Mountaineering Biography

Outside Colorado:
This is a short list. I never really enjoyed travel outside Colorado.

Mount Rainier - 14,411' Washington - July 1993, & June 1998
Denali - 20,237' Alaska - June 1995  View My Denali Story
Grand Teton - 13,775' Wyoming - July 1996
Mount Whitney - 14,505' California - 1995
Humphreys Peak - 12,637' Arizona 1997

Colorado:
For over twenty years I was an avid peak-bagger. During that time I concentrated on climbing peaks that were on the following lists:

The Colorado Fourteeners – I completed this list twice
     This list consists of between 53 and 59 peaks, depending upon the criteria used.
The Highest Hundred – I completed this list
The Bi-Centennials – I completed 43 peaks on this list
Winter 14ers - I completed 22 peaks on this list
The Grid - I completed 255 of the 708 peaks on the list 36% View My Grid

Starting with my first Colorado fourteener ascent in July 1990, the following is a list of all the Colorado peaks that I have climbed to date. In summary, I have made a total of 418 fourteener ascents, some over 30 times (Grays Peak 36 Quandary Peak 34, Mount Bierstadt 43), and have climbed approximately 275 distinct Colorado peaks during approximately 860 ascents.

Mountain Elevation Mtn Range
Ascents
Elbert, Mount 14,433' Sawatch 18
Massive, Mount 14,421' Sawatch 5
Harvard, Mount 14,420' Sawatch 7
Blanca Peak 14,345' Sangre de Cristo 2
"North Massive" 14,340' Sawatch 1
La Plata Peak 14,336' Sawatch 8
Uncompahgre Peak 14,309' San Juan 3
"Massive Green" 14,300' Sawatch 1
Crestone Peak 14,294' Sangre de Cristo 2
Lincoln, Mount 14,286' Tenmile/Mosquito 9
Grays Peak 14,270' Front 36
Antero, Mount 14,269' Sawatch 9
Torreys Peak 14,267' Front 21
Castle Peak 14,265' Elk 5
Quandary Peak 14,265' Tenmile/Mosquito 34
Evans A, Mount 14,264' Front 2
"East Crestone" 14,260' Sangre de Cristo 1
"West Evans" 14,256' Front 3
Longs Peak 14,255' Front 9
Wilson, Mount 14,246' San Juan 2
Cameron, Mount 14,238' Tenmile/Mosquito 10
Shavano, Mount 14,229' Sawatch 12
Crestone Needle 14,197' Sangre de Cristo 2
Princeton, Mount 14,197' Sawatch 7
Belford, Mount 14,197' Sawatch 13
Yale, Mount 14,196' Sawatch 10
Bross A, Mount 14,172' Tenmile/Mosquito 8
Kit Carson Mountain 14,165' Sangre de Cristo 3
El Diente 14,159' San Juan 2
Maroon Peak 14,156' Elk 3
Tabeguache Peak 14,155' Sawatch 4
Oxford, Mount 14,153' Sawatch 8
Sneffels, Mount 14,150' San Juan 2
Democrat, Mount 14,148' Tenmile/Mosquito 9
Capitol Peak 14,130' Elk 2
Pikes Peak 14,110' Front 7
Snowmass Mountain 14,092' Elk 2
Eolus, Mount 14,083' San Juan 2
Windom Peak 14,082' San Juan 3
Challenger Point 14,081' Sangre de Cristo 2
Columbia, Mount 14,073' Sawatch 6
Missouri Mountain 14,067' Sawatch 6
Humboldt Peak 14,064' Sangre de Cristo 6
Conundrum Peak 14,060' Elk 2
Bierstadt, Mount 14,060' Front 43
Sunlight Peak A 14,059' San Juan 2
Handies Peak 14,048' San Juan 7
