Drinking on a Peak: What it Takes

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Drinking on a Peak: What it Takes

Post by cougar »

Summit beer, wine, or liquor? Has to match the season. drink every mile, every 1000ft up and down, like the beer mile? Are people still carrying kegs up to the summits? Several checklist icons may be needed.
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Re: Drinking on a Peak: What it Takes

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Might as well keep it to the standards set by the National Institute on Alcohol. Keeps it simple.

12 ounces of regular beer, which is usually about 5% alcohol (If bringing a VooDoo Ranger Double Imperial beer or something similar, 6 ounces is acceptable given the ~9% alcohol content)
5 ounces of wine, which is typically about 12% alcohol
1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, which is about 40% alcohol (You can substitute .75 ounces of something if you are going with something 80% for weight efficiency)

Then as it pertains to 14ers:
The drink must be consumed after reaching the summit, but before departing the summit. (Unranked summits do count)
No help from climbing partners. You need to finish the entire quantity of measured drink. (Basically, you gotta go solo on this one, but moral support from partners is allowed)
You need to pack out the original container. Breaking LNT results in a disqualification and you must repeat the peak in question.
Photographic evidence is required, showing both the drink, measurements both before and after consuming plus a good view of peaks nearby to establish you were actually made it to the summit. (This will be verified by a select panel on the forum using Parallax and known summit photos)

And I think that covers it!

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RyGuy wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 9:28 am (If bringing a VooDoo Ranger Double Imperial beer or something similar, 6 ounces is acceptable given the ~9% alcohol content)
No, you drink 12oz but count that as two summits to pad your numbers.
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What was not mentioned was that the all important 3,000 feet of elevation gain must be obtained or peak does not count, and said liquids cannot be consumed.

This of course applies only to 3,000 foot obsessed individuals such as myself.
As I do not, under any circumstances consume alcohol, my summit drink is the same as my breakfast and dinner drink. Lemon lime Gatorade, and a pop tart for a snack.
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We really running this joke into the ground.
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Trotter wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 4:49 pm We really running this joke into the ground.
Running it to the Ground: What it Takes
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k_fergie wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 4:52 pm
Trotter wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 4:49 pm We really running this joke into the ground.
Running it to the Ground: What it Takes
On the sex thread, someone said something about we haven't gone far from the tree of Capt CO posts...or something akin to that.
Well, this....
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IMO, if it's beer, it's got to be a Colorado beer. And yes, that swill of a banquet beer does count but not advisable.
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k_fergie wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 4:52 pm
Trotter wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 4:49 pm We really running this joke into the ground.
Running it to the Ground: What it Takes
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Nuff said:
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Wish I lived in CO wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 7:24 pm Nuff said:

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Extra credit for the peak: Hint - San Juans
Uh, that's in a river....lol
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d_baker wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 7:56 pm
Wish I lived in CO wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 7:24 pm Nuff said:

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Extra credit for the peak: Hint - San Juans
Uh, that's in a river....lol
Yeh OK. .......... Wilson group, Kilpacker approach. :-D
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