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Kiefer Thomas

Male, 36 years old

Vail, Colorado, United States

Power = 270 (Vote Weight = 92.27%)

Occupation: Professional wanderer!!

A Few Words: There's just something about being in the wilderness whether it's climbing, trad, hiking/treking, ice, jaunting up to a lake or trail-running that connects so strongly with some of us.

It can be a labour of love, a reminder for weekend warriors or an obsessive habit that life doesn't start and end with a shitty 9-5 job, wings at your local pub on Friday nights or reminiscing about times gone by.
The true & pure things in life take work, take time and commitment, nor are they always understood. It's not about 'wanting' to climb or hitting the backcountry, but knowing why you want to.

The wilderness suffers no illusions but puts forth all the magic that one is willing to believe in...no obligations, no commitments, no deadlines, but endless wonder, discovery & growth.
Keep your eye on the prize

♦Fellow SP'ers I've climbed/hiked or had beers with.......

Astrobassman Asphazel ChicagoTransplant stevevets689 rush rkymtn Haliku jfox sgladbach

Muzik Foxy Long Bottoms Shanahan96 Jamie Nellis Slowpoke Roozers42 KM_Donovan JCWhite Gareth

Scott Jimlup Gravity Pilot John Kirk CoDave The Beave7 Castricone7 San Juaneer Sarah Thompson

♦2009/2010 Winter Climbing Plans

• Missouri Mountain • Mt. Oxford • Pyramid Peak • North Maroon Peak • South Maroon Peak • Rio Grande Pyramid

• Castle Peak • Conundrum Peak • Pikes Peak √ Mt. of the Holy Cross • Mt. Evans • Little Bear Peak

• La Plata Peak √ Uncompaghre Peak • Ellingwood Point • Blanca Peak • Mt. Ouray √ Capitol Peak

♦2010 Spring Couloir 'Interests'

• Apostle Couloir • Conundrum Couloir • North Couloir on Democrat • Lake Emma Chutes • Lost Rat

• Bell Cord • North Couloir on Potosi Peak • Russian Couloir on Mt. Lincoln • Keplingers Couloir • Dreamweaver

• Flying Dutchman on Mt. Meeker • American Peak Couloirs • Savage Couloir • Grand Couloir on Mt. Aetna • South Paw Couloir

• Kirk's Couloir on Challenger Peak • Rio Nieve Couloir on RGP

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An exhaustive website of peaks & mountains

