Ep. 999: The Colorado 14ers Thru-Hike - Revisited - Junaid Dawud
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Colorado 14ers thru-hike: Junaid and his buddy's epic continuous journey summiting all 58 Colorado 14ers – 1,300 miles, nearly 300,000 feet of elevation gain, Forest Service roads, class 5 traverses, Colorado and Continental Divide Trail sections, and cross-country travel.
Originally aired July 15, 2015
As if climbing a typical 14,000 ft mountain isn't enough of an accomplishment, Junaid and his buddy, successfully summited every one of the 58 Colorado 14ers in a single continuous hike. The journey was about 1,300 miles with a total elevation gain close to 300,000 feet. They hiked desolate Forest Service roads, class 5 traverses, many sections of the Colorado and Continental Divide Trail, as well as cross-country travel. It's an epic adventure to say the least!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:26.7 | Today's episode is a throwback to when Travis and Kurt was hosting. |
| 0:32.0 | And funny enough, this is kind of a rare one, Travis was hosting this episode. |
| 0:35.3 | And a really cool twist on the Colorado 14ers challenge, |
| 0:39.7 | which is all the mountains in Colorado over 14,000 feet, and there's like 58 of them. |
| 0:44.3 | And Junaid and his partner, adventure partner, that is, climbed them all. |
| 0:49.0 | And not only climbed them, but walked in between them, made it a through hike, which is |
| 0:53.3 | just a really unique twist on the 14ers challenge. |
| 0:57.2 | And yeah, so this is a throwback. This is one of the coolest adventures I had heard of at the time. |
| 1:03.3 | And I've actually tried to do something like this, but instead of walking between them, I tried to bike between them. |
| 1:07.7 | And I got like a third of the way through before my body just couldn't keep up. The weather was terrible. And I was probably a little bit of a weenie too. But I got through about 20 of them. Yeah, it was quite an experience. So to think about doing that and walking between them, you know, hundreds. That's, gosh, probably a thousand miles of walking by the time you're all done, plus all the elevation of climbing. |
| 1:29.0 | That's all on trail and off trail, all that. |
| 1:31.9 | So, yeah, really big, really cool adventure. |
| 1:35.4 | And also I did something unique yesterday. |
| 1:37.8 | If you haven't checked it out, I did almost a trip report |
| 1:40.5 | and kind of an explanation of this very small adventure in comparison to today's |
| 1:45.9 | episode of something I did a couple weeks ago. And holy cow, I think that was the most |
| 1:52.4 | downloads, which is our metric in podcasting for listens. The only way we can know how many |
| 1:57.8 | people listen is how many people download the podcast episode. |
| 2:02.0 | And that was the most by a long shot that we've ever had in a single day. |
| 2:07.7 | So I don't know what it was about that episode. |
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