 The Fish Hatchery. It's 325 a.m. on Saturday morning, September 2nd, 2017 with True Love, the crew. And I am heading north to south on Nolan's 14, a 100 mile mountain journey over 14 14ers. And, honey, I love you. I love you. Here we go. You're gonna do amazing. You're gonna crush it. Okay. Nothing to wait for. All right. So we're gonna grab that. Okay. I got the fish hatchery. Got it. Okay. All right. Godspeed, love. You're gonna do amazing. Okay. I'm gonna turn on my belt. Okay. Oh. Isn't that fun? You're forced to be reckoned with now. Here we go. Oh my gosh. I love you. All right. Bob Lang Cabin. You're an amazing man. Work hard. Love each other. One down. 13 to go. This is Mount Massive. Got up here in two hours and 23 minutes from the fish hatchery to the top of Mount Massive. This is because I dedicated this first mountain to my firstborn son, Joseph James, who just turned five. Love you, Joseph. You helped me get up this first one. All right. No time for lollygagging. Off to Elburn. Tallest Mountain in Colorado. All right. Here we go. Oh man. Feeling good. Feeling good. Feeling real good. That'll do big. Once again, two hours, 23 minutes to the top of Mount Massive. Peak number two, Mount Albert. Two down. 12 to go. Seth Sebastian, secondborn son. That one was for you, baby. Oh man. And I just ate some baby food. All that hell. I feel a lot better. I'm going to need to buy more. True love is going to need to buy more baby food. It was delicious. Legs feel good. They're tired, but they feel strong, if that makes any sense. So I'm headed to Bull Hill and then down to La Plata Trailhead to meet True Love and then up La Plata. So love you all. Here we go. And yeah, Albert, I just, you know, you kind of forget, I'll be honest, you kind of forget how spread, how far apart Albert and Massive are. They're kind of far apart. I'd say they're probably, they might be the furthest apart of any of these 14 mountains that I'm doing. And Massive is a massive mountain, so it's a lot, it's a big approach. And Mount Albert is the tallest, is the tallest mountain in all of Colorado. So anyway, I'm a little behind schedule, but I feel good. I don't feel like I'm crazy behind. And I think I can make it up in other sections coming up. So just got to stay positive. It's all about that optimism, stay positive, and good things will happen. All right, here we go. You want some Coke first? I'm gonna have water first. Water first. Do you want me to charge anything, lights? Here in a second. Yeah. I was nutrition hitting you. Baby food was amazing. You're so great. I want the, because I could go buy more. I think. Yeah, we have to buy more. Before wind field. Okay. Yeah. I might have to go to Leadville. Okay. Sorry. There was a little convenience store by Twin Lakes. I'll pop in just in case. If they have stuff, that's amazing. They had camel backs. I don't know, but I'll check. Yeah. Oh, and I have white cheddar popcorn, M&Ms, Milky Way, chocolate chip cookie. You can eat those. They're calling your name. Maybe in wind field. Yeah. This is aid station one. I feel much better now that I have food in me. We are at eight hours and 35 minutes. We need to get rolling again. Basically, I'm at, we're at the La Plata Trailhead. So now the next mountain is La Plata. And then I'll see true love at wind field. So I'm going to wrap it up and we'll see you on the top of La Plata. We're just doing it here. Just leaving the trailhead at La Plata, heading up La Plata. Here we go. Elbert, massive. Oh, baby. All right. So we are on the top of La Plata. I'm at 10 hours and 41 minutes. I felt Elbert was hard. I don't know. I really preferred north to south. I don't know about all of you out there, but I just like getting massive and Elbert out of the way. They're so big and they're kind of spread out. And I just can't imagine doing those two mountains at the end of Nolan's 14. So I'm on the top of La Plata, feeling good. Just got some baby food in me. And basically, whoever built the La Plata trail system, I got to put those back on. I love you. I could kiss you. The La Plata trail is amazing. And every 14er should aspire to be like La Plata. All right. Down to wind field to meet true love for some more food. And she just zipped up to Leadville and grabbed some food at