Events - Longs Peak Climbing Expedition for Vets

Taking Military Veterans to New Heights

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We are very excited to announce that our climbing trip will be shifting from Mt. Shasta to the Mummy Range and Longs Peak in Colorado this 9/11. Due to some miscommunications with the great staff at U.S. Forest Service in Mt. Shasta, we did not get our approval to climb the mountain until a bit late in the game and had to make alternative arrangements.

The good news is, we’ve learned a lot about what we need to do to for these kinds of trips and made good friends out at Mt. Shasta!

Meanwhile, we’ve also brought together more partners to help us out – including FedEx-Denver, FTL Solar, Natural High Foods, and designer Eric Noll.

We’re still hoping that the National Park Service is willing to give us a permit to film with a very motivated and talented crew that our good friend and partner from Spoken Images, Michael Ramsey, has put together.

So what is it that we’re doing?

We’ll be challenging the veterans on our trip to two pretty intense physical feats. The Mummy Range is no joke!

This picture, from Force Factor: Rocky Mountain National Park member Caleb Bury shows a portion of the range.

Starting on Wednesday September 8, we’ll be heading up to 11,000 feet before a 1:00 am camp departure through the Mummy Range.

Stats:

19 miles, 7000′ vertical feet climbed, and 8 summits!

These summits include Mount Chapin (12,454′), Mount Chiquita (13,069′), Ypsilon Mountain (13,514′), Fairchild Mountain (13,502′), Hagues Peak (13,560′), Mummy Mountain (13,425′), Mount Tileston (11,254′), and Bighorn Mountain (11,463′).

After this big day, we’ll take a rest day on September 10 before another 1:00 am departure on September 11 to make a summit attempt of Longs Peak!

We are always looking for additional partners and financial contributions, so please pass on the information to any and all interested and hopefully the next pictures you see we’ll be from the tops of many mountains! (Please note: We are not accepting any additional climbers at this stage – stay in touch for next year’s climb though.)

For more info or to make a donation, visit www.vetexpeditions.com, or feel free to contact Stacy Bare at stacy@vetexpeditions.com or Nick Watson at nick@vetexpeditions.com.

See you in Colorado’s high country!

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