James Dziezynski - Climbing Colorados Thirteeners: The Best Hikes and Scrambles over 13,000 Feet

James Dziezynski is the best-selling author of Best Summit Hikes in Colorado, Best Summit Hikes: Denver to Vail, and The Best Indian Peaks Wilderness Hikes. James has worked as a professional writer and editor for over twenty years and is currently the senior editor at RootsRated.com and contributing editor at Elevation Outdoors Magazine. His work has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Backpacker, the Denver Post, the Boulder Weekly, the Boulder Daily Camera, Elevation Outdoors, Womens Adventure, The Bark, Discover Magazine, and many more outlets, both print and online.

Big thanks to my wife Sheila and our timeless hiking dogs, Mystic and Fremont. After thirteen years of big mountain adventures, the pups are enjoying a fine retirement at our home in Boulder, Colorado.

Also thanks to the friends who have joined the fun (and sometimes the misery) in the mountains during this project: Richard Harvey, Meredith Knauf, David Tanguay, Daniela Tanguay, Janet Seston, Jenny Salentine, Paul Lenhart, Paul Perea, and Bart DeFerme.

Additional thanks to Jessica dArbonne and the team at FalconGuides, Jon Bradford, Liba Kopeckova, Senad Rizvanovic, Chris Tomer, Marie Willson, Thomas Lunt, Doug Schnitzspahn, Nancy Coulter-Parker, Laura Keresty, and Paul Retrum.

Finally, thanks to Cathy Herbstler and the team and Leki Poles, Suzanne Loring, Jeff Banowetz, Marcus Woolf, Blaine Bachelor, Abbie Lang, Jeff Bartlett, Wendy Cranford, and Candice Blodgett.

This list is a collected resource from the USGS, the Colorado Mountain Club, Gerry Roachs 13ers list (www.climb.mountains.com/Project_Island_files/CO_13ers.shtml), and the List of John 13ers elevations.

Mountains marked with S for an elevation are soft-ranked. Unnumbered 13ers are named/recognized but not ranked due to the 300-foot clearance rule. Highlighted rows are 13ers featured in this guide.