Tag: Jared Campbell

Summer 2014 Mountain Madness Summer has wound down, and it was a hot one for FKT action in the mountains. Some people REALLY like climbing mountains ... LOTS of mountains! Let’s take a look ... [caption id="attachment_1721" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Andrew Hamilton on Capital Peak - photo Stefan Griebel[/caption] COLORADO 14ers Depending how you count, there are between 53 and 58 peaks in Colorado over 14,000…

March 14, 6 AM, Canyon Overlook Trailhead Jared Campbell and I are in Zion National Park. It's a cool starry morning, and we immediately are enjoying scrambling up the white and red sandstone in the total darkness, our headlamps illuminating tiny circles in the smooth rock. Hey wait, it isn't supposed to be dark ... we timed our 6 AM departure based on when "Civil…

 May 25-26, Zion National Park, Jared Campbell, Ryan McDermott, Buzz Burrell Jared conceived of Zironman two years ago while studying Google Earth during one of his typical four-hours-of-sleep nights; it was an ingenious route, going from the west boundary of Zion National Park to past the east boundary via the most "interesting" terrain. "Zironman" was a fun way of saying the route involved climbing, running,…