John's "routine" climbs

Doing something we truly love while having a positive impact on as many people as John did sharing that love is the ultimate. Most men have the opportunity to do this sometime in their life—John embraced the opportunity. He passed his passion and the associated values of his love to many, pushing teenagers to grandparents from their comfort zone to success making better people of us all, on and off the mountain.

As I read many of these posts, I can tell there was something about climbs with John that weren’t exactly routine…most involve some sort of close call and almost always needing headlamps on the decent back to the car. We will shake our head and continue to laugