Youngest person to finish the Centennials?

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Youngest person to finish the Centennials?

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I've heard of children as young as 7 and 8 finishing all the 14ers but what about the highest 100? Anyone know how old the youngest finisher is?
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Re: Youngest person to finish the Centennials?

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The Climbing Cooneys had two kids who climbed with them. I wonder if they finished and, if so, how old they were.
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Re: Youngest person to finish the Centennials?

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I contacted the Climbing Cooneys, and Tim Cooney said that neither of his kids finished the centennials.

I was 31 when I finished the centennials. Certainly there must be some climbers who were younger than that when they completed the centennials.
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Re: Youngest person to finish the Centennials?

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I was 30.
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Re: Youngest person to finish the Centennials?

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^^^ Some people finished all the 13ers before they were 30, so keep going down.

This "youngest to [fill in the blank]" always reminds me of that popular trend in the 90's to be the youngest pilot to fly across the country. I figured that would probably end when some child was too young to be flying and ended up dead in a crash. And that's what happened.
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Re: Youngest person to finish the Centennials?

Post by Monster5 »

DArcyS wrote:^^^ Some people finished all the 13ers before they were 30, so keep going down.
Ol' Furthermore was 28 when he finally got around to Culebra. Perhaps young people tend to get bored of peak lists after the 14ers and focus on more technical ventures. Still, I'd guess some bored college student finished the Cents by 22.
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I'm more interested in knowing how many people have completed the centennial 13ers. Any estimates?

Also, I wonder how many have done the 14ers int he winter.
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mikefromcraig wrote:Also, I wonder how many have done the 14ers int he winter.
This is documented, and I believe the number currently stands at 9.
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SchralpTheGnar wrote:I was 30.
I was 4-1/2.

And I did them unsupported.

In my underoos.

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mikefromcraig wrote:I'm more interested in knowing how many people have completed the centennial 13ers. Any estimates?
The last CMC list has 235 finishers. I'm sure there's another 100 out there or more that never said anything to the CMC.

LoJ has maybe ~15-20 people with only a few more to go.
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Tornadoman wrote:
mikefromcraig wrote:Also, I wonder how many have done the 14ers int he winter.
This is documented, and I believe the number currently stands at 9.
No way! I would have guessed way more than that.

Do you know how to qualify for the official list? I'm nowhere near but if the number is so low that really increases my motivation!
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Re: Youngest person to finish the Centennials?

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mikefromcraig wrote: Do you know how to qualify for the official list?
What kind of question is that? If you want to be on the list of people that have hiked all of the 14ers in winter, you have to hike all of the 14ers in winter.
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