Morning Show Interview
Posted on August 2nd, 2010 by sarah_hassell
Thank you to Denver’s Channel 2 for this great morning show interview!
CBS Early Show! Highpointers!
Posted on July 16th, 2010 by sarah_hassell
A couple of additional press pieces. Many thanks to both the CBS Early Show and Highpointers.org for covering the climb!
- The CBS Early Show featured the 503 climb on their site today: “Boy Scaling 50 Peaks in 50 States in 50 Days“
- Thank you Highpointers! “Twelve Year Old Matt Moniz Closing in on 50 States in 50 Days (or less)”
World Record!
Posted on July 16th, 2010 by sarah_hassell
At 43 days, 3 hours and 51 minutes, the team summited Mauna Kea, the highest point in Hawaii. This is high point #50 in a long road of high points. Congratulations team! You did it!
The View from Granite
Posted on July 15th, 2010 by sarah_hassell
Many thanks to Charley Mace for the photos!
Coverage of the Expedition
Posted on July 15th, 2010 by sarah_hassell
The climb is getting some press! Links to to the recent articles:
- The great Alan Arnette posted an article on his own website and also the Outside Online site. Thank you, Alan!
- KMGH, Denver’s local ABC affiliate featured the team in a wonderful news feature, “Colorado Father-Son Team Climbing 50 Peaks In 50 States In 50 Days.” Thanks, KMGH!
- Matt’s climb headlined Mountain Hardwear’s recent Expedition Updates. Many thanks to MHW for their support!
Granite Peak – #49
Posted on July 14th, 2010 by sarah_hassell
The team left Billings around noon on Tuesday for their attempt on Granite Peak. Coming in at 12,807 ft, Granite is considered a 4+ mountain and is one of the most difficult of the lower 48 high peaks – the team chose to take the West Rosebud Route. This particular route takes you past several lakes and up to Froze to Death Plateau. The elevation gain is pretty stiff.
No contact yet with the team to fill in the rest of the details, but I know that the summit occured around 1:00 pm. My guess is that the team is hustling to find the fastest way from Montana to Hawaii to capture peak #50.
Borah Peak
Posted on July 12th, 2010 by sarah_hassell
At the summit
On Sunday July 11, the team summited peak #48 - Borah Peak, the highest peak in Idaho at 12,668 ft. The weather was a bit sketchy but the team pushed on and made the summit in the late morning.
Scaling a rock face
One team member commented that if it hadn’t been for some of the clouds, it would’ve been one of his best climbing days ever.
Always more snow
Only two more to go!
Tales from Gannett
Posted on July 11th, 2010 by sarah_hassell
At the summit
The climb for Gannett started on Thursday morning out of Pinedale, WY. For the first time on the expedition, the team used four-hoof drive – in the form of horses – for much of Thursday’s trek to the trailhead. The horses were able to take them fairly close to the trail, much farther than originally anticipated with the late season snow.
Four-hoof drive
The team made camp, slept for a short bit and then left at 12:30 am on Wednesday for the summit. The first part was pretty dodgy – there was no moon and a snowfield stood between them and the summit. Night starts in the west definitely have their advantage as “afternoon” storms can take place as early as 11 in the morning. However, the downside to starting so early is that the team was basically climbing via feel and starlight.
Night climb
However the day was theirs and at 8:41 in the morning, the team summited peak #48, Gannett Peak, the highest point in Wyoming.
Gannett Peak, WY
Posted on July 9th, 2010 by sarah_hassell
Congratulations guys! The team hit high point #47 at about 8:41 am today. Gannett Peak, at 13,809 ft, is now one for the books.
From the limited conversations I had with the team yesterday (it was actually a voicemail), I suspect they will take a day to rest (either tomorrow or Sunday) and then head up to Granite Peak in Montana on Monday.
Housekeeping
Posted on July 8th, 2010 by sarah_hassell
If you were having trouble loading the main Expeditions update on the Climb 7 site, we’ve cleaned it up so everything should load faster. If you are looking for your state or are new to the site, check out these links to catch up on the climb via geographic area.
The Big Three (plus one!): AK, NV, CA, and CO
Great Plains and the Southwest: NM, OK, KS, NE, SD, ND, AZ and TX
The South: LA, AR, MO, MS, AL, FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, KY and TN
East, Northeast and Midwest: WV, MD, PA, DE, NJ, CT, MA, NY, VT, NH, ME, RI, IL, WI, MI, MN, IA, IN and OH