WEBVTT - Been There, Dean That: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:06.080 Hello everybody, and welcome to episode four of The Dean Lounge. 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.039 I call the Dean Lounge only to not confuse people, 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.879 because we are changing the name of this segment starting 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.880 right now. I put on my Instagram what we could 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.040 name this because I am not creative enough to come 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.959 up with anything. And there were some very good submissions. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.119 The one that I enjoyed the most was been There 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:26.599 Dean That, So that's what we're gonna call this. So 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.760 I'm gonna start this all over. Hello everybody, and welcome 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:36.440 to episode four of Been There Dean That. Today's episode 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:40.839 is a very special episode because it's today's episode. I 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:42.800 it did lie to you guys a little bit last week. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:44.599 I did say I wanted to go through these episodes 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.599 chronologically or I'm sorry my trips chronologically, and I am 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:50.440 getting off of that path right now. But I saw 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.520 an opportunity and I had no choice but to seize 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.520 it because I have a friend staying at the house 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.600 with us. Not only is she staying here now, but 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.760 she stayed here for the whole week and got to 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.840 ski and hang out with our dog. Gosh, what a 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.039 great week that must have been having this house all 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.600 to yourself. But if you follow me on Instagram, which 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.520 I hope you do, you will know that I climbed 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.760 all of the fourteen ers in Colorado last summer, with 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.280 the exception of three because I'd already climbed them. It 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.080 was a big accomplishment for me. It was an incredible summer, 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.520 best summer of my life, and I'm excited to talk 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.040 to you about it. I might talk about it again 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:28.160 later at some point. But my friend here, can we 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.880 call you by your real name? Sure? Do you want 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:31.720 to introduce yourself? 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:32.679 Hi? 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.520 Am Hannah, Hi Hannah, Hi. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.720 My friend here. We probably did what like twelve of 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.560 the mountains together, sixteen, you know, off the top of 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:45.960 your head, sixteen, which is fifteen more than any other 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:49.000 person that I climbed the mountains with. Probably well Austin 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.120 I did three with, but it's significantly more than anyone 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.520 else I climbed any other mountains with. So since you're here, 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.200 I figured, why not just talk to you and see 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:58.080 what's going on? 0:01:58.880 --> 0:01:59.560 Sounds good? 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.080 It's so tricky because this is it's with this It's like, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.600 what do you What do I talk about? Because I mean, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.400 I don't know. It's easy to tell a story in 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.119 a conversational aspect. But it's hard to be like, well, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.880 this is in this and that and that and this happened, 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.320 you know what I mean, Especially when you're holding a microphone. 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:20.120 It's intimidated. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.919 You've done interviews before, though, I sure have. So Hannah 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.320 here for the uninitiated. She's a great marathon runner. She's 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.240 been She's completed the what is it called the World 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.960 World Majors, World Majors, And that's six marathons. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.320 In six well in different countries and. 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.520 Different because there's the New York, the New. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:44.640 York, Boston, Tokyo, London, Chicago, and I'm blanking on the last. 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:49.119 One Australia, Oh, Los Angeles. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:51.480 What is the last one? 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.480 It doesn't matter. You did all six anyways, And that's 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.800 great because I would never I would never run more 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.720 than a mile. Even running a mile, I would just 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:01.760 run out to the ice cream truck, run by that, 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.400 driving by the house. That's about as far as I get. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.480 So for me to even be standing on equal ground 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.800 with you in some other aspect of a physical accomplishment 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.359 is it's you know, I'm proud of myself for that, 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:14.240 I guess is all I have to say, but a 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.720 true testament to your ability as an athlete. So I 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.000 met Hannah. She reached out to me on Instagram because 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.200 I posted that I wanted to climb all fifty eight 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.120 and I had done zero research. I had no idea 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.959 what I was doing. I listed the mountains I wanted 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:29.760 to climb by dates, and Hannah reached out and she 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.160 was like, you're an absolute idiot, And I was like, 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.720 what do you mean. She goes that you did, but 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.520 at first you were a little at that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.200 Now that I know your personality, it was nice, but 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.040 like you know, I was a little like, whoa this girl? 