Highlights
Mountaineering
A listing of my favorite / most challenging-rewarding / or game changing Trip Reports from each year. Tough to pick only a few!
Colorado
- 2014
- Maroon Ski - Life changing ski
- North Maroon Ski - Colorado's extreme skiing test piece
- Crestone, Broken Hand, Princeton Ski
- Blanca & Ellingwood Ski
- 2013
- Crestone Peak - Challenging "winter" climb
- Little Bear, Wetterhorn, Sneffels Ski
- Sangre Ski Classics
- San Juan Ski-athon
- Williams Mountain Traverse - Solo scrambling traverse with many route finding challenges
- Adams Traverse - Solo scrambling traverse with many route finding challenges
- Sangre Marathon - 25mi, 11K vert gain, 8 peaks
- Fryingpan Loop - Solo 10 peak loop with route finding challenges
- 2012
- Snow & Valhalla Peak - Gores - First truly challenging solo scramble in snow
- Grand Traverse - Gores
- Pacific Peak - Killer Couloir snow climb
- Mt Hope - Hopeful Couloir climb and ski - First 50 degree climb & ski
- Torrey Peak - Dead Dog Ski - First 45 degree ski
- 2011
- Castle & Conundrum Gurlz hike - Crazy fun all gals hike
- Navajo & Apache snow climb
- Ice Mtn - Refrigerator Couloir snow climb
- Mt Democrat Ski
- 2010
- Longs Peak - 14er Finisher climb
- South Maroon - Bell Cord snow climb
- Little Bear Snow Climb
- Mt Harvard Ski
- 2009
- Capitol Peak - CO's Hardest Peak
- Crestone Peak - Gurlz Hike - First all gals hike
- 2008
- Mt Wilson - El Diente Traverse TR - First tough Colorado mountaineering experience with fall snow and ice conditions on a scramble traverse
--- All 14ers.com Trip Reports
Washington
- Mt Baker - Cascade Volcano (First Cascade Volcano!)
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