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Of Mice and Mountaineers is the audio collection of one particularly unathletic outdoor enthusiast’s tales of sometimes barely surviving said outdoors, mostly the Colorado Rocky Mountains and the 14,000-foot peaks crowning them.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A funny, breathless climb story about being almost at the end.
Geo's second-to-last Colorado 14er report gets by on the joke as much as the climb itself. It stays close to the body: breathless pauses, chunky holds, awkward gully work, and a long run of chalkstones that wear down both patience and lungs.
A funny, obsessive mountain ranking that feels earned rather than random.
The piece turns Colorado's 14ers into a personal ledger of joy, suffering, and hard-won preference. The premise is plainly absurd, but the joke lands because the ranking keeps returning to specific peaks, stubborn effort, and real irritation, from mountains that deserve to be…
Trail miles, gear sense, and outdoor memory.
Garage talk for the slow trail crowd.
Geo ranks all 58 Colorado 14ers from worst to best in a personal list that leans heavily on steepness, looseness, scrambling, and how each climb actually felt in mostly dry summer conditions.
Geo's Of Mice and Mountaineers episode "At the Mountains of Madness and Meekness" revisits an October 4, 2023 ascent of Meeker via its Southwest Ridge after earlier emergencies on Longs Peak, Pikes Peak, Bierstadt, and Pyramid.
Geo’s Of Mice and Mountaineers episode “Finally Finishing the F---ing Fourteeners for the Feeble” recounts the September 2, 2023 attempt to complete Colorado’s 14er list after 18 years.
Solo host Geo recounts his August 19, 2023 ascent of Crestone Needle — his 57th of 58 Colorado 14ers — with climbing partner Mary.