Poll: For those chasing the 14er list

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In what age group do you fall under?

Under 20
16
7%
20-25
15
6%
26-30
41
18%
31-35
38
16%
36-40
29
12%
41-45
20
9%
46-50
18
8%
51-55
14
6%
56-60
12
5%
60+
30
13%
 
Total votes: 233
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Re: Poll: For those chasing the 14er list

Post by d_baker »

RobLowe wrote: Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:58 am
d_baker wrote: Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:40 am I don't golf. I just build and renovate the courses! Sorry man.
This raises more questions, rather than answers! Lol
Well to answer your previous question, no, I don't think I have any goofy pants to loan out.

I don't know what additional questions that my comment raises though, but maybe I don't need to know?!

As for the poll results thus far, it's interesting and great to see the 60+ category holding strong with the 26-30 and 31-35 groups!
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Re: Poll: For those chasing the 14er list

Post by RobLowe »

Salient wrote: Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:04 am
RobLowe wrote: Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:17 am in the salient and prescient words of Happy Gilmore”
I have been summoned
Adam, is that you? Thank you for making my childhood entertaining. Now stop looking at me schwannnnnnn.
A man who has no imagination has no wings

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Re: Poll: For those chasing the 14er list

Post by RobLowe »

d_baker wrote: Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:07 am
RobLowe wrote: Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:58 am
d_baker wrote: Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:40 am I don't golf. I just build and renovate the courses! Sorry man.
This raises more questions, rather than answers! Lol
Well to answer your previous question, no, I don't think I have any goofy pants to loan out.

I don't know what additional questions that my comment raises though, but maybe I don't need to know?!

As for the poll results thus far, it's interesting and great to see the 60+ category holding strong with the 26-30 and 31-35 groups!
I guess I always envisioned golf course creators / developers / renovators to be golfers, a la Nicklaus. Perhaps that was a naive vision? But it also raises fun analogies: like being the owner of a hot dog manufacturer that doesn’t eat hot dogs. Hell this could spur better analogies than the analogy thread.

So how did you become a golf course renovator guy without golfing? (This is question 1 of 100).
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Post by d_baker »

^ Eatnhardtack (Zach) from this site introduced me to my employer 10 years ago, so see this forum can have more than just man dates on mountains!
I have worked with a member of the Nicklaus team, and on a Tiger Woods designed course ( however he wasn't there for the construction of the 19th hole -- the owner took on direction and design of that one @ Paynes Valley).
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Post by ltlFish99 »

d_baker wrote: Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:07 am
RobLowe wrote: Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:58 am
d_baker wrote: Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:40 am I don't golf. I just build and renovate the courses! Sorry man.
This raises more questions, rather than answers! Lol
Well to answer your previous question, no, I don't think I have any goofy pants to loan out.

I don't know what additional questions that my comment raises though, but maybe I don't need to know?!

As for the poll results thus far, it's interesting and great to see the 60+ category holding strong with the 26-30 and 31-35 groups!
That us interesting and good, as I am in the 60+ category.
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Re: Poll: For those chasing the 14er list

Post by overthe59hill »

I'm 66, have done 14 so far. My first was at age 17. I'm a Colorado native and have lived in a few other states over my lifetime. I have been back to my home state since 1989, finished raising a family, and got a little excited about doing some 14ers. So my second one was at age 58. I still hope to get 6 to 8 more, for a total of 20 to 22 peaks. I have done an equal number of 13ers, and will probably add several more to that list as well.
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Laura M. Clark, in Wild Wanderer: Soloing Colorado's 200 Highest Peaks
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Post by Monte Meals »

I'm pushing 75 and still knock out a half dozen or so high peaks every summer.

While I have completed ~50 of the 14ers, I am not interested in completing the rest - just too dangerous.

These days, I enjoy the 13ers more - less crowds and increased challenges in route finding
(although I do still some of the 14ers for sentimental reasons.)

Keep on climbing!
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Re: Poll: For those chasing the 14er list

Post by dr_j »

^^^^
I hope I'm still able to walk when I'm 75.

This guy's my inspiration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Soria_Fontán

Everest at age 62, K2 at 65, Kanchenjunga at 75, Annapurna at 77. Just wow.
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Post by druid2112 »

All the 14ers I've done I did in my 40s, but damn, now that I'm 51 and live in Memphis the approach to most of those peaks feels soooooo long.
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