Camp 1- Kahiltna Glacier

Male, 40 years old

Estes Park, Colorado, United States

Power = 327 (Vote Weight = 92.89%)

A Few Words:

"Life is given to each of us only once. Success is rare. But there's nothing strange in the decision to take up climbing. It's a completely understandable phenomenon that stems from the desire to be out in nature.
Step by step, the first trips into the mountains lead you farther and higher. The strangeness only begins when climbing becomes a competition. Then you start to wonder: Why does someone consciously undertake difficulty and risk? Why does he submit himselfto the unpleasent and useless?
It becomes unclear what the purpose is, what the result of all this effort is in the end-of the demolished fortunes and the maimed bodies, of the unbelievable sums of money spent and the loved ones discarded."
----Denis Urubko Blogspot

"If we find people virtuous or admirable in one respect, it troubles us to find them not so in another respect. It is difficult for us to acknowledge that people ARE NOT consistent, but instead, mosaics of traits formed by different sets of experiences that often do not correlate with each other...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."
---Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs & Steel) (Collapse)

“The individual has always had to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high for the privledge of owning yourself.”
---F. Nitsche

Summer 2013 Plans

Ormes Buttress	Ellingwood Arête
NW Buttress (Capitol Peak)	Petit Grepon
Finish the Centennials (Colorado)
Pigeon Peak	Jones Peak
Turett Peak	Mt. Adams
Jupitor Mountain	Vermilion Peak

Cool random debris & some favourites

A smattering of pictures

Quest to climb Colorado's 14ers- Calender Winter (33/57)
Quandary Peak	Mt. Democrat	Mt. Lincoln	Mt. Bross	Longs Peak
Pikes Peak	Mt. Evans	Mt. Bierstadt	Crestone Needle	Crestone Peak
Mt. Humboldt	Challenger Peak	Kit Carson	Little Bear Peak	Mt. Lindsey
Blanca Peak	Ellingwood Point	Capitol Peak	Snowmass Mountain	N. Maroon Peak
S. Maroon Peak	Pyramid Peak	Castle Peak	Conundrum Peak	El Diente
Mt. Wilson	Wilson Peak	Handies Peak	Redcloud Peak	Sunshine Peak
Eolus Peak	Sunlight Peak	Windom Peak	N. Eolus Peak	Grays Peak
Torreys Peak	Mt. Sherman	Mt. Elbert	Mt. Massive	La Plata Peak
Mt. of the Holy Cross	Mt. Antero	Mt. Princeton	Mt. Yale	Mt. Columbia
Mt. Harvard	Mt. Belford	Mt. Oxford	Tabguache	Mt. Shavano
Huron Peak	Missouri Mtn.	Wetterhorn Peak	Uncompaghre Peak	Mt. Sneffels
San Luis Peak	Culebra Peak

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Member Since Jan 19, 2006, Last Active: May 20, 2013

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