Highest peaks you have summited

Good topic. Keep tweeting...Pikes Peak me boy.

El Alto airport, Bolivia. 4,061m, 13,323 feet.

Longs Peak in CO...an easy walkup, but 14259' (4346 meters)

letsrunreader wrote:

Longs Peak in CO...an easy walkup, but 14259' (4346 meters)

From reading this thread it appears I have not aimed high enough

On a route that I sometimes run there is 1 mile long uphill.

Sham 69 wrote:

On a route that I sometimes run there is 1 mile long uphill.

If you live at sea level and not near mountains and haven't taken trips anywhere, you will not ascend the heights of those who have such luxuries.

...not far from Edmonton

19341’ Mt Kilimanjaro

Mt Elbert 14,437feet , stay in a small town close by (Leadville, Colorado 10,152feet).

I think it's probably Mt. San Antonio (Mt. Baldy) around 10k feet.

However, when I was about 10, my mom and I tried to hike to Thumb Rock on Mt. Shasta, which is over 11,000 feet. We didn't make it, but that might have been about 10k feet also.

I need to get out more.

letsrunreader wrote:

Longs Peak in CO...an easy walkup, but 14259' (4346 meters)

I also did Longs (twice actually, 16 years apart). Yeah, it's a walkup in that you don't need any climbing gear, but I'd hardly call it "easy". 8 miles each way and 5000+ feet of vertical from the trailhead. The "trough" on the backside and the final pitch to the top are hand-and-foot scrambles, and hopping down the boulder field on the descent beats the heck out of your legs.

Kala Patthar, Everest Region.

It's not really a mountain more like a ridge in front of real mountains.

18,000ft

XXXX wrote:

Good topic. Keep tweeting...Pikes Peak me boy.

This.

Timmy Treadwell wrote:

El Alto airport, Bolivia. 4,061m, 13,323 feet.

That's not much of a mountain, is it?

But I landed there too.

Your mom

badboydan wrote:

Your mom

I had a good time with your mom, but, she was only $4.

Mt. Whitney, 14,496’ (I believe).It was 1968, after my junior year in high school. Went we a buddy, parents let us, and at the time uncomplicated. Approached from the south, up the back side of the mountain, down the front to the Portal.

Agree completely about Longs. Going up the home stretch is a decent challenge. Did the double 14er of Grays and Torreys a few years back. Probably should have trained a bit more as it darn near did me in at age 59. Sadly while trying to recover at the top of Torrey a cpl Colorado teens came flying on up in sandals and carrying their selfie stick. Living at altitude sure helps as does youth fitness.

I used to dayhike My Whitney to/from the Portal entrance every summer. I think we did it 8 consecutive years and about 10 total till my buddies one by one couldn't do it anymore. Man those were good times. One year me and my buddy started from the Portal with 60 pound packs went up to Whitney summit then came down to Guitar Lake for our first night doing the John Muir trail. That was a tough day. 4 week trip from Whitney Portal to Tuolemne Meadows in Yosemite. Once in a lifetime kinda trip for me.