Reflecting on climbing the highest mountain in Colorado also made me reflect on the nature of the relationships, romantic and otherwise, that were bringing me down at the same time.

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A third outing in Colorado’s fourteeners may not have been as epic as Lord of the Rings, but there was a volcano involved.

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Getting revenge for a failed attempt on America's Mountain helped prove to me that mountains may be Romantic in the capital-R sense that inspired poets like Katharine Bates, but they are not conducive to romance in the lowercase sense.

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A first time on one of Colorado’s easiest 14,000-foot mountains proved that love or at least lust aren’t so easy but may be electrifying, especially when one’s father and the high country’s thunderous weather are involved.

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