Is there a workable line on Capital or is it more of just a descending traverse?Gueza wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 3:40 am Hell yeah!!! I tried to be the youngest once upon a time but got shut down by Cap for years - incredible effort. I hope this project has meant as much to you all as it has to me. Way to bring the stoke guys, and congratulations to Ben!!!
Sean you are probably next.
Cheers!
akcasey12 skis the 14ers!
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Re: akcasey12 skis the 14ers!
Traveling light is the only way to fly.
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Re: akcasey12 skis the 14ers!
Congrats!
Jorts- there are at least 6 ski routes on Cap, surprisingly. All with varying levels of down climbing and/or rappels. Most typically the summit is skied (with some traversing but also a few good turns) to the secret chute with a quick down climb or rap into the couloir leading into Pierre Lakes.
Jorts- there are at least 6 ski routes on Cap, surprisingly. All with varying levels of down climbing and/or rappels. Most typically the summit is skied (with some traversing but also a few good turns) to the secret chute with a quick down climb or rap into the couloir leading into Pierre Lakes.
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akcasey12
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Thanks everyone for your stoke and kind words!
Thanks Sean for everything you've done to make this happen. It has been a great ride and I really could not have done it without you! Excited to see you finish next year and move on to cooler peaks!
Thanks Sean for everything you've done to make this happen. It has been a great ride and I really could not have done it without you! Excited to see you finish next year and move on to cooler peaks!
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Congratulations on completing your quest to ski all of the Colorado 14ers, Ben! 
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Congratulations, Ben! That’s a very impressive accomplishment, much harder than climbing the 14ers in summer conditions like most of us do.
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Takes a lot of work, planning and patience to finish a project like that. Congrats on an awesome achievement!
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Awesomeness, inspirational, me and my brother have been working at this for 25 years and will probably never finish, ha ha ha. Would have been better to do them back in my 20s, when I thought I would live forever.
Re: akcasey12 skis the 14ers!
Congratulations! What an impressive accomplishment!
“Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.” -David McCullough?
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Congrats!
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. -Nelson Mandela
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego. -Nietzsche
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego. -Nietzsche
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woot woot! Very impressive. Congrats
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Congrats, that is awesome. Any time you can put yourself ahead of Jordan White on a ski mountaineering list you must be doing something special.
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Congratulations on a very impressive accomplishment!
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. - Mahatma Gandhi
To be aware is to be alive!
To be aware is to be alive!
