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Of Mice and Mountaineers

Of Mice and Mountaineers

By: Geo
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 Of Mice and Mountaineers is the audio collection of one particularly unathletic outdoor enthusiast’s tales of sometimes barely surviving said outdoors, mostly the Colorado Rocky Mountains and the 14,000-foot peaks crowning them.Geo
Episodes
  • Sayonara, San Juans, or, a Screed against Scrambling

    Sayonara, San Juans, or, a Screed against Scrambling
    Aug 19 2025

    What I originally planned to be my final fourteener wound up being something of a nothingburger when it was merely my third to last, but it was a fine excuse to discuss my readiness to part ways with peaks that were more climbs than hikes in parts...and also be paradoxically pleased that the last two I had left would be such a pain.

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    47 mins
  • Bells for the Burned Out

    Bells for the Burned Out
    Aug 12 2025

    Just because I'd finally faced down my nemesis peak, the one I'd fallen off in 2021, and come away with a new summit did not mean I was immune to finding a peak - one right across the valley - that would give it a run for its money in loathsomeness.


    Written version: https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.php?trip=22194
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    55 mins
  • Settling Old Accounts in the New Year

    Settling Old Accounts in the New Year
    Aug 5 2025

    2022 was apparently the Year of the Revenge Peaks for me, and the Eoluses (Eolii?), the other half of the Chicago Basin quartet that I had failed to summit on my first trip into the basin earlier that year, were a doubleheader on which I was eager to score...and would have an opportunity to do so at the dawn of the Jewish new year.


    Written version: https://www.14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.php?trip=21986
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    38 mins
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