PeakMind

I started keeping a written list of climbing goals in 1997 and can remember making mental lists as far back as 1992.  I think goals in general are an important way to have a purposeful life (i.e., balancing the long-term important with the short term urgent).  My top climbing goals that I have proudly completed are listed at the bottom of this page, preceded with a list of my lists of goals I keep for the fun of it.  Clearly I am making it harder on myself by not having any discernible focus to my efforts, but making and keeping lists is a source of pleasure.

Goal Lists:

• The 14er Project (climb all 58 peaks in CO over 14,000′)
• ‘All’ Boulder Flatirons (all rocks with a 2+ pitch climb)
• ‘Summit Cum Laude’ (100 Flatiron climbs plus Roach Classics)
• Colorado Highest 100 (14ers plus 55 of the highest in CO)
• All RMNP Named Peaks (Literally all of them seems unlikely)
• Traverses and Linkups (the best ridge traverses & peak linkups )
• Neptune’s List (the favorite climbs of Neptune Mtneering <5.10)
• Mountain Project ‘Favs’ (the ‘wisdom of the [MP] crowds’)

Once Long-standing Now Completed Goals:

• The Diamond, Longs Peak, RMNP: 7-1-1994
• Exum Ridge, Grand Teton: 7-20-1997
• Devil’s Thumb, Flatirons: 7-23-1997
• Northcutt-Carter, Hallett Peak:  9-6-1997
• South Ridge, Notchtop:  10-4-1997
• Culp-Bossier, Hallett Peak:  9-13-1997
• Kor’s Route, The Sabre, RMNP:  7-11-1998
• Casual Route (no guide), The Diamond: 8-8-1998
• Flying Buttress, Meeker:  9-19-1998
• Longs – Meeker traverse:  9-26-1998
• Stettner’s Ledges, Longs Peak:  7-17-1999
• Ship’s Prow, RMNP:  8-7-1999
• Winter Longs Ascent: 2-20-2000
• McHenry Peak, RMNP:  6-2-2002
• Chief’s Head, RMNP:  6-30-2002
• Mt. Alice, RMNP: 6-30-2002
• Ship’s Prow/Glacier Ridge Traverse, RMNP: 7-2007
• All 14ers in Colorado: 8-18-2007
• Solitude Loop (Arrow.-McHenry-Powell-Thatch.): 7-10-2010
• Blitzen Ridge of Ypsilon, RMNP: 9-4-2010