A new Justiner adventure

[Jay521]

There are humans and there are Justins. 'Nuff said.

[SurfNTurf]

Good luck! Looking forward to following along.

[ajkagy]

There are humans and there are Justins. 'Nuff said.

^^^ This. I have a feeling the long ranger is going to crush this. Hoping for good weather and safety for you sir. Looking forward to watching and following along on this attempt.

[derekesq]

Hope Justiner doesn't mind me posting, but this adventure is featured in an article on outside online.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2185376/g ... -mountains

[XterraRob]

“I love being on my bike and out in the middle of nowhere alone,” Simoni says. “During that month where I tackled the fourteeners, every day was a mini epic. One day, a bear ate all my food. One day, I survived only on peanut butter. One day, I got chased off a mountain by a gigantic thunderstorm. It never gets boring.”

“I feel like at this point, I can bulls**t my way through the physical parts. It’s the mental challenges that will be tough,” Simoni says. “Waking up on the side of the road and realizing you have to climb five mountains that day. The crux of this trip is really in your mind.”

Great attitude, good luck Justin!

[chicagostylehotdog]

Looking forward to following this one. I can't wait to see what pointless arguments break out on the forums. Ready your pitchforks, people.

[justiner]

Alright! This is def. getting off the ground, as I happened to be able to grab my Culebra/Red ticket for next Friday, July 21st. Bike is all tuned up, and I'll be leaving Boulder sometime early on the 18th to ride the ~300 miles to the Cielo Vista Ranch, while snagging Pikes Peak along the way. A nice prologue, eh?!

As per Longs Peak FKT tradition, I'll be leaving at the Bustop/Boulder city limits (it's a hilarious place to start, and also close to my house) on Broadway and Lee Hill and will stop the clock after I summit Longs Peak and return to that same spot sometime in September, if all goes well.

Here's a look at the route I plan to follow (but I'm free to take whatever route I would like! so if/when I deviate, no big deal) - I'll be generally trending in a clockwise direction, starting in Boulder, going south to the Sangres, west to the San Juans, northeast to the Sawatch, west to the Elks, East to finish up the Sawatch, then finish up (yadda yadda) with the Mosquito/Tenmile and Front Range.

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I'll have a live tracker up care of http://trackleaders.com and will share that link when it goes live, and I'll post more info when I finalize it. Still hashing out details but some things to keep in mind:

Rules: I'll be doing this as a self-powered, self-supported trip, so no riding in cars at all, and no help following me long the way. One of my goals is to set a precedence for a new self-powered/supported FKT, but it'll kinda be the first of its kind (Only Known Time?)

Rob's amazing trip last year was the first time I heard of anyone doing a Centennial trip by bike. There's some differences in our two adventures in style, so I would rather not compare them too closely when it comes to competing "against" each other (although, Rob, I hope you can chime in with some commentary + insight from your own trip!) - the only thing I'll be racing against is the clock, and my quickly withering peanut butter purchasing funds, which are very, very much finite!

I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of you out in the hills and in town, and if you spot me, say hello! I'll be stoked to meet you (don't be shy!), and please take and share photos, but I do ask that you not plan to come out specifically to meet up with me to specifically try to aid in my trip by providing (say) delicious meals. If you just so happen to be in the area I'm in, it's perfectly fine to share some spontaneous hiking time with me (these mountains are for everyone!) and a gummy bear or two. I'll be happy to see you, but also very, very stinky (you've been warned!)

Peaks: (and armchair mountaineers (using this term with love), chime in if you think my list is wrong, and let's get this finalized so any discussion doesn't revolve around, "what exactly is a Centennial!?, please):

I'll be trying to complete the RANKED Colorado Centennials List as it's uh, listed here:

http://www.climb.mountains.com/Project_ ... _100.shtml

PLUS 5 Colorado 14ers you usually see in 14er speedruns:

Conundrum,
Cameron
North Maroon
North Eolus
El Diente

Roach lists 3 "soft" ranked Centennials to make things more complicated:

“North Massive”
“Drift Peak”
Iowa Peak

These are like, in my way, so I'll most likely be summiting them, but not counting them as part of the proj., because that's super silly. There's a ton of unranked Centennials I may go up and over, but again, it's just style points. So that's actually 105 peaks I'm counting for the proj. to summit. No, Sunlight Spire is not one of them.

Timeline: since there's no previous record for this attempt, I'm giving myself a goal of finishing everything in 60 days or less. 60 days is just a nice round number I came up with - I may come in before, or after - no idea. BUT: 105/60 is: 1.75 summits I need to do each day. You'll know I'm doing well if I'm at or above that number. I'll start WAY below that ratio, and slowly (um, hopefully) move up slightly above that ratio for the rest of the trip. This is very close to the rate which both Joe and I did the 14ers, just you know: more summits to tick off. We may have an easy way to calculate this on the Tracker, if I have time to implement something like that. Other than the tracker, find links to the proj.'s site and insta in my signature to follow along,

[Stevo]

So awesome Justin, can't wait to follow the tracker this summer!!

[polar]

I don't post on the forums anymore, but this is a thread I can get behind! Good luck man, I want to be like you when I grow up! But I don't think I can ever grow a beard like that.

[Phill the Thrill]

Good luck, Justin! That's a heck of a prologue - 300 miles on the bike w/ Pikes Peak summit just to warm up! Really, this project blows my mind, and I look forward to watching your progress. Salute!

[Cygnus X1]

Go get'em Justin! This will be fun to watch. (And yes Eli, this is an adventure. )

[oldschoolczar]

Wow! Good luck on the journey!