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\u2019 peak in September of 1996.<\/p>\n
Since that time, I have continued to climb Colorado\u2019s peaks, whether 14,000\u2019 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\u2019 on Capitol a week later), so why not just ski them all? During 2006, Chris Davenport<\/a> 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<\/a> 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\u2019t also mention my most consistently motivated partner as well, Brittany Walker<\/a>, who has now also skied them all. 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, Jordan White, 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 (Ted Mahon being the third) to ski all the fourteeners. In 2009, Jordan White and Joe Brannan finished skiing the fourteeners, and in 2010 Jarrett Luttrell (1st snowboarder) and Christy Mahon (1st woman) also finished. Brittany Walker, the better half of 14erskiers, finished in 2011. The horrible winter of 2012 resulted in no one completing their list, but a good spring in 2013 saw tw more finishers: Carl Dowdy and Matt Kamper, the tenth and eleventh finishers. In 2014, Marc Barella became the 2nd snowboarder and 12th person to ride down the fourteeners, followed by Austin Porzak (13th) and Michael Steinman (14th) in 2015.<\/p>\n The above list represents the finishers known to us through 2015. Perhaps there are more who have finished before us, and there certainly will be more to finish after. If you have finished, or know someone who has but would prefer to stay anonymous, feel free to contact us<\/a>. We’d be more than happy to add anonymous finishers to the list simply to complete the list.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n