Colorado fourteeners: seriously everything you need to know before you go

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Colorado fourteeners: seriously everything you need to know before you go

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From today's Denver post, includes a shout out for 14ers.com:

Colorado fourteeners: seriously everything you need to know before you go
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I wonder what fraction of the seventy thousand people who moved to Colorado this year will become 14er hikers?
Its important to repeat outdoors safety articles regularly for all the newbies.
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"If you want to argue over what, exactly, constitutes a fourteener, 14ers.com is a good place to engage in that battle."

QFT. :lol:
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peter303 wrote:I wonder what fraction of the seventy thousand people who moved to Colorado this year will become 14er hikers?
Its important to repeat outdoors safety articles regularly for all the newbies.
69,999 left in question, I'm a newly moved hiker lol

But I've been reading here since probably early 2015 with no tangible date of when/if I was moving to CO. Good bit of experience, just new to altitude.
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CamKelley wrote:
peter303 wrote:I wonder what fraction of the seventy thousand people who moved to Colorado this year will become 14er hikers?
Its important to repeat outdoors safety articles regularly for all the newbies.
69,999 left in question, I'm a newly moved hiker lol

But I've been reading here since probably early 2015 with no tangible date of when/if I was moving to CO. Good bit of experience, just new to altitude.
Same story here, so 69,998 now. And in those couple years of reading, I would absolutely agree that 14ers.com is THE place to argue over what, exactly, a fourteener is and how one ought to properly reach the summit :lol: