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Much Ado about Nothingburgers

Sep 23, 2025

Podcast write-ups, Rocky Mountains

adventure, checklists, Colorado, finales, Front Range, goodbye for now, hiking, mountains, quests, Rocky Mountains, series finales, thirteeners, travel, wrap-up

Note: this is the finisher-of-sorts (for the moment, anyway) write-up I used as a script/visual accompaniment to Of Mice and Mountaineers, my podcast about my personal peakbagging travails. As one might expect for a series that totaled over 250,000 (yes, that is the correct number of zeroes) words in length, this finale (for the moment, etc.) is,…
At the Mountains of Madness and Meekness

Sep 16, 2025

Podcast write-ups, Rocky Mountains

adventure, Centennials, Colorado, hiking, mountains, National Parks, Rocky Mountain National Park, Rocky Mountains, thirteeners, travel

Note: Even though he wasn’t on this particular outing with us, I would once again like to direct people to SpringsDuke’s actually useful trip report giving a much less rambling and more generously photographed account of this particular route. That write-up was certainly invaluable to us, his partners from a winter Bierstadt and spring Little Bear, in…