Culebra Peak 14,047' Sangre de Cristo 2
Lindsey, Mount 14,042' Sangre de Cristo 3
Ellingwood Point 14,042' Sangre de Cristo 2
North Eolus 14,039' San Juan 2
Little Bear Peak 14,037' Sangre de Cristo 2
Sherman, Mount 14,036' Tenmile/Mosquito 11
Redcloud Peak 14,034' San Juan 4
Pyramid Peak A 14,018' Elk 3
Wilson Peak 14,017' San Juan 2
Wetterhorn Peak 14,015' San Juan 5
San Luis Peak 14,014' San Juan 2
North Maroon Peak 14,014' Elk 2
Holy Cross, Mt of the 14,005' Sawatch 6
Huron Peak 14,003' Sawatch 7
Sunshine Peak 14,001' San Juan 4
Grizzly Peak 13,995' Sawatch 2
Stewart Peak 13,989' San Juan 2
Columbia Point 13,980' Sangre de Cristo 1
"Kitty Kat Carson" 13,980' Sangre de Cristo 2
Pigeon Peak 13,972' San Juan 2
Ouray, Mount 13,971' Sawatch 2
Ice Mountain 13,951' Sawatch 2
Fletcher Mountain 13,951' Tenmile/Mosquito 2
Gemini Peak 13,951' Tenmile/Mosquito 2
Pacific Peak 13,950' Tenmile/Mosquito 2
Cathedral Peak A 13,943' Elk 2
French Mountain 13,940' Sawatch 3
Hope A, Mount 13,933' Sawatch 4
"Thunder Pyramid" 13,932' Elk 2
Adams A, Mount 13,931' Sangre de Cristo 2
Gladstone Peak 13,913' San Juan 2
Meeker, Mount 13,911' Front 3
Casco Peak 13,908' Sawatch 2
Red Mountain A 13,908' Sangre de Cristo 1
Emerald Peak 13,904' Sawatch 1
"Drift Peak" 13,900' Tenmile/Mosquito 1
Horseshoe Mountain A 13,898' Tenmile/Mosquito 2
"Phoenix Peak" 13,895' San Juan 2
Vermilion Peak 13,894' San Juan 1
Frasco Benchmark 13,876' Sawatch 2
Cronin Peak 13,870' Sawatch 2
Buckskin, Mount 13,865' Tenmile/Mosquito 2
Vestal Peak 13,864' San Juan 1
Jones Mountain A 13,860' San Juan 1
North Apostle 13,860' Sawatch 2
Meeker Ridge 13,860' Front 1
Clinton Peak 13,857' Tenmile/Mosquito 2
Dyer Mountain 13,855' Tenmile/Mosquito 2
Crystal Peak A 13,852' Tenmile/Mosquito 1
Traver Peak 13,852' Tenmile/Mosquito 2
Edwards, Mount 13,850' Front 3
California Peak 13,849' Sangre de Cristo 1
Oklahoma, Mount 13,845' Sawatch 2
Spalding, Mount 13,842' Front 3
Half Peak 13,841' San Juan 2
Atlantic Peak 13,841' Tenmile/Mosquito 5
Hagerman Peak 13,841' Elk 2
Turret Peak A 13,835' San Juan 2
13832 13,832' San Juan 2
Holy Cross Ridge 13,831' Sawatch 1
Iowa Peak 13,831' Sawatch 1
Jupiter Mountain 13,830' San Juan 2
"Huerfano Peak" 13,828' Sangre de Cristo 2
Jagged Mountain 13,824' San Juan 2
"Lackawanna Peak" 13,823' Sawatch 2
Silverheels, Mount 13,822' Front 3
Rio Grande Pyramid 13,821' San Juan 1
Teakettle Mountain 13,819' San Juan 3
13811 13,811' San Juan 2
Dallas Peak 13,809' San Juan 2
Niagara Peak 13,807' San Juan 1
"Castleabra" 13,803' Elk 1
"Obstruction Peak" 13,799' Sangre de Cristo 2
Arkansas, Mount 13,795' Tenmile/Mosquito 1
Square Top Mtn A 13,794' Front 10
Potosi Peak 13,786' San Juan 1
Rinker Peak 13,783' Sawatch 1
Mosquito Peak 13,781' Tenmile/Mosquito 1
Garfield Peak A 13,780' Sawatch 1
McNamee Peak 13,780' Tenmile/Mosquito 1
Deer Mountain A 13,761' Sawatch 1
Bull Hill A 13,761' Sawatch 2
Fuller Peak 13,761' San Juan 1
