1st Solo Female 14er Finisher?

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Re: 1st Solo Female 14er Finisher?

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blazintoes wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 12:59 pmI just hope she doesn’t teach Girl Scouts to glissade with a potato masher.
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Many people have published controversial books, some full of lies, on a much larger scale. Controversy sells and gets noticed, even if it's not right. This thread will likely be the top Google hit on first woman to solo those peak lists. I haven't bothered to check Wikipedia or FKT.

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The discussion of how much beta and route description reminded me of the old cartoon by Sheridan:
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Fwiw I went ahead and purchased the book. It’s only the price of 3 gallons of gas. Looking forward to reading it. I hope ww keeps the trip reports coming!
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Y’all care way too much about this. Enjoy climbing peaks and maybe think about focusing your need to change the world energy on more important topics that the world is going through right now (women’s rights, guns etc) instead of a stupid book on Amazon.
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LetsGoMets wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:37 am Y’all care way too much about this. Enjoy climbing peaks and maybe think about focusing your need to change the world energy on more important topics that the world is going through right now (women’s rights, guns etc) instead of a stupid book on Amazon.
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jrbren_vt wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:59 pm Fwiw I went ahead and purchased the book. It’s only the price of 3 gallons of gas. Looking forward to reading it. I hope ww keeps the trip reports coming!
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just curious. what exactly does it mean to "solo" a hike on a CO 14er. is there any actual widely accepted definition for what qualifies as soloing on mountains, some of which are hiked by hundreds or thousands of people on any given day?
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I like WW's trip reports and feel that she's contributed more than enough to justify some "self promotion" as others have put it. I get the sense that some find the very idea of anybody making a bent cent or two off their hiking to be repugnant, but I've never really understood that. Maybe hiking is a pretty ordinary activity in these parts, but there are tons of books and other reflections on ordinary experiences like parenting, working a desk job, getting to know oneself, etc and I don't see why hiking should be any different. There are people out there who want to learn what someone who's walked a thousand miles or so has to say about their experience. I bought several such books myself and greatly enjoyed them.

Perhaps WW is not the first woman to hike all of the 14ers alone, but I can't recall that dozens of pages of discussion yielded definitive evidence that someone did it before her. Whoever did it first should get recognition for it; if that's WW then I think it's worthy of celebrating. So many women are told from a young age that they can't do any number of things, alone or otherwise, because it's dangerous, or selfish, or it's not meant for them, stuff that boys or men rarely if ever hear. Whoever did it first had to push past all of that nonsense, and other women who followed had to contend with it too. So I see it as an important achievement, certainly personally meaningful and capable of inspiring others too.

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LetsGoMets wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:37 am Y’all care way too much about this. Enjoy climbing peaks and maybe think about focusing your need to change the world energy on more important topics that the world is going through right now (women’s rights, guns etc) instead of a stupid book on Amazon.
Well, to be fair, maybe you meant "America", rather than "world".
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Her many trip reports are good reading and could be useful and lots of people(myself included) enjoy them.
She gives a lot of time to girl scouts helping girls learn skills.
Whether or not sure was the first, it's very valuable for women to see that it's ok to go do these peaks alone. I consider myself pretty tough, and I've done most of my summits (58/58 and 77/100) by myself, but honestly I don't have any skills that make me safer out there than many of the women I know, but I don't see any women out there doing it by themselves. And I know they're often held back by not being able to find a partner and don't feel safe alone. So I am glad she exists and is doing what she is.
I doubt many, if any, of the people bashing her on this thread have done a fraction of the good she has, whether or not she's made missteps along the way.
My backlog of books to read is embarrassingly long right now (my nightstand is overflowing so starting to take over my dresser)so I'm not sure if I'll get hers, but I hope lots of people do.
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terrysrunning wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:16 am Whether or not sure was the first, it's very valuable for women to see that it's ok to go do these peaks alone.

Well said and 100% correct.
pvnisher wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:58 pm
Well, to be fair, maybe you meant "America", rather than "world".
Sadly, you are right.
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