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Davenport Finishes 14'er Quest

Submitted By: John McNamee on Jan 22, 2007


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Chris Davenport finished his quest to ski Colorado's fourteener's in one calendar year at the weekend. Read all about it in today's Denverpost


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By Jeff Barnow
From: Boulder Co
Jan 22, 2007

Or on his site www.skithe14ers.com

By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
Jan 22, 2007

Wow!! I just read Chris' account of skiing North Maroon and it is gripping. These guys are psycho!

First Aaron Ralston solos them all in winter, then Chris Davenport skis them all in one calendar year. What's next?

By John McNamee
Administrator
From: Littleton, CO
Jan 23, 2007

I remember a couple of years ago someone in the summer time climbed all the 14ers and used a push bike to travel between trailheads and completed it in 14 days. I thought that was pretty impressive too.

By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
Jan 23, 2007

I think you mean Andrew Hamilton, who did them all under his own power (hike or bike). But I think he took more than 14 days, didn't he? But under a month as I recall.

The only record I have a shot at is the longest time taken to climb all the 14ers. Since I climbed my first one in 1975, and I haven't finished, I'm currently at 32 years. However, I think the record is already over 50!

By John McNamee
Administrator
From: Littleton, CO
Jan 23, 2007

Yes, you might be right. Logistics must of been tough...

By Dave Bohn aka "Old Fart"
Jan 24, 2007

I first climbed Long's the Summer of '72. I've since summited it, 20-30 times and about 15-20 other 14'ers. I think I'm really close to being over 14,000' 53 times but the brain gets fuzzy at my age. :~)

By Chad Kline
From: Loveland, CO
Jan 24, 2007

I have great respect for individuals like Chris and Aaron. However I'm working on "The Most Times Up a Single 14er Without a Summit"; twice up Longs but the weather turned me back both times (once wind and once snow).

By Mike Carnes
Jan 24, 2007

Kudos for the quest, and I don't mean to rain on his parade but I have a friend who was skiing a 14er and ran into Chris, who in order to ski from the summit, decided to pass up a beautiful couloir that my friends skied to ski down a hiking trail just so he could get the true summit descent. I know he is a good skier and all, but I can't help but wonder now how many of his descents were true ski descents and how many were trail hikes on skis. I can only hope for his sake it is all of them but know for sure that one is not.

By Jeff Barnow
From: Boulder Co
Jan 25, 2007

I think he is making a video about the whole ordeal. When it comes out we will see.

By Theo Barker
From: Loveland, CO
Jan 25, 2007

George, I'm not far behind you. Started in '77 with Blanca & Ellingwood. Some of the peaks (other than Long's)I've done 2 times. Long's is about 5x. Not sure I'll ever do Little Bear after this summer's epic body recovery on it...

By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
Jan 26, 2007

Ski descents always seem to be controversial. If you don't ski from the summit, people complain you didn't ski the whole mountain. If you do ski from the top, people complain you didn't ski the best/classic/hardest/longest line! Chris and his buddies are super-motivated and I think that is great. He has made no attempt to hide his ski descents with all the filming and blogging.

Reading Chris' accounts of skiing North Maroon, Pyramid, Capitol and Little Bear is exciting stuff. The movies made from his helmet-cam are going to be worth checking out.

By Mike Carnes
Jan 31, 2007

I agree that will make great footage. Either way it is a great achievement and interesting point George, I guess we can all be critics and I respect what he did fully. I am curious what lines had to be passed up to get true summit skis. I'm sure some of them must have been hard to pass up

By Mike Carnes
Feb 1, 2007

I just checked out a new backcountry ski film that is worth watching. It covers Colorado, Utah, Alaska, BC, S. America and has some great films. I saw the add in backcountry mag and it is for sale on their web site. I was pretty impressed with it definitely worth watching

By Jim Jones
Feb 7, 2007

The original proposal was to do it in one season? From the website, 'During the 2006 winter/ spring ski season, professional freeskier Chris Davenport, of Aspen, Colorado, will attempt to climb and ski all 54 of Colorado's 14,000 foot peaks.'