Your First 14er

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MountainMo
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Re: Your First 14er

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My first was Longs Peak, July 1974. Nothing but cotton on the mountain that day....came up from Shreveport LA with a church group, camped near the Y Camp in Estes Park, day trips in the park for 4 days, climbed Longs on the 5th day. I'm the kid lower right pic with yellow cap.

Finally moved to Colorado in 1985, and started to slowly climb the 14ers but with no initial plan to complete them all. I finally got number 58 in Sept 2017. What an amazing journey we all get to experience climbing and hiking mountains.
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Re: Your First 14er

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Mount Massive, I believe sometime late March 1980. Lots of snow...
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Re: Your First 14er

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2010: Massive.

Flatlander reads an article about 14ers. It described Massive as an 'easy walkup'. I can do easy so me and my three sons come out. Hero dad is outfitted with an old external frame pack carrying everyone's snacks and water. Around 13,000 we are all dying. We can see the top but 10 steps at a time are about all we can hack (in no shape for this). I did read and obeyed about getting off by noon and while I think we could have made it, it was going to take a while.
We turn tale and not long after we hit treeline the mountain explodes and shakes lighting strikes. Whew!

Kept that one in my back pocket for 10 years. This past summer I came back and easily summited and was fortunate to help someone I met summit his first 14er after his group turned back.
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Re: Your First 14er

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CaptCO wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 5:01 pm Nice job Ed!
Thanks, Alec. (It is Alec, correct?) I have a long way to go. Being a flatlander, it will take me a while but I hope to get most, if not all, of the 14ers under my belt between ages 66 and 70. That is, if the body and the mind hold up. :)
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Re: Your First 14er

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my first was langley, chosen simply because the group i went with had room on their permit. i can't say that the idea of finishing the 14ers was anywhere close to being on my radar, but i guess it was lurking somewhere because i followed it up with white mountain within a month or so, and let me tell you what a boring effing slog that slag heap is.

first colorado 14er was elbert. i know, lame. but special for me because it was on the 20 year anniversary of me being off booze, and prior to that i never expected to last this long lmfao.
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Re: Your First 14er

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First one I did was Mt Democrat, with the whole group, after a 6" fall storm in 2008. We hiked it because it was in our guide book "100 classic hikes." I had a good hardshell and hiking shoes and years of hiking in four corners and the smokeys, but my wife(then gf) hadn't done much hiking prior to that year and only had a anorak that didnt fit well and jeans! :lol: We didnt have trekking poles, which made for a really miserable descent off Bross. I enjoyed the experience, probably reminded me of doing mountains in SMNP as a kid. We did Massive a few weeks later and then failed on Longs and that winter between looking for work I discovered Bill's website.
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Re: Your First 14er

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First peak: Grays.

First post: this one!
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Re: Your First 14er

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Pintxo wrote: Wed Mar 31, 2021 1:15 pm First peak: Grays.

First post: this one!
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