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Matt Moniz hiked to Mount Everest base camp in Asia and climbed the highest peaks in Europe, Africa and South America before he did his first Colorado fourteener last year — at age 11.
So the Boulder seventh-grader established his reputation for precocity well before he and his father, Mike, tackled this summer’s project: reaching the highest point of the 50 states in 50 days or fewer.
Beginning June 3 with an ascent of Alaska’s Denali (the highest peak in North America at 20,320 feet) and culminating July 16 on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea (13,804 feet), they completed the odyssey in 43 days, 3 hours, 51 minutes. That bettered Denver schoolteacher Mike Haugen’s previous “high-pointers” record by two days, 15 hours, 11 minutes.
Like last year’s project — doing 14 fourteeners in 14 days, which actually took only eight — Moniz did the high-point challenge in part to raise awareness of pulmonary arterial hypertension, a cardiovascular disease that afflicts his best friend. Moniz said his friend experiences headaches and shortness of breath.
“It’s basically like being at altitude, 2 4/7,” Matt Moniz said of his friend’s rare disease. “I feel really, really blessed to be able to choose to do high-altitude mountaineering. After every trip we have a sleepover, we play a bunch of games and I show pictures, tell him a bunch of stories.”
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I’d like to say that I’ve taken my kids on outings and that we’ve experienced new and wonderful adventures this month. Wouldn’t it be amazing if I could share of our many hikes in the wonderful Colorado mountains, or perhaps tell of a day spent at the Denver Zoo where we took a picnic and [...]
On my 18th birthday, I had an allergic reaction to my candle-covered treat. It was cherry pie, my absolute favorite.
A few months earlier, I had an allergic reaction to a cherry pie dessert I snarfed during a high school debate trip to Salt Lake City.
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I am a soccer mom.
Or at least I really want to be. After a failed attempt at introducing my daughter Hadley to soccer a couple of years ago, the dream was dead. I vowed I would only enroll her again if she asked.
That blessed day came a couple of months ago. Within an hour of [...]
Let’s face it: most of us don’t need an excuse to indulge in a Dairy Queen Blizzard® but this is a great one.
On Thursday, Aug. 5, Dairy Queen will host the fourth annual North American Miracle Treat Day, with $1 or more from every Blizzard® sold being donated to Children’s Miracle Network, a nonprofit organization [...]
Imagine, for the sake of argument, that you only had time to experience 10 adventures in this state. What would those journeys – so special to this purple-mountained mecca – be? Following are our suggestions.
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At 14,060 feet, Mount Bierstadt (above) is one of the easiest to ascend, with a wide trail that [...]
Dear Mama Drama:
I am really worried about my son. He is three years old and has a really hard time handling frustration. When he doesn’t get his way or becomes frustrated with something, he starts pulling out his hair. He has done this so much that he has large bald spots all over his head.
I [...]
The thing about moms who work outside their homes is that we love to hate the moms who don’t.
Not as individuals. But as a demographic of nameless, faceless minivan drivers toward whom we direct a venomous mix of resentment, bewilderment and envy.
We spot them in their workout clothes and tell ourselves their days must be [...]
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