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.120 To set me straight? Because there's a lot that you 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.640 can do in the same day. There's a lot that 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.280 you want to like link in the same loop or 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.360 whatever it is, and I didn't know any of that stuff. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.400 And so Hannah reached out and she, like very graciously, 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.120 was just offering up information, which is all I really 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.600 wanted at that point too. And little did I know 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.040 that she you were probably at what like thirty or 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.280 something at the beginning of last day was at four. 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.400 I was at thirty two, thirty two, And so not 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.240 only were you able to draw that experience and kind 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.000 of help me plan my stuff. But you had obviously 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:16.800 I had fifty five more to go, and so of 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.560 those fifty five, you had twenty five to do. When 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.159 we didn't do all of those, but you did for 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.839 your much to your credit. Like let's say you'd already 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:25.719 climbed one of them or hiked one of them. I 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:27.599 hadn't done it. You're like, yeah, I got nothing going on. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.200 I'll just come out and do that here for the day, 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:30.160 which is great. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.240 Right, And yeah, I wanted to do some repeats. I mean, 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.239 I had a good time and it's good to stand shape. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.560 Yeah. I think the very first one we did was 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.680 like it was like the fourth or fifth one I did. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:43.240 It was Toys and Grays off of I seventy there 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.960 and it was like early or late spring, so early yeah, 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:47.240 late spring, so there was still a little bit of 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.360 snow on the ground and we were like, screw it, 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.880 let's just ski. It was great ski yep. Man, where 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.440 are we going to go with this? I think it's 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.240 going to be interesting because a lot of people, I 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.599 don't want to say they like count girls out when 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.920 it comes to like the outdoor space. But I do 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:07.279 think that there is like a perceived like harder barrier 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:07.760 to entry. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.600 Yeah, I would agree. I feel like this is a 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.600 very it's a male dominated space. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.920 Yeah yeah, And so how did you get into it? 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.320 So? I got into it with a friend friend from college, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.159 lived in Colorado, and was like, actually, we're sitting at 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.120 a bar having some drinks and he's like, hey, do 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:24.560 you want to hike a fourteen to tomorrow? 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.000 And I was like sure, went home googled what is 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:28.560 a fourteen er? 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.880 Yeah, because I had no idea, and I saw it's 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.240 a five mile hike, so much elevation gain. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.160 I was Familinois. I have no idea what I'm doing, 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:37.840 but I showed up. 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.160 We started at two pm on a snowy November day, 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.400 and yeah, I had no idea. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:44.920 What I was getting myself into. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:45.760 And which one was that? 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.200 That was quandary. Actually, after that one, I promised myself 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.120 I'd never do that ever again. I never wanted to 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.240 do anymore. Yeah, that was one and done for me, 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.440 and that obviously changed, obviously changed. Yeah, my first one 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.400 actually so quandary. I showed up in cotton leggings, which 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.080 is a big no no, and cyrel snow boots with 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:02.560 the fur. 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.200 I remember that story. Yeah, yeah, I was looking good. Fortunately, 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.800 the quandary is considered one of the easier ones. It is, yeah, 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.240 but still not easy if you're unsure of what you're 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.120 getting self into and you're wearing Currel's in November. Yeah, 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.840 and in November, and didn't you say it snowed there 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:17.200 or something? 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:17.640 Oh? 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:18.920 It was it was super snowy. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:19.200 Yeah. 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.159 We were postholing down tour thighs. 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.000 It was yeah, okay, so you climb that with your 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.680 friend and then did you take time off or did 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:26.680 you just have the right away? 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:27.160 Oh? 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:28.320 No, I didn't want to do anymore. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.640 Ever, Again, I had a friend reach out a couple 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.120 months later and wanted to do the calibron, so the 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.680 four that it's together, and so just to appease her, 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.520 I was like, sure, I'll do those two with you. 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.480 And then at that point I'd done five, so I 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.360 was like, what's another However many more fifty of the math? 