Unrealized

With Longs Peak being of close-enough proximity to Boulder to ride to by bike and back, the mountain has been a long-term focus of mine in the realm of Longs Peak duathlons.

Summiting Longs Peak every month of the year in succession by a different route is the Longs Peak Project. Adding an approach to the trailhead and back from Boulder, CO is the currently unrealized Self-Powered Longs Peak Project.

2023/2024 Progress

• March: Keplingers Couloir (Strava)
• April: Northwest Gully (Strava)
• May: Iron Gates (Strava)

All Self-Powered Longs Peak Trips*

• 2023
  • 3/18 – 3/20 – Keplinger’s (Strava) (#~49)
  • 4/30 – NW Gully (Strava)
  • 5/31 – Iron Gates (Strava)
• 2022
  • 1/30 – Keplinger’s (Strava)
• 2021
  • 1/31 – NW Gully (Strava)
  • 2/28 – Keyhole (Strava)
  • 9/25 – Skyscraper (Strava)
  • 10/12 – Northwest Gully (Strava)
  • 11/28 – East Chimney (Strava)
• 2020
  • 12/6 – Cables (Strava)
  • 11/29 – Loft (Strava) (Video)
  • 11/22 – Keyhole (Strava)
  • 7/2 – Keyhole (Strava) + 7/3 – Loft (Strava)
  • 3/7 – Cables (Strava)
  • 2/29 – Keyhole (Strava)
• 2019
  • 12/23 – Loft (Strava)
  • 11/19 – Keyhole (Strava)
  • 8/23 – Keyhole (Strava)
  • 6/12 – Cables (Strava)
  • 3/28 – Loft (Strava)
  • 2/2 – Cables (Strava)
  • 1/5/ – Keyhole (Strava)
• 2018
• 2017
  • 12/17 – Loft (Strava)
  • 12/10 – Cables (Strava)
  • 9/16 – Loft (Strava) – part of Tour of the Highest Hundred
  • 8/9 – Kieners (Strava)
  • 4/12 – Keplingers (Strava)
  • 3/11 – Keyhole (Strava)
• 2016
  • 11/9 – Trough Direct to SW Ridge (Strava) (Trip Report)
  • 10/30 – Radical Slam (Strava) (Youtube)
  • 9/17 – Keyhole (Strava)
  • 9/5 – NW Gully (Strava)
  • 8/27 – Keyhole Variation (Strava)
  • 6/17 – Radical Slam (Strava) (Trip Report)
  • 2/28 Loft (Strava) (Trip Report)
• 2015
  • 8/10 – Cables (Strava)
  • 8/1 – Iron Gates/Gorrels/Skyscraper (Strava) + 8/2 – Cables (Strava)
  • 7/26 – Kieners (Strava)
  • 7/22 – Keyhole (Strava)
  • 7/18 – Kieners (Strava)
  • 3/16 – Loft (Strava)
• 2014
  • 8/28 Keyhole (Strava) – part of Tour 14er
  • 7/18 N+ S Arapaho + 7/19 Radical Slam (Strava) + 7/20 Kieners (Strava)
  • 5/6 – Keyhole (Strava)
  • 5/2 – Keyhole (Strava)
  • 3/12 – Keyhole (Strava) First Winter Duathlon Writeup
• 2013
  • 5/23 – Loft (Strava) – Trip Report
• 2010
  • 10/ – Trip Report of an early failure

*as best as I can compile so apologies for any mistakes

Notable firsts, accomplishments and interesting facts

• Most Lifetime Longs Peak Duathlons: ~46
• First Known Winter Longs Peak Duathlon: 3/12/14
• Most Winter Longs Peak Duathlons: ~13
  • 3/12/14
  • 3/4/16
  • 3/11/17
  • 1/5/19
  • 2/2/19
  • 3/19
  • 12/19
  • 2/29/20
  • 3/8/20
  • 1/31/21
  • 2/28/21
  • 1/30 – Keplinger’s (Strava)
  • 3/18/23 – 3/20/23 – Keplinger’s (writeup) (Strava)
• Most Varied Routes used to Summit during a Longs Peak Duathlon:
  • Keplingers
  • Keyhole
  • Loft
  • Cables
  • Northwest Gully
  • Kieners
  • Trough Direct to Southwest Ridge
  • Skyscraper
  • East Chimney
  • etc.
• FKT Longs Peak Duathlon via Keyhole, strictly following the trail (no shortcuts below treeline):
  • 9h 20min 10sec 8/29/19
  • 9h 58m, 8/10/2015
• Most Longs Duathlon Radical Slams: 3;
  7/19/2014,
  10/30/16
  6/17/16
  • First/Only/Fastest Known Longs Peak Duathlon Radical Slam (Radical Slam summits Longs Peak as well as Estes Cone, Battle Mountain, Mt. Lady Washington, Storm Peak, Pagoda Mountain, and Mt. Meeker): 7/19/2014
• First to complete the Longs Peak Duathlon from each of the three main trailheads:
  • Wild Basin (4/12/2017),
  • East Longs TH (6/1/13),
  • Glacier Gorge (11/9/2016)
• Closest to finishing the Self Powered Longs Peak Project: (summit Longs Peak by a different route, for every month of the year, open project) in 2016:
  • August: Cables
  • September: Keyhole
  • October: Radical Slam
  • November: Trough Direct to Southwest Ridge
• First to tick a Duathlon in every month of the year (lifetime grid)
• Longest time to summit Longs Peak by bike, leaving and returning to the same location:
  • 34+ days, 2014
  • 60+ days; 2017