Sheridan, Mount 13,748' Tenmile/Mosquito 2
Aetna, Mount 13,745' Sawatch 1
Ptarmigan Peak A 13,739' Tenmile/Mosquito 1
Argentine Peak 13,738' Front 2
13736 13,736' Sawatch 1
Twining Peak 13,711' Sawatch 1
Treasurevault Mountain 13,701' Tenmile/Mosquito 1
Baldy Alto 13,698' San Juan 1
Loveland Mountain 13,692' Tenmile/Mosquito 3
"Every Mountain" 13,691' San Juan 1
"Cooper Creek Peak" 13,688' San Juan 1
Bald Mountain A 13,684' Front 1
"Quarter Peak" 13,674' San Juan 1
Tweto, Mount 13,672' Tenmile/Mosquito 1
White, Mount 13,667' Sawatch 1
Carbonate Mountain A 13,663' Sawatch 1
Wood Mountain A 13,660' San Juan 2
Coxcomb Peak 13,656' San Juan 1
Taylor Mountain A 13,651' Sawatch 2
Champion, Mount 13,646' Sawatch 1
Redcliff 13,642' San Juan 1
Bard Peak 13,641' Front 2
"Electric Pass Peak" 13,635' Elk 1
Peak 10 13,633' Tenmile/Mosquito 2
"Anderson Peak" 13,631' Sawatch 1
13626 13,626' Sawatch 1
West Spanish Peak 13,626' Sangre de Cristo 1
Blaurock, Mount 13,616' Sawatch 1
North Star Mountain 13,614' Tenmile/Mosquito 1
Gray Wolf Mountain 13,602' Front 4
Cyclone Mountain A 13,596' Sawatch 1
Matterhorn Peak 13,590' San Juan 2
Cottonwood Peak A 13,588' Sangre de Cristo 1
McClellan Mountain 13,587' Front 1
Powell A, Mount 13,580' Gore 1
Rosalie Peak 13,575' Front 1
Chiefs Head Peak 13,579' Front 1
Parnassus, Mount 13,574' Front 7
"Coffeepot" 13,568' San Juan 1
"Gudy Peak" 13,566' San Juan 1
Pettingell Peak 13,553' Front 2
Whitecross Mountain 13,542' San Juan 1
13541 13,541' Sangre de Cristo 1
Browns Peak 13,523' Sawatch 1
North Arapaho Peak 13,502' Front 5
Iron Nipple 13,500' Sangre de Cristo 1
Pagoda Mountain 13,497' Front 1
Quail Mountain 13,461' Sawatch 2
Apache Peak 13,441' Front 1
Grizzly Peak D 13,427' Front 12
Navajo Peak A 13,409' Front 2
Wilcox, Mount 13,408' Front 3
South Arapaho Peak 13,397' Front 17
Parry Peak A 13,391' Front 2
Rogers Peak 13,391' Front 1
Guyot, Mount 13,370' Front 1
Buckskin Benchmark 13,370' Elk 3
Engelmann Peak 13,362' Front 2
Peerless Mountain 13,348' Tenmile/Mosquito 1
McHenrys Peak 13,327' Front 2
Storm Peak B 13,326' Front 6
Leahy Peak 13,322' Elk 1
Alice, Mount 13,310' Front 1
"Citadel, The" 13,294' Front 5
James Peak 13,294' Front 3
Lady Washington, Mount 13,281' Front 18
Ruby Mountain A 13,277' Front 1
Marble Mountain A 13,266' Sangre de Cristo 1
Bancroft, Mount 13,250' Front 2
Notch Mountain 13,237' Sawatch 1
Sniktau, Mount 13,234' Front 6
Red Mountain C 13,229' Front 1
Audubon, Mount 13,223' Front 12
Hagar Mountain 13,220' Front 1
"Hassell Peak" 13,215' Front 1
Jacque Peak 13,205' Gore 1
Lenawee Mountain 13,204' Front 1
Red Peak B 13,189' Gore 1
Santa Fe Peak 13,180' Front 1
Kelso Mountain 13,164' Front 8
Taylor Peak B 13,153' Front 1
Robeson Peak 13,140' Front 2
Sullivan Mountain 13,134' Front 1
Eva, Mount 13,130' Front 1
Isolation Peak 13,118' Front 1
"Cupid" 13,117' Front 13
Paiute Peak 13,088' Front 2
Keller Mountain 13,085' Gore 1