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Mountains & Rocks (165)
Notch Mountain & UN 13,248 (Sawatch Range) Mount Tukuhnikivatz (La Sal Mountains) Mt. Peale (Utah County Highpoints) French Mountain (Colorado's Most Prominent Peaks) Casco Peak (Sawatch Range) UN13,823 "Lackawanna Peak" and UN 13,660B (Sawatch Range) California Peak (Sangre de Cristo Mountains) Huerfano Peak (UN 13,828) (Sangre de Cristo Mountains) Mount Oklahoma (Sawatch Range) PT 13736 and Mount Champion (Sawatch Range) PT 13,832 & PT 13,811 (San Juan Range) Navajo Peak (Indian Peaks (CO)) Holy Cross Ridge (UN13,831,UN13,768 & UN13,248) (Sawatch Range) Mount Hood Mount Rainier Father Dyer Peak (Tenmile Range) Atlantic Peak (Tenmile Range) Crystal Peak (Tenmile Range) Pacific Peak (Tenmile Range) Wolverine Peak (Chugach Mountains) Mount McKinley (Denali) Mount Garfield (Badlands Areas) Snowmass Mountain (Colorado 14ers) Joe Mills Mountain (Rocky Mountain National Park) La Malinche (Mexican Volcanoes) Pico de Orizaba (Mexican Volcanoes) Mount Powell (Gore Range) Emerald & Iowa Peaks (Sawatch Range) Eagle Peak (Sangre de Cristo Mountains) Cottonwood Peak (Sangre de Cristo Mountains) Coxcomb Peak (San Juan Range) Leviathan Peak (San Juan Range) Jagged Mountain (San Juan Range) Storm King Peak (San Juan Range) Trinity Peaks (San Juan Range) Arrow Peak, CO (San Juan Range) Vestal Peak (San Juan Range) Windom Peak (Colorado 14ers) Sunlight Peak (Colorado 14ers) Mount Eolus (Colorado 14ers) Gladstone Peak (San Juan Range) Mount Wilson (Colorado 14ers) Mount Ouray (Colorado's Most Prominent Peaks) El Diente (Colorado 14ers) Wilson Peak (Colorado 14ers) Mount Hope (Sawatch Range) North Apostle (Sawatch Range) Ice Mountain (Colorado's Most Prominent Peaks) Peak C (Gore Range) Horsetooth Peak (Front Range (CO)) Lookout Mountain-RMNP (Front Range (CO)) Mount Meeker (Rocky Mountain National Park) Sunshine Mountain (San Juan Range) Phoenix Peak (San Juan Range) Fletcher Mountain (Tenmile Range) The Rio Grande Pyramid (San Juan Range) Grizzly Peak (Colorado's Most Prominent Peaks) Boreas Mountain (Front Range (CO)) McClellan Mountain (Front Range (CO)) Bald Mountain (Front Range (CO)) "Coffeepot" (San Juan Range) Teakettle Mountain (San Juan Range) Mount Sneffels (Colorado 14ers) Grand Traverse Peak (Gore Range) North Traverse Peak (Gore Range) Pyramid Peak (Colorado 14ers) Mt. Tileston (Mummy Range) Bighorn Mountain (RMNP) (Mummy Range) Dallas Peak (San Juan Range) North Maroon Peak (Colorado 14ers) South Maroon Peak (Colorado 14ers) Conundrum Peak (Colorado 14ers) "Lightning Pyramid" (Elk Mountains) Thunder Pyramid (Elk Mountains) Dyer Mountain (Mosquito Range) Gemini Peak (Mosquito Range) Mount Sanitas (Boulder Group) Flagstaff Mountain (Boulder Group) Broken Hill (San Juan Range) American Peak (San Juan Range) Peerless Mountain (Mosquito Range) Mount Sheridan (Mosquito Range) Knobtop Mountain (Rocky Mountain National Park)	Ptarmigan Point (Rocky Mountain National Park) Riscos de la Fortaleza (Tenerife) Pico Viejo (Tenerife) Teide Montaña Blanca (Tenerife) Guajara (Tenerife) Baracàn (Tenerife) Deer Mountain (Front Range (CO)) Dark Mountain (Mummy Range) Horseshoe Mountain (Mosquito Range) Arthur's Rock (Front Range (CO)) Storm Peak (Rocky Mountain National Park) Signal Mountain & South Signal Mountain (Mummy Range) Red Mountain (Sangre de Cristo Mountains) Culebra Peak (Colorado 14ers) Mount Bethel (Front Range (CO)) Point 13,545 & Twining Peak/"Blue Peak" (Colorado's Most Prominent Peaks) Desolation Peaks (Mummy Range) Ypsilon Mountain (Front Range (CO)) Hallett Peak (Rocky