon

Emme Tribute

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African Safari

Climbing a New York City Skyscraper

In Hudson Yards, NYC there is a building called the Edge that has the highest cantilevered deck in North America at the 100th floor. We elevatored to there and then went outside to climb to the top!

Eight Days Rafting the Entire Grand Canyon

Mt. Sherman Revisited

After four years passing from finishing climbing all 58 fourteeners, I am back at a summit on Mt. Sherman with Mona Long.

Brother Wayne Doing More Than Just Dancing with a Dolphin

My Favorite 14er Climb Stories

Pyramid Peak – a Dream Climb

Pyramid Peak near Aspen, one of the most challenging fourteeners with its narrow ledges, Leap of Faith, Class 4 Green Wall and the impressive Amphitheater; climbed during fall aspen colors with climbing expert Andy Mishmash.

Pikes Peak – Summiting My 58th and Final 14er

Pikes Peak is the 2nd most visited mountain in the world. I saved it for last because it has a road to the top so that some friends could climb with me and others could ride to the top to begin the celebration completing a 9-year mission to climb them all. We chose the Crags Trail, and then we had quite a party!

North Maroon Peak – Going Technical

Climbing North Maroon with Andy Mishmash changes a dangerous climb into pure joy. This peak is notorious for casualties but with care watching for loose rock and someone experienced in route finding, North Maroon becomes one of the most beautiful fourteener climbs. The views on the way up and from summit are stunning

Little Bear Peak – Bad Boy of the Colorado Fourteeners

This is a pure climbing story because this mountain is a skilled-climbers’ mountain that most recognize as one of the two most difficult of all 57 Colorado fourteeners.

K2 and Capitol Peak (“The King”)

Capitol Peak is undoubtedly the standard bearer of all the fourteeners in Colorado. It features a very long boulder hike/climb to a sub-summit called K2 at 13,688’ followed by a knife-edge ridge crawl to the Capitol summit cap. The final push is a 550’ Class 4 climb to summit.

Crestone Peak … and a Self Rescue!

“Crestone Peak, or “The Peak” as known among many climbers, is one of the “double-black diamond” 14ers for climbers. It and its companion fourteener, Crestone Needle were the last of all the fourteeners to be scaled back in the 1920’s. This remote and rugged mountain was once thought impossible to climb.”

Blanca Peak – Sacred Mountain of the Navajo

with a 130-year old Eagle trap at summit …and close encounters with hungry bears.