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.880 Yeah? Yeah, yeah, what's another fifty three? You're already six 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.240 percent of the way down with the challenge. Yeah. So 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:51.560 the calibran is one of those things that I was 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.960 talking about earlier, where it's four peaks within it's probably 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:57.400 what like a nine mile hike that day or something 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.040 like that, and it just it would be stupid to 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:01.560 go up there and just do one of them and 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.240 then go down. You might as well just do all 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:04.680 four in the same day and then boom, you're done 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.800 with the four. So yeah, so I remember, well I 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:08.479 did the Calibron and that was right after we did 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.520 Toys and Grace together, and then you reach back out 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:15.480 and you're like, yeah, we're gonna go do Carson and Challenging. Sure, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.000 which that was the first real taste that I had 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.800 of like big overnight backpacking for the summer at least, 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:23.400 because we hiked up I think it was like a 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.720 five four or five mile hike to base camp at 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.560 the Beautiful Lakes, and then we woke up early in 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.840 air quotations because it's never really early when when I'm going, 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.840 And then we climbed those two and I remember because 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.440 it was still at the point in the season where 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.360 there was so much snow And do you remember like 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:39.880 having to go through the snow on the way up 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:40.520 the Challenger. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:40.920 Oh? 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:42.480 Yeah, well you and I took a different route on 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.080 my friend Tyler kind of went up the snowy route 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:46.880 and we just kept looking at him like what an idiot? 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.800 Yeah, and then didn't end up beating us the time. Yeah, 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.040 well that's just a testaments how strong he is, I guess. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.040 And then the traverse on the way up to kick Carson, 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:00.760 it was like, you guys were more micro spikes, definitely 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.880 like what you needed to do. There was like ice 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.560 down this big cliff side with like a tiny narrow ledge. 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.200 It was very sketchy. I remember it. 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:10.480 Yeah, you didn't wear micro spikes. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.160 I was too stubborn too, and I think I only 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.480 had yak tracks too, so I was like these probably 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.560 wouldn't even help me out if I needed them. Yeah. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.240 And then yeah, the way down that I remember, we 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:19.440 were like this hitting all the way down. That was 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.080 pretty awesome at that point too. In my experience or 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.560 my journey, for lack of a better word, I was like, man, 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.520 I have to do this fifty more times. It's hard 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:29.880 when you first start out, you. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.600 Know, Yeah, especially when you use the tougher ones. You're 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.360 just like I have to do this again, Like this 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:34.760 was really hard and I'm exhausted. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.440 But in hindsight, do you think Carson and Challenger were 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.160 the tougher one of the tougher ones, like top fifty percent. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.200 Yeah, I would say top fifty percent for sure. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.079 Yeah. Yeah, those ones were fun though, I do I 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.160 and it just like because it started off kind of 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.480 early with one of those ones. I do really enjoy 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.800 like the overnight trips a lot more. Yeah, yeah, because 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:59.840 you finished on Windom and Sunlight and yeah, Chicago Basin 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:02.360 just to summarize that, which is great, and we'll get 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:03.800 to that, I guess later, because I want to hear 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.640 more about your finishing experience with it all. But so, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.760 how long did it take you to do fifty eight? 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:10.079 Pretty quick? 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.360 Still, I started in twenty sixteen, yeah, and twenty twenty three, 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.960 so seven you're good at math Son years. 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:22.000 Seven years? And what this last summer was the most 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:23.240 active you were with it? Yeah? 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.720 So I did thirty five this summer, thirty. 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.480 Five, right, I remember that one of the ones we 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.480 were hiking near the end. For me, you were like, well, 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.360 I've already done twenty three, I might as well just 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.240 do thirty And I'm like, who are you doing this for? 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.920 Like what is the what is itself? Actually? 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.600 Which is funny, this podcast it myself looks really cool. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.200 And it's mission accomplished. So you climbed all fifty eight, 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.600 but how many do you think you've climbed? Like repeats included? 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.560 Probably, Oh yeah, I would say probably like sixty or seventy. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.120 No more than that, I'd say like eighty okay, maybe eighty, 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.280 let's call it eighty okay. And then the third you 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.719 haven't done many thirteen years or now I have done 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.040 like two okay? Is that it ever going to be 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:03.679 a list for you to knock you out? 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:05.000 Yeah? 