daway8 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 6:58 pm Lists to pursue in 2024: ALL OF THEM!!! I'm now chasing every list!!!
14ers 2nd lap
14ers calendar grid
14ers sub-summits (almost there!)
13ers - Cents, Bicents, ranked, unranked
14er snowflakes (Frozen Finisher some day??)
13er snowflakes
Zone completions
Great Traverses
Not So Great Traverses
Fun Scrambles
Hard Scrambles
What Was I Thinking!?! Scrambles
Snow climbs
Rock climbs
Climb out of bed
Climb up the walls
Climb into Fort Knox (ok, well maybe not EVERY list...)
To be clear, I'm not really planning to actually finish any of these lists in 2024 (except the 14er sub-summits) - I'm just opening my targets up wider.
Glad to see someone else revive the 2024 thread, since so many people have already jumped on the 2025 bandwagon - but I was busy squeezing more into 2024, and might still have some last minute fun as well - but I'll leave that as bonus points.
2024 summary: Fantastic year in the mountains! Some highlights include:
- Finished the list of 73 by climbing SE Longs with a friend
- Finished the 4 Great Traverses by doing Little Bear - Blanca and the Crestone Traverse (with bonus points for starting with the North Buttress approach over NE Crestone).
- Got 3 more winter 14ers (or 4 if you throw in Longs at the tail end of 2023), including just getting Crestone Peak a few days ago (was hoping to nab Needle yesterday but looks like that will be a 2025 goal now)
- Picked up over a dozen new 13ers, including 6 in winter. Special highlight was Black Mountain - a scrambly route I did without any prior winter beta available to me.
- Did an Uncompahgre summit sleep (fulfilled a bucket list item to spend the night on top of a 14er)
- For calendar grids: 6 months covered for Longs; 7 months covered for Grays/Torreys; 6 months covered for Bierstadt
- 14ers 2nd lap: Down to just 10 more to finish lap 2 - might chip some off that list this winter...
- As for teaming up with folks - it was a mixed bag: a whole lot of solo climbs this year but a few with repeat partners and several with planned and unplanned teaming up on various peaks
- Led some friends up Longs, helped a couple guys up Wetterhorn, and led the Quandary Winter Welcomer West Ridge group.
- Sported a 50lbs pack going up snow covered Quandary; practiced winter car camping and backcountry winter camping, plus took on harder winter climbs - including dealing with ice in the Red Gully - all as prep for a Capitol snowflake...