Boreas Mountain 13,082' Front 1
Winfield Peak 13,077' Sawatch 1
13070 13,070' Sawatch 1
Chiquita, Mount 13,069' Front 1
"Old Baldy" 13,038' Front 1
Hope Mountain 13,012' San Juan 11
"Golden Bear Peak" 13,010' Front 1
Toll, Mount 12,979' Front 1
Shoshoni Peak 12,967' Front 2
Pawnee Peak 12,943' Front 1
Woods Mountain 12,940' Front 1
Jasper, Mount 12,923' Front 1
Ida, Mount 12,900' Front 1
Logan A, Mount 12,870' Front 1
Elk Tooth 12,848' Front 1
Wulsten Baldy 12,823' Sangre de Cristo 1
Neva, Mount 12,814' Front 2
Machebeuf, Mount 12,805' Front 1
Cooper Mountain A 12,792' Front 1
12780 C 12,780' Sangre de Cristo 1
12751 12,751' Pitkin 1
Hallett Peak 12,713' Front 1
"Notabon, Mount" 12,706' Front 2
Bethel, Mount 12,705' Front 1
Thatchtop 12,668' Front 1
12585 12,585' Front 1
Spearhead, The 12,575' Front 1
Stanley Mountain 12,521' Front 1
Mahler, Mount 12,493' Never Summer 2
Otis Peak 12,486' Front 3
Chapin, Mount 12,454' Front 1
Bison Peak 12,431' Front 1
Republican Mountain 12,386' Front 1
"Skyscraper Peak" 12,383' Front 1
Flattop Mountain A 12,324' Front 5
Sawtooth Mountain B 12,304' Front 1
Ute Peak A 12,303' E Williams Fork Mtns 1
"Quarter to 5 Peak" 12,300' Front 1
Saint Vrain Mountain 12,162' Front 2
Battle Mountain A 12,044' Front 1
Satanta Peak 11,979' Front 2
Lone Eagle Peak 11,940' Front 3
Orton, Mount 11,724' Front 1
Meadow Mountain B 11,632' Front 4
Niwot Mountain 11,471' Front 11
Twin Sisters Peak East 11,428' Front 3
Twin Sisters Peak West 11,413' Front 3
Estes Cone 11,006' Front 5
Dark Mountain 10,859' Front 1
Thorodin Mountain 10,540' Front 4
South Boulder Peak 8,549' Front
Bear Peak B 8,461' Front
Green Mountain R 8,144' Front
Flagstaff Mountain B 6,980' Front
Sanitas, Mount 6,863' Front
"Sanitas Mtneer Top" 6,820' Front

Peak-bagging can be a healthy and rewarding hobby, one that will take you into beautiful remote alpine areas that few people get a chance to see. It's a endeavor that I highly recommend, but with a caveat. It is not one without danger, and the lists can get people who don't know their limits, over  their heads and into trouble. The annual publication of Accidents In North American Mountaineering is full of stories about peak-baggers who were over their heads on the harder fourteeners, and suffered deadly consequences.

Be prepared... Peak-bagging also involves a lot of driving to distant locations and on lots of 4WD roads to climb to some high peaks. And beware...for some people (myself included) the high (pun intended) can become addictive and all-consuming.

This period of my life was one one the most exciting, and one that I will fondly remember, but over the past few years my passion for climbing has waned and somewhere along the line I lost what I used to refer to as "The Shine"

I still climb, but I have resigned from the lists. I quit the game of peak-bagging, but not before giving it a pretty decent run.