No Elbrus Race 2014

If you've been following my Facebook Pages and other blogs, you'd know by now that none of us here were able to go to Elbrus Race 2014. For myself I had a slew of injuries and illnesses that prevented me from training, so I was going to go as a spectator and go for my summit as part of my Seven Summits Quest.

My visa application ended up being a total mess, and I wasn't able to solve it until 5 days before I had to fly to Russia, and then I wasn't able to get the string of flights that would get me from here to there on time to be picked up in the van with everyone else.

Long Story Short: I didn't go.

I had a friend from Colorado Springs running a trip that I was supposed to hook up with, and they posted regularly on Facebook. Then on the day of the race, the weather, as seems to be typical, closed in and they had to bail like in 2012 and 2013.

Post by ElbrusRace.

There's the video shot about 500' from the summit. As it is right now, had I gone as a climber coincidentally there during the race I would have probably gone for the summit the day before, which was beautiful. There is always 2015. I was considering going the end of June and just getting the summit in my own style and on my own terms, now that I have it better figured out.