Safeway in Leadville. And oh yeah. And lastly, that mountain was for Sarah. Sarah Hodak, my sister, my big sister. And yeah, she's a doctor. Yeah, I like to brag about that. She's a doctor. So you know, if anything goes wrong up here, I got back up. I got back up. Love you, Sarah. So that mountain was for you because I know you've done this one. So onward we go. Enough talking. One last thing I forgot to mention, three down, 11 to go. And this is when they start going fast because they're clumped together a lot better starting with Huron in Missouri and Oxford and Belford. And then you get into my mountains in BV. So that's why I also like going north to south is they start going faster after you get these three done. So 11 to go. I just got... I patched it. Perfect. We are at aid station numero dos. Wind field. Feeling good. I barely got here in time. La Plata was a solid mountain. But this is the stretch. Seven mountains before I see true love again through the night. So I probably, hopefully around dawn, we will reconnect with your God at the parking lot. So I feel great though. Oh yeah. I want to grab a pair of socks. Oh yeah. So anyway, we've got all our stuff here in the back of the car. And your pants are in here. After these aid stations, I feel good. Definitely breathing, but feeling good. I did not film on the top. Let me just get a little water. Hold on. Hold on. There we go. Much better. Basically, I did not film on top because there's a little bit of weather to the west. Maybe like five to 10 miles. Nothing crazy. So I didn't want to stay up there. So that was Huron. Well, my total time. Oh my gosh. I just hit 15 hours. So four down. Ten to go. That ain't bad. You know, it's probably about 6.15. I don't really want to look at the time. Maybe 6.30. So it's going to be getting dark in the next hour and a half. So I want to get as far down toward Missouri as possible. And maybe even start making my way up. It's not a crazy mountain. It's, you know, but you got to be smart on it. I can actually see the trail from here. So that makes me feel good. And then from here, we just start ticking them off, really ticking them off. So we got Missouri, Oxford, Belford, and then over to Harvard, Columbia, and Yale. And so I won't see true love until after Yale. But anyway, I'm feeling good. Oh yeah. In this peak here on, that was for Troy. Uncle Troy gave it up for you, baby. All that pain. Offering it up, sir. So thanks for, thanks for helping watch the boys this weekend. Stop and smell the roses. Oh, there's a fire over there. There's camping out here. It's kind of nice. Tip of the day. Tip of the day. What is it? Oh yeah. Make friends with the elk. If you can find some stellar elk trails, like I just did coming off here on, it'll make your day much, much happier. All right, up we go. I had to stop. I just had to stop. I had no idea. Oh, the moon was going to be so big. Look at that baby. Oh, praise him. Praise him. That's what I'm talking about. Sorry, it's so bright with the headlamp. That was a doozy. Missouri was a doozy. It just goes straight up. For anyone thinking about Nolan's down the road, it's just a steep mountain. Well, folks, that's all she wrote for Nolan's 14. I mean, I did not make it. Basically, I got lost pretty bad. I'm out in Missouri. In fact, I think I missed the summit. And then I went down the wrong ridge for like an hour to an hour and a half in the wrong direction. So I was on really, really good pace. But guess what? You can't win them all. It's pretty, pretty sad. That's a tough, that's a tough way to stop getting lost. But you live and learn as far as recon is concerned, even though I've done this section before, but you know, you know, it was nighttime and everything is different in nighttime. So, oh man, love you all. True love's about to pick me up here. I just came back north. And that was like one of the hardest things I've ever done. It was like two, three hours of downhill nastiness. Oh, all right. I'll talk more about this situation and everything in tomorrow's vlog. But thanks for tuning in. You know, it's not the end of the world. It's sad, of course, but I don't know. I wouldn't truly not recommend this to anybody. I really wouldn't. It is a beast. All right, let's just wait for true love.