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.079 But a fourteen er is a mountain peak that stands 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.079 over fourteen thousand feet. And correct me if I'm wrong 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.880 on any of this stuff. There is According to Google, 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.000 there's ninety eight in the U in the Northern America, 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.760 and fifty eight of those sit in Colorado, surprisingly enough, 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.199 in the Colorado Rocky. So there's like fourteen in California, 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:28.520 twenty five in Alaska, one in Washington. I think that's 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.800 it right for the most part. Sure, Maybe no, not Hawaii. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.559 Maybe I have no idea, no ideas, And so it's 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.720 really cool, especially like living in Colorado. You know, you 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.440 have all of these huge mountains in your backyard, and 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:42.520 a lot of people do make it their goal to 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:43.920 climb them. A lot of people make it a goal 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:45.760 just to climb one, just to climb three, five, ten. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.120 It doesn't really matter what it is. But the thing 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.319 is they're not easy. And coming from Illinois, how did 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.760 you adjust to the I guess the elevation, Like, did 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.240 you struggle with the altitude sickness at all? 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:54.280 On? 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.280 Oh yeah, not on a fourteen, but just in general, 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.840 just like in the mountains, I've definitely had a lot 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:00.760 of elevation sickness. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.760 I remember you ever having it when we did it. 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.000 No, the only time I've really kind of felt it 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.680 was when my friend and I did handies and we 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.120 slept on the top and the first few hours trying 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.840 to breathe and sleep. Yeah, like I was waking up 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:15.920 like every like two seconds because I would like try 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:17.600 and fall asleep and then wake right back up because 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.360 I couldn't breathe. So that was like the only time. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.840 But it wasn't elevation sickness. It was just like couldn't breathe. 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:23.959 Well, was it cold? It was your sleeping bag over 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:24.640 your face or something? 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.080 Oh yeah, I was cooking. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:38.560 Oh yeah. 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.679 When I met you and then you introduced me to Tyler, 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.560 and you introduced me to Carly. Like your group, it 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.280 seemed like it was pretty fifty to fifty split men 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.880 and women, maybe even more, maybe even more favorable towards women. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.760 Right, Yeah, So Carly and I had met on a 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.520 hike prior, and I was with my friend Tyler. So 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.280 the two of us were hiking and we met with 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.920 Carly and we all realized we had the same pretty 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.679 similar peaks to finish. So we all made a pack. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.920 This this is twenty twenty two, made a pack to 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:02.760 finish them all together. So that was our goal for 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.200 twenty three. That they had like half of what I 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.000 had left, So a lot of those I was gonna 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:08.760 have to do by myself. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.359 Yeah, and how many? But you did zero by yourself. 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.480 Right, I've never done a fourteen and by myself, which 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:14.160 that is correct. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.040 That is quite the feat in itself. I like, I 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.160 kind of wish I had more friends to hang out 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.040 with going with me. There were times and you'll you'll 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.280 you obviously know this, maybe not firsthand, but just through 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.120 my stories. Is like when I'm hiking by myself, I'll 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:28.599 just like literally sit down on a rock for like 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.560 an hour doing crosswords and like take a nap and 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.800 then I'm like, oh my gosh, it's getting late. I 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.720 gotta finish this. And then I'm like finishing in the dark. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:37.840 But what's nice is when you're hiking with friends is 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:39.840 like they keep you, they hold you accountable, Like, dude, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.920 you can't just stop, man, Like we gotta go. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:43.640 There was a couple of what you did stop on 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.080 a rock and I was like, are we ever gonna 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:45.440 move again? 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.720 Yeah, my legs are getting tired. I would like to 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.200 keep moving, And You're like, well, hold on, I got 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.160 two more crosswords to do, right, Yeah. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.600 When we did Yale, I do remember like walking and 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.120 doing crosswords and well, I don't know why I do that. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:57.559 I do just get kind of I don't want to 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.560 say bored, because like that sounds really shallow capit of 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.760 me to say. But when you do all of those, 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.640 it's like they start to look the same, right, and 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:08.800 you just kind of want to get them over with. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:10.360 Like there are so many peaks that I did where 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.120 I was just like I just am doing this just 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.800 to get it done, like I'm not really enjoying myself. 