Of Mice and Mountaineers

Much Ado about Nothingburgers

Of Mice and Mountaineers' final planned episode (at least as of its release) ties up as many loose ends as possible about mountains that most definitely did not need ropes but did seem to have me knotted up nevertheless, then leaves room for a future free of obsession over mountainous pursuits that are more about pure fun than filling out some checklist or another...ahh, who am I kidding? If this episode, like all its predecessors, is anything to go by, the spirit of compulsion will always be starving! Written version: https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.php?trip=23282

At the Mountains of Madness and Meekness

Being done with 14,000' mountains in Colorado did not mean mountains were done with me...after all, there were a select few 13,000' mountains that still had me under their spell, such as Mt. Meeker, the nearly next-door neighbor of the Longs Peak, a.k.a. the first fourteener that tried to kill me. With such an intimidating shadow looming as I went after its little sibling, what could possibly go wrong?!

A Completely Objective List of Colorado’s Fourteeners Ranked from Worst to Best That Absolutely Nobody Could Ever Argue With

After finishing Colorado's fourteeners, what better way to pay all my accumulated experience and knowledge forward than to give others a guide as to which to prioritize in a completely objective fashion?

Finally Finishing the F---ing Fourteeners for the Feeble

After eighteen years (or nineteen, depending on how one decided to count), I was finally on the verge of climbing my last of Colorado's 58 officially designated 14,000' peaks...as long as I could finally prove I had learned enough from the first 57 to avoid serious self-sabotage. Written version: https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.php?trip=22333

The Penultimate Prick

My second-to-last new fourteener wasn't much fun to climb, but thanks to the second part of Crestone Needle's name, I was able to have some fun by taking numerous jabs at it that were in absolutely no way salacious, haha, in the writing that followed. Written version: https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.php?trip=22324