Have an interesting or epic climbing story? Post it here.
Forum rules
This is a mountaineering forum, so please keep your posts on-topic. Posts do not all have to be related to the 14ers but should at least be mountaineering-related.
Personal attacks and confrontational behavior will result in removal from the forum at the discretion of the administrators.
Do not use this forum to advertise, sell photos or other products or promote a commercial website.
Posts will be removed at the discretion of the site administrator or moderator(s), including: Troll posts, posts pushing political views or religious beliefs, and posts with the purpose of instigating conflict within the forum.
For more details, please see the Terms of Use you agreed to when joining the forum.
After reading about him for years, I feel very lucky to have met Horton part way up the mountain on 4/1/2011. He said hello to everyone in our group. Condolences to his family.
Pete
What a great story. He joined my group for my first 14er ski descent top-to-bottom in Feb 2005. I remember him biting my skis off the top. RIP Horton. +1 for the plaque
That breaks my heart to read this! I also feel lucky to have met him on a Quandary climb, and it makes me happy to know he squeezed in one more hike before he passed on.
I climbed Quandary many times with Horton. What a good buddy...
Horton
DSC09527.jpg (189.5 KiB) Viewed 3741 times
"When I go out, I become more alive. I just love skiing. The gravitational pull. When you ski steep terrain... you can almost get a feeling of flying." -Doug Coombs
Sad news. I climbed Quandary with him back in the early days. His owners even left a note on my truck to let me know that Horton wasn't lost but was instead just joining his hiker friends for a quick trip.
colorado yooper wrote:Maybe name a beer after him a Breck Brewery?
I would consider breaking sobriety if they did! We'll miss ya Horton.
~Sam
Life's journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "HOLY s**t!!...WHAT A HELL OF A RIDE!!!!"
colorado yooper wrote:Maybe name a beer after him a Breck Brewery?
I would consider breaking sobriety if they did! We'll miss ya Horton.
~Sam
Anyone have connections to the brewery? Maybe a Horton's English (Labrador) Porter to mimic Avery Ellie's Brown. Also, any clue if he passed along his climbing bloodline? Maybe there'll be a Horton Jr. on the trail one of these days.