Crestone Peak

Finally Finishing the F—ing Fourteeners for the Feeble

Sep 2, 2025

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“Don’t smile because it’s over. Cry because it happened.” – Famed Colorado climber and early fourteener finisher Albert Ellingwood via Dr. Seuss, maybe I don’t mean to brag, but my late mother always insisted I was a bona fide genius. Granted, Mom – may she rest in peace – was a bit of an unreliable…