2015 14er Speed Record Attempt
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 4:52 pm
Well, here we go again...I am heading out tomorrow to take another shot at the Colorado 14er record. I've almost cancelled the attempt several times this year. First I had a bunch of nagging injuries that messed with training. Then all the late season snow freaked me out. Now the early onset of Monsoons has me picturing the not-so-good old days of downpours and lightning bolts on the Wilson El Diente traverse.
Rather than just cancelling though I have decided to ignore all the good advice from family and friends to just wait a year, and just go ahead and get started and see how it all pans out. If the weather gets too gnarly though and causes some big delays I may just have to call it early, but I will give it my best shot!
In any case, I delayed my start as much as I could based on crew schedule, and am going to start on June 29th around 4:30am.
Just like last year, if you are interested in following along you can see my satellite tracker updates at: https://share.delorme.com/14ers
We also have a back up tracker so if something happens to the other one you can follow it at: https://share.delorme.com/NatalieHamilton
As usual I failed to polish up my website, but at the very least I did update the numbers to say "2015 record attempt" instead of "2014 record attempt"
The website is still at http://www.andrewhamilton.com/14ers, Andrea and Natalie will try to keep it updated as much as possible!
I look forward to seeing you out there!
Rather than just cancelling though I have decided to ignore all the good advice from family and friends to just wait a year, and just go ahead and get started and see how it all pans out. If the weather gets too gnarly though and causes some big delays I may just have to call it early, but I will give it my best shot!
In any case, I delayed my start as much as I could based on crew schedule, and am going to start on June 29th around 4:30am.
Just like last year, if you are interested in following along you can see my satellite tracker updates at: https://share.delorme.com/14ers
We also have a back up tracker so if something happens to the other one you can follow it at: https://share.delorme.com/NatalieHamilton
As usual I failed to polish up my website, but at the very least I did update the numbers to say "2015 record attempt" instead of "2014 record attempt"
The website is still at http://www.andrewhamilton.com/14ers, Andrea and Natalie will try to keep it updated as much as possible!
I look forward to seeing you out there!
Anyway I'd love to see you out there!