Anyone climbed Capitol Peak in Colorado

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today Andrew Hamilton, a 40-year-old Denver native, broke the world record for fastest consecutive ascent of all of Colorado’s 14ers in an insane 9 days, 21 hours and 51 minutes

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This was a few years ago so not sure if it’s still the record. Very impressive. He had a crew driving him close and he used a bike for descents down to a van. I think you have to make so many vertical feet to claim an ascent.

Capitol is way, way harder than Elbert. I wouldn’t try Capitol unless you feel very confident. Lots of 13 and 14ers that I’d try before jumping from Elbert to Capitol, unless you have a lot of other climbing experience. For reference, Capitol is the toughest 14er listed on 14ers.com

It’s class 4, so let’s not get crazy with the “climbing” lingo. Exposure and route finding make it difficult...if you’re on something hard to climb, you’ve definitely already fricked up your route finding. Hard to frick up a knife edge. Step on solid footholds, don’t step on anything not solid.

You should be doing these in approach shoes and not boots.

I’m not up for holding on with my fingertips anymore. Most of the peaks I’ve bagged were while hiking in the area and made the summit.

I do want to bag Granite in Montana but that’s just a rappel down for the most part. That’s about as steep as I’ll get anymore.

in 2017, 5 people died on Capitol in 6 weeks.

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3000 a year climb it. 9 deaths total. Not that bad. Long’s Peak is more deadly. But gets way more traffic.