Ep. 054: Jeff Golden - Climbing Colorado 14ers!
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
There may be no better way to start in mountaineering than to climb Colorado's 14,000 foot tall peaks. Jeff Golden shares his tips, tricks, and experiences in today's show on Colorado 14ers! With enough will power and determination, most people can climb Colorado's high peaks. But there are a few things you need to know first. Jeff and the Colorado Mountain Club give you the know how. You provide the muscle! Come with us on this amazing journey to the tops!
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| 0:00.0 | It's something called Alpin Glow, where when the sun first starts hitting these peaks, they kind of just glow red. |
| 0:06.3 | And there's not much that's more beautiful than that. |
| 0:09.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:32.6 | Yeah. This is the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:36.8 | Brought to you by 180 Tack. Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:45.7 | Episode 54, Jeff Golden on climbing Colorado's 14,000 foot peaks. |
| 0:54.9 | Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:56.5 | This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:02.7 | Today, our adventure sport is climbing 14ers, and we have Jeff Golden with us. |
| 1:05.7 | Jeff grew up in North Carolina. |
| 1:12.8 | When he got out of college, he moved to New Mexico for his first job, and he heard about 14ers then, and that's when he started climbing 14ers only five years ago. Now he lives in Golden and works for the Colorado |
| 1:18.9 | Mountain Club, which is really awesome. Jeff has not only climbed all the 14ers, and we're going to |
| 1:24.5 | talk a little bit about how many of those there are. In Colorado, the number |
| 1:28.7 | ranges between 54 and 58, but he's not only climbed all of those, he has also climbed many of them |
| 1:36.0 | several times. So he has summoned about 130 times on 14ers, and he has also climbed 13ers, and he has somewhere in the ballpark of 300 summits |
| 1:47.6 | under his belt now in just five years so that's pretty aggressive so jeff welcome to the program |
| 1:53.6 | hey thanks for having me good to be here jeff take a few minutes to tell our listeners more about |
| 1:58.3 | yourself and your connection to climbing 14ers sure well. Well, I'm 29 years old. And like you said, I moved here from North Carolina right when I graduated college, I don't know, six, seven years ago. And I kind of lived here about a year in northern New Mexico and could see, you know, just the very tips of some of the southern San Juan Mountains, and they were always |
| 2:17.7 | kind of intriguing to me, but I didn't know anything about them. I, you know, lived in the city or |
| 2:22.8 | near the beach pretty much my whole life, and I knew almost nothing about mountain climbing. And I, you know, |
| 2:27.9 | just kind of got sort of interested into it. I read a couple of books from the famous American |
| 2:32.5 | mountaineer Ed Visters and just kind of worked myself up to it. |
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