Dhgold completes Chaffee County

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Dhgold completes Chaffee County

Postby Alyson Kirk » Sun Oct 12, 2014 7:09 pm

On October 1st Dave became the fourth person to complete Chaffee County! Way to go Dave, a large county with plenty of high peaks to tackle. How many did W accompany you on?
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Re: Dhgold completes Chaffee County

Postby John Paul » Mon Oct 13, 2014 7:31 am

Way to go dhgold! Man it's fun to watch you post all your peaks. You have a knack for creative combinations. Your trip report comments are also insightful. Congrats to W as well...jp
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Re: Dhgold completes Chaffee County

Postby lukePlumley » Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:17 am

Congratulations Dave. What a list in the heart of the state!
Plenty of high alpine peaks too!
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Re: Dhgold completes Chaffee County

Postby DavidDJohnson » Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:42 am

Congratulations! Would be interested to know your favorites.
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Re: Dhgold completes Chaffee County

Postby Steve Knapp » Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:23 am

Congrats Dave! Another great county list. It's amazing how few people you see up there outside of the 14ers.

Chaffee county has over 60 ranked 13ers. You sure have been hitting the CO 13er list hard, over 500 in the past five seasons with only 39 left I think? That's very impressive!
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Re: Dhgold completes Chaffee County

Postby Brian Kalet » Mon Oct 13, 2014 10:55 am

Nice work Dave; 9 counties down!
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Re: Dhgold completes Chaffee County

Postby John Kirk » Mon Oct 13, 2014 10:58 am

Congrats Dave! Looking forward to the 13er finish next year
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Re: Dhgold completes Chaffee County

Postby Tom Pierce » Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:15 am

Congrats Dave!
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Re: Dhgold completes Chaffee County

Postby dhgold » Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:27 am

Thanks, all.

Chaffee and Pitkin counties were where I was first exposed to the Colorado mountains and for that reason represent for the me the essence of the Colorado high country. So, 43 years after my first Chaffee (and 2nd CO) peak, Mt Princeton, it was quite satisfying to complete Chaffee's ranked peaks. (Though I'd like to, I don't know if I'll get around to finishing Pitkin, particularly since I already have a couple of inconvenient orphans.)

Summit of Mt Chapman, my penultimate Chaffee peak.
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Wilbur the dog has done about 150 Chaffee peaks with his main omissions being most of the 14ers and the Three Apostles.

As far as favorites, the remarkable similarity of Chaffee's peaks above timberline means that not much stands out. However, I still have strong memories of an epic failure on Harvard at summer camp in '72 -- the mountains were a lot bigger then. For pure enjoyability, 13374 was a very pleasant hike -- a lot of trail, no bushwhacking -- in nice weather that I was able to savor since I did it as a singleton and so wasn't in a rush to get on with the rest of the day's agenda.
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Re: Dhgold completes Chaffee County

Postby Ryan Kowalski » Wed Oct 15, 2014 3:22 pm

Awesome Dave!

Chaffee is a sweet place to spend some time. You are blazing through these lists!
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Re: Dhgold completes Chaffee County

Postby Jeremy Hakes » Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:44 pm

Congrats, Dave. Fine work!
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