In July of 1988, I climbed my first fourteeners, Grays and Torreys, with my friend Joe and his family. Little did I know that the seeds had been sown for a journey that would take me to the most beautiful places in my home state of Colorado. As soon as I could drive, I started climbing the other fourteeners, eventually climbing my 54th and final 14,000’ peak in September of 1996.
Since that time, I have continued to climb Colorado’s peaks, whether 14,000’ or not. My truest passion, however, has always been skiing, something I have been doing for over 100 days a year for more than a decade. When I skied off the summit of Pyramid on April 20, 2006, the fourteeners once again called my name loudly. After all, we had just skied one of the hardest fourteeners (and had also skied from 13,600’ on Capitol a week later), so why not just ski them all? During 2006, Chris Davenport skied most of the fourteeners, and finished his project the following year to become just the second skier to ski them all. Legendary Lou Dawson was the first, finishing way back in 1991. I owe a large amount of inspiration to these two skiers (not to mention other pioneers like Chris Landry and Fritz Stammberger). I would be remiss if I didn’t also mention my most consistently motivated partner as well, Brittany Walker, who has just nine peaks to go at the start of the ‘08-’09 season. I’d like to give thanks to some of the other people who skied with me or gave me advice, such as Sean Crossen, Pete Sowar, Chris Webster, Pam Rice, Scott Yost, Jeremy Wegner, John Jasper, and so many more (sorry for those I forgot). On May 17, 2008, Brittany and I skied Mt. Harvard, marking my 54th and final fourteener and making me just the fourth person to ski all the fourteeners.
While I may have skied all the fourteeners at this point, it marks just another point on my ski mountaineering career, one which I have no plans of ending anytime soon. I hope you enjoy all of our adventures on this website, whether at 14,000′ or not.
Elbert 6-5-06
Massive 3-24-08
Harvard 5-17-06
Blanca 5-10-07
La Plata 6-12-06
Uncompahgre 3-26-07
Crestone 3-4-07
Lincoln11-25-06
Grays 6-1-95 No TR
Antero 5-16-07
Torreys 6-29-96 No TR
Castle 5-30-06
Quandary 4-7-07
Evans 5-21-07
Longs 5-4-08
Mt Wilson 5-15-06
Shavano 4-8-07
Crestone Needle 3-12-07
Belford 4-27-07
Princeton 4-8-07
Yale 2-5-07
Bross 11-25-07
Kit Carson 4-6-08
El Diente 5-15-06
Maroon 5-?-03
Tabeguache 5-19-07
Oxford 4-27-07
Sneffels 6-?-99? No TR
Democrat 5-15-07
Capitol 4-28-08
Pikes 5-13-07
Snowmass 4-?-05
Eolus 5-10-08
Windom 5-11-08
Columbia 5-8-07
Missouri 4-14-07
Humboldt 4-29-07
Bierstadt 5-3-07
Sunlight 5-11-08
Handies 5-27-07
Culebra 3-9-08
Ellingwood 5-10-07
Lindsey 4-22-07
Little Bear 5-11-07
Sherman 3-11-07
Redcloud 5-26-07
Pyramid 4-20-06
Wilson Peak 5-7-06
Wetterhorn 6-?-04 No TR
North Maroon 6-3-07
San Luis 5-28-07
Huron 6-19-06
Holy Cross 4-19-08
Sunshine 5-26-07
