In your opinion, what is the hardest 14er?

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Re: In your opinion, what is the hardest 14er?

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SchralpTheGnar wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:27 am I don’t know, I’ve never skied Capitol but the consensus from those who have finished is it’s undoubtedly the hardest by a wide margin.

Hardest 14er I’ve skied was probably Maroon or N.maroon, we managed to catch little bear in all time conditions and it was awesome, challenging for sure,so still one of the harder ones but we did that in a day from the valley floor and I think that the D scale stuff just considers the ski, not approach or vert, but I don’t know. Anywho I’ll probably never ski capitol and my risk tolerance has decreased since turning about 35, and on those types of lines you have to have 100% confidence that you can do it
Sorry misread your list. Friends that have skied Capitol don’t consider it much of a ski. I don’t have much interest in it personally.
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