Mountain National Park) Homestake Peak (Colorado's Most Prominent Peaks) Kit Carson Peak - Challenger Point (Colorado 14ers) Mount Silverheels (Front Range (CO)) Mount Edwards (Front Range (CO)) Mount Wilcox (Front Range (CO)) Horsetooth Mountain (Front Range (CO)) Ellingwood Point (Colorado 14ers) Blanca Peak (Colorado 14ers) Little Bear Peak (Colorado 14ers) Mount Sniktau (Front Range (CO)) Woods Mountain (Front Range (CO)) Bard Peak (Front Range (CO)) Argentine Peak (Front Range (CO)) Mount Lady Washington (Rocky Mountain National Park) Crosier Mountain (Front Range (CO)) Square Top Mountain (Front Range (CO)) Mount Oxford (Colorado 14ers) Huron Peak (Colorado 14ers) Missouri Mountain (Colorado 14ers) Mount Belford (Colorado 14ers) San Luis Peak (Colorado 14ers) Handies Peak (Colorado 14ers) Castle Peak (Colorado 14ers) Capitol Peak (Colorado 14ers) Tabeguache Peak (Colorado 14ers) Mount Shavano (Colorado 14ers) Mount Yale (Colorado 14ers) Mount Sherman (Colorado 14ers) Quandary Peak (Colorado 14ers) Mount Princeton (Colorado 14ers) Mount Bierstadt (Colorado 14ers) Pikes Peak (Colorado 14ers) Wetterhorn Peak (Colorado) (Colorado 14ers) Sunshine Peak (Colorado 14ers) Redcloud Peak (Colorado 14ers) Longs Peak (Colorado 14ers) Humboldt Peak (Colorado 14ers) Mount Evans (Colorado 14ers) Mount Antero (Colorado 14ers) Torreys Peak (Colorado 14ers) Grays Peak (Colorado 14ers) Holy Cross, Mount of the (Colorado 14ers) Mount Columbia (Colorado 14ers) Mount Harvard (Colorado 14ers) Crestone Needle (Colorado 14ers) Mount Chapin (Mummy Range) Mount Chiquita (Mummy Range) Twin Sisters Peaks (Rocky Mountain National Park) Flattop Mountain (Rocky Mountain National Park) Mount Democrat (Colorado 14ers) Mount Bross (Colorado 14ers) Mount Cameron (Colorado 14ers) Mount Lincoln (Colorado 14ers) Uncompahgre Peak (Colorado 14ers) La Plata Peak (Colorado 14ers) Crestone Peak (Colorado 14ers) Mount Lindsey (Colorado 14ers) Geissler Mountain (Sawatch Range) Mount Massive (Colorado 14ers) Estes Cone (Rocky Mountain National Park) Mount Elbert (Colorado 14ers) Mount Parnassus (Front Range (CO))
Routes (27)
The Razor Fang (Mt. Peale) North Face via Navajo Snowfield (Navajo Peak) Kiener's Route (Longs Peak) South Side (Hogsback) (Mount Hood) Disappointment Cleaver (Mount Rainier) North Couloir (Pacific Peak) Sawtooth (Mount Bierstadt) Angel of Shavano (Mount Shavano) North "O.B. Couloir" (Kat Litter Chute) (Kit Carson Peak - Challenger Point) Trough (Longs Peak) Trinities Traverse (Trinity Peaks) Wham Ridge (Vestal Peak) Refrigerator Couloir (Ice Mountain) Dead Dog Couloir (Torreys Peak)	Iron Gates (Mount Meeker) South Ridge 3rd Class Route (Mount Sneffels) Cristo Couloir (Quandary Peak) Northwest Ridge (Pyramid Peak) The Grand Traverse (Grand Traverse Peak) Kelso Ridge (Torreys Peak) West Face via White Couloir (Thunder Pyramid) Victory Couloir (American Peak) Northwest Couloir (Crestone Peak) West Ridge (Little Bear Peak) Aztec Butte (Island in the Sky, Canyonlands Nat Park) Syncline Loop & Upheaval Dome (Island in the Sky, Canyonlands Nat Park) Whale Rock (Island in the Sky, Canyonlands Nat Park)
Canyons (13)
Crescent Canyon Sagers Canyon Thompson Canyon Red Canyon Iron Wash and Lone Man Draw (San Rafael Swell) Horseshoe Canyon (Canyonlands National Park) Black Canyon of the Gunnison	Little Wild Horse and Bell Canyons (San Rafael Swell) Chute Canyon (San Rafael Swell) Crack Canyon (San Rafael Swell) Bryce Canyon National Park (Badlands Areas) Grand Canyon National Park Goblin Valley (San Rafael Swell)




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