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.600 Yeahha here, And that's why, like the more challenging ones 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.839 like obviously you're not going to sit and do a 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.640 crossword puzzle on capital. Yeah, so they're just a lot 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.280 more fun and there's things to you're really focusing on 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.520 what you're doing versus just like looking at nature, which 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:28.640 is obviously really cool and. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.360 That's a really important thing to know it too for 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.440 anyone that's listening to this wondering more about it is 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.800 there's of the fifty eight, like thirty five of them 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.920 are basically hikes, and you could do it with any 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.600 type of fitness level as long as you're like capable 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.000 to handle the elevation. It's just it would just take 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.000 you longer. I kind of mentioned this last week on 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:48.679 last week's episode. You could you could do it at 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.199 any fitness level, just like just slow down and take 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.240 your time. But then there are certain ones where like 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.120 it gets a little more challenging, you have to use 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.839 your hands and climb sometimes, or there's a lot of 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:00.680 those traverses that we did where it's like you could 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.600 fall to the right two feet and your debt and 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.839 obviously no one wants that to happen, but majority of 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.760 them are pretty pretty straightforward. I still think to this day, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:11.760 my favorite day in the mountains was when we did 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.120 the Little Bear Blanco Traverse. 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:14.960 Yes, hands down, that was awesome. 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.400 We so similar to what we were talking about with 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.280 Carson and Challenger. You hike up, well, Hannah drove us 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.880 up pretty dangful. So we only had a hike like 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.880 two miles up, but typically you would hike like six 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.800 miles I think something like that into this beautiful basin 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:30.840 and then you like set up camp there and then 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.280 you wake up the next morning. And I never wake 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.040 up early. I am the absolute early worst early riser. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.080 I was the first one out of the tent that 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:38.800 morning you were. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.640 I was so shocked. Carly and I were sharing a 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.040 tent and I was like, we can land, we can 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.360 sleep in a little bit longer, Deane. It's going to 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.960 take another like probably forty five minutes, and then you 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.080 woke up and you're like, I'm ready to go. I 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.840 looked at Carly, I was like, this is not normal. 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:52.800 Yeah, And that was my first time, meaning Carl two, 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.640 she's everyone that we were doing those web I felt 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.280 like I was the least physically capable person there. I 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.760 don't know if that's true, think it's I think the 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.080 only thing I had to stay humble. No, I swear 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:05.720 to God. The only thing that I had it like 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:07.560 maybe that I could have been better at you guys, 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.960 was I was just like I didn't I wouldn't say, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.320 you guys are scared of heights, but I just like 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.280 that stuff doesn't bother me. So like when it gets 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:14.640 like kind of sketchy like that, I'll just be like, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.880 oh whatever, this is fine. But like the hiking and 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:18.760 the climbing and like all of the endurance stuff, like 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.080 I'm getting my ass kicked all the time, so I 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:20.440 have to make. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:21.920 It until we go down and then you and Carly 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:23.560 just left Tyler and I am the dust. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:23.960 Yeah. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:25.480 I think that was just a matter of like I 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.480 just want to get to at this point. But no, 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.720 that hike was amazing. So you we hiked up at 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.080 sunrise before, so I guess we got to the first 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.920 speak around sunrise. And this is touted as maybe the 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.440 most dangerous of the of the whole escapades minus like 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.840 the Bells Traverse or Capital Yeah, or Longs if you 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:46.720 want to get technical, because most people die on lungs. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.200 But that's just because most people go do lungs underprepared, 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:53.960 and it I posted videos on my Instagram and you 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.000 posted a lot of amazing pictures too. It's like you're 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.760 literally just walking a tight rope for a mile and 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:00.840 there are two thousand four dropped to your left, two 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:04.440 thousand foot dropped to your right. The stakes are so high, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.800 and that's what makes it so fun and what's great too, 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.640 Like I would have hated doing that alone, yeah, because 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:11.960 it what made it so enjoyable for me was like, 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.080 you know, one of us are going into doing issue. 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.560 I would be scared to do something, and then Tyler 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.560 or you or Carly would step around and be like, oh, 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.040 it's so easy. You just put your hand here and 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.320 you just pull up onto this, and then you're like, oh, okay, 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:23.200