Potbelly Perspectives | Three Generations of Hiking the 14ers

Sara started it. The youngest member of the Wille family set a goal to climb all of the fourteeners in Colorado - mountain summits that rise over 14,000 feet. Did Sara realize the poetry in her declaration? For three generations family members had been hiking those same trails, thinking about climbing them all, but she would be the first to succeed. Her determination kept the family motivated to plan trips into the backcounty where they experienced the beauty and challenges intrinsic in the natural world: temperamental weather, shortage of daylight, gear malfunctions, tricky navigation, and jaw dropping beauty. Together they experienced hard lessons along with the many hidden and unexpected gifts along the way.