Fourteen 14ers – Sponsors

by BRO Admin May 3, 2010

When I look in my sock drawer I see the last decade of expeditions in Smartwool socks. Alaska, Europe, Nepal, Tibet and Pakistan – they are all the super thick mountaineering style wool in ascending order of ‘worn-out-ness’.  I’m reminded of the relationships that have developed over that time – professional and personal.  Everything lined [...]

Fourteen 14ers – Mt Antero 14,269′

by BRO Admin April 21, 2010

Indifference is why I go to the back country. Time without human measure. My grievances with health, equipment, and judgment bear no consequence to the terrain I enter, only to the fickle rational of my influenced intellect. Mt Antero has a 4×4 road almost to the top. Zach and Fritz sorted out the final route to the top while [...]

Fourteen 14ers- Mt Tabeguache 14,155′

by BRO Admin April 20, 2010

It wasn’t a gentle nudge waking me up just after midnight. More of an instantaneous understanding that if I wasn’t outside of my tent in the shortest time possible there would be some smelly consequences… Since my early teens I’ve carried an intestinal hitch-hiker, a viral reminder of my human frailty. In the fraction of [...]

Fourteen 14ers – Mt Shavano 14,229′

by BRO Admin April 15, 2010

Fritz expertly navigated his loaded teal green 4×4 van up the slippery snow and mud covered road below our first peak.  At 9:00 AM we started skiing through snowy sagebrush, across the anti-climatic high plains toward the Mt Shavano/ Tabeguache trailhead. It was already 65 degrees and the plan we agreed to yesterday, for a [...]

April 10 – Annnnnnd, They’re Off!

by ChamonixInsider April 12, 2010

After sorting and resorting the gear the crew packed up the caches and drove halfway around Colorado strategically placing them.

April 9 – Fourteen 14ers: Getting Sorted

by ChamonixInsider April 12, 2010

Greetings from cyberspace. Guest blogger Trey Cook here, organizing (or not) cyber-transmissions from the Fourteen 14ers crew while they’re out gallavanting in the snow. So as you can see I’m a bit slow out of the gate here but y’see we had this huge snowfall that hammered the valley right about the time the Ripper [...]