 Hello, YouTube. Hello. Welcome to the vlog. Okay. Here we go. It is Friday, September 1st, 2017. Tomorrow morning, very early, and adventure is about to start. But before I dive into that, I'm gonna talk. I've never done a vlog of VLOG like this right now. I only have five minutes to film and about 10 minutes to edit, and then I've got to upload because I gotta hit the road with true love up to Leadville, Colorado. So gotta keep this as concise as possible and bear with me. I've never done a vlog like this. And by the way, if you're new to the channel, if you arrived here because of the title of this video, this story, welcome. And I make a daily video, a daily story. So I invite you, of course, to subscribe below if you'd like more videos every single day. And yes, I do quite a few videos, stories, filming up in the mountains, running in particular. So let's dive in. Nolan's 14. No, I've been given hints to all you regulars out there for probably a couple weeks now as to this, what is about to happen tomorrow morning. Basically in Colorado, there are 58 14ers, some say 54, I say 58 14ers. That means a 14er is a mountain that rises above 14,000 feet above sea level. That's pretty high. That's pretty high. Everest is like 29,000, I think. So it's about half of Everest. Well, in the high country, about two and a half hours west of here of Denver, where I'm at right now, is a mountain range called the Swatch Range. And within that mountain range, there are 14 mountains that are lined up one after another 14 14ers, hence the name Nolan's 14. And these mountains all rise above 14,000 feet above sea level. Basically in the late 90s. So okay, I also have to mention, I'm a BV kid, I grew up in Buna Vista, beauty, puny, beauty. That's my hometown, baby. Go demons. That was our mascot in high school. So we grew up looking at these mountains out our front door, everything from, well, we couldn't see massive, but it's basically Mount Massive all the way down to Chavano. There's 14 mountains, and in the late 90s, a group of gentlemen started trying to attempt to run or slash hike these 14 mountains in under 60 hours. That is the challenge. And by the way, for all of this information I'm telling you right now, go Google it. Just type in Nolan's 14 and a website will show up. It's an old, archaic website, but there's information there. And within that website, it will tell you that this adventure, this alpine run is over 100, well around 100 miles. It depends on the route you take. It's about 50% on trail, 50% off trail. Once again, depending on the route you choose, you can go any route you want. You have to finish in under 60 hours. There's about 90,000 feet of vertical, 90,000 feet of vertical, so up and down, 90,000 feet. What else? It starts, so I'm going to go north to south, so from Leadville to basically, you know, near Salida. But you can go either direction, south to north, north to south. Every year, it's like a, I believe it's about a 15% finishing rate, meaning about 15% of the people that attempt it, which I would guess is maybe 10 people a year. Maybe, I don't know, it's just a guess. About 15% completed in under 60 hours. So it's a huge challenge. And one last thing, shout out to, well two last things. First of all, a gentleman about a month ago from Spain, I'm not going to say his name right, Iker, Ecare, Ecare, Iker. I'm just going to say Iker, Americanize it. He set the record as far as time in 47 hours and 40 minutes, 47 hours, 40 minutes. And that's pretty stinking fast. But who knows what's going to happen on starting tomorrow morning. And I'm going to start between 2 and 5am. If you would like to follow along the journey, look below, there's going to be a link called, to a spot device. Click on that link and it will give out live updates every like two and a half minutes. So you'll be able to track me as I traverse over these mountains. Starting tomorrow between 2 and 5am. And the record's 47 hours. Who knows, who knows, who knows. And we'll lastly shout out to, well to two people, true love, my wife for crewing. She's got the mission of crewing and bringing the food and water to me along the way. And then also to my brother, Joseph Barton, who taught me about Nolan's. And you know, really inspired me to get out there and start this mountain running adventure. You know, we started, well, we trained for it two and a half years ago. And anyway, so shout out to Joseph for teaching me how to get into the mountains and enjoy them and run them. Alright, I'm stopping. I'm going to upload this to the computer right now. Publish. And then to YouTube. And then drive to Leadvale with True Love. And oh yeah, I won't be publishing any vlogs for the next two to three days. Obviously, you know why. See you at Blake Cannon.