Brad McQueen 500 14er Summits

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Re: Brad McQueen 500 14er Summits

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Brad! You're a machine! Congrats on a pretty average milestone. :lol: :wink:
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Re: Brad McQueen 500 14er Summits

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Congrats Brad, you are a true class act, always climbing with style!
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Re: Brad McQueen 500 14er Summits

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Dang! Quite an achievement! Huge congrats! =D> =D> =D>
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Re: Brad McQueen 500 14er Summits

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Congratulations for hitting this milestone Brad! Your motivation, sound decision making. fitness, and willingness to suffer show you are well beyond average! Your choice in wife wasn't bad either, keep up with the great support Mel!

And don't think your tribute to Steve Gladbach went unnoticed as I saw that you did not update your checklist count past his 480 until just hitting this 500 milestone. You truly are a class act!
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Re: Brad McQueen 500 14er Summits

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BillMiddlebrook wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 3:25 pm
Stratosfearsome wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 1:41 pm Way to go, Brad. Half way there!
Well, he is at 900 (13ers+14ers) :)
Brad McQueen is a mountain climbing machine!
Nobody climbs 14ers anymore, they’re too crowded.
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Re: Brad McQueen 500 14er Summits

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Congrats! Incredible achievement, that's some serious dedication. 1000 summits isn't far! :mrgreen:
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Re: Brad McQueen 500 14er Summits

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DArcyS wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:52 am Yes, congrats, Brad.

A name that isn't mentioned too much anymore is Jim Gehres. In the late '80s early '90s, he was recognized as the person with the most 14er ascents, as he had climbed them all 12-13 times. I imagine part of that was a lack of information on other peaks to climb -- just stick to what is known. In 2000, I was preparing to leave the trailhead near Winfield to climb UN 13,253 when a gentleman asked me about my plans. I told him about my 13er for the day, and he introduced himself as Spencer Swanger, the first to climb all of the centennials. (He was leading a CMC group up Huron that day.) He talked about how things had changed a little even in 2000, as when he climbed the centennials, the routes were far from developed.
I had to look him up, and wow. Also a founder of CFI. If anyone else is interested, https://scienceline.org/2012/08/taking- ... nic-route/

And congrats Brad. Theres a few I don't want to repeat once, much less twice.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. -Nelson Mandela
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Nice !!! 👏
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Not all superheroes wear capes! Some wear beards!
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Wow! Good work, Brad!
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Re: Brad McQueen 500 14er Summits

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2toes wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:12 am 16 unsuccessful attempts
500 summits with only 16 unsuccessful attempts is quite impressive and a very good success ratio. Nicely done, Brad.
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Re: Brad McQueen 500 14er Summits

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bmcqueen wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:27 pm Thanks for the kind words. First, I do indeed have an awesome and very understanding wife! Thanks for all of your support over the years Mel.

I'm just a very average hiker who has been at this for a long time. I think of all of the amazing people on this forum and am humbled daily. Doing the Bells Traverse a few weeks ago, I thought a lot about my good friend and frequent partner, John Balciar, doing the Bells Traverse solo in winter to finish the seasonal grid (and now chasing only Ken Nolan for the full 14ers grid - I had a chance to meet Ken at the Climber's Gathering a couple years ago - amazing guy; John B. also took Jim Gehres out to breakfast in the last year to hear about all of his 12+ summits of each peak - bummed I was not able to join them that morning). I think about Justin Simoni traversing the Sangres self-supported. I think about Ryan and Danny overnighting on the first winter summit of Jagged "because they aren't totally nuts". I think about Preston's aversion to sleeping in a tent and thus day tripping all those amazingly far San Juan 13ers. I think of Ian and Dorthe who just quietly put up summit after summit after summit year in and year out, helping people along the way. Then there are the 13er finishers....that's a whole other level of passion and commitment. I think about Jane and how she is as badass on rock as she is tough in winter. I think about Zach coming back from being in a wheel chair after a close call with lightning; Noel coming back from a rockfall hit; Amy finishing the winter 14ers with amazing perseverance through injuries. Dad Mike finished out Steve's goal of doing the Cents in winter this past year - simply amazing. Yes, we have amazing people among our ranks - I'm sure I missed dozens of others who's feats I admire.

Yep, I'm a very average guy. The last half hour back to Purgatory last night hurt, just like it did a couple Septembers ago when I was chasing John Balciar out of there. Thanks to all of you true super humans out there for keeping an average guy like me motivated to keep getting outside and keep working on my skills.

Thanks to Bill M. for the awesome site and for the sense of community he has helped build over the years. Finally, thanks to the true heroes who volunteer with their local SAR groups to drop everything on a moment's notice when one of us gets in trouble.
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