RICK CRANDALL

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Fourteeners are mountains whose summits are over 14,000’ – Each one is a different climbing experience.

Here are their stories.

The Toughest

Capitol Peak: The King of Them All

Little Bear Peak – the Bad Boy

Caught in a Thunderstorm

San Luis Peak

Crestone Peak

Mt Harvard and Columbia – thunderstorm in a tent

Storm forecasting – Mt Shavano

Indian Lore

Blanca Peak – The Chief’s Headdress

Mount of the Holy Cross

Mt Shavano – Angel of Shavano

Animal Contact

Mountain Goats – Pyramid Peak

Bear – Blanca Peak

North Maroon Peak – Amazing Goat on Summit

Big Horn Sheep – Ellingwood Pt

Albino Marmot on Mt. Massive

Fun Stories

Full moon climb – Mt Belford & Mt Oxford

Kit Carson Peak and Challenger Point

Glissading – Castle Peak and Conundrum Peak

Blanca Peak – Eagle Feathers for Chief Headdress

Four Fourteeners In One Day

Climbing a NY Skyscraper

Pikes Peak – my final fourteener

Humboldt Peak in an Eclipse

Mt. Princeton on my Birthday

Sunlight Peak and the Durango & Silverton steam locomotive

Wilson Peak – Finding gold

Tabegauche Peak

Other Challenging Climbs

Mt Wilson

El Diente

Snowmass Mountain

Longs Peak – the deadliest of them all

South Maroon Peak

Windom Peak – 4 tries and a cool summit

Wilson Peak – iconic from Telluride

Mt. Eolus

Mt. Lindsey

The Sawtooth from Beirstadt to Mt Evans

The Easiest Climbs

Mt Elbert – 2^nd highest

Mt Belford & Mt Oxford

Culebra Peak – Stations of the Cross

Huron Peak

Some Challenging Thirteeners

Mt Daly – with the stripe

Mountain Boy Peak

Grizzly Peak

Buffalo Peaks

Climbs with a Small Dog (Emme)

Missouri Peak

Mt Antero – Aquamarines

Redcloud & Sunshine

Four Fourteeners in One Day

Yale Mountain

Grays & Torreys

Mountain Boy – first one with Emme

Twining Peak

Mt Sopris – the Icon

Emme Tribute

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African Safari

Climbing a New York City Skyscraper

In Hudson Yards, NYC there is a building called the Edge that has the highest cantilevered deck in North America at the 100th floor. We elevatored to there and then went outside to climb to the top!

Eight Days Rafting the Entire Grand Canyon

Mt. Sherman Revisited

After four years passing from finishing climbing all 58 fourteeners, I am back at a summit on Mt. Sherman with Mona Long.

Brother Wayne Doing More Than Just Dancing with a Dolphin

My Favorite 14er Climb Stories

San Luis Peak – via Creede and the South Ridge

A shocking (literally hair-raising) story. We found this approach was the best. Even summiting at 10am we got hit by multiple electrical storm cells that arose with no warning and discharged into us right at summit! We ran and got sufficiently down before the discharges took the form of full lightning bolts.

Automatic Crystal Parlor Fountains

Based on a pneumatic principle by physicist Heron of Alexandria in AD 62, the Automatic Crystal Fountain combines beauty with captivating geyser-like fountain using no apparent motive power.

A Selection of Phonoliszt-Violina Music Recordings

El Diente – Climbing a hard Fourteener

El Diente – A Hard Mountain in the San Juan Range El Diente is not often climbed and indeed it has its challenges. We liked the south ridge approach from the Kilpacker trailhead. From that direction the view of El Diente is impressive and the Kilpacker Basin is a feast for the eyes.

Mt. Daly – the “one with the stripe”

Mt. Daly is on the other side of the saddle from Capitol Peak. It is one of the most visible mountains to those traveling between Aspen and Snowmass. While not a 14er, it is a named 13er with a fun Class 3 ridge-crest climb that is less frequently done. There is also not much written about the best way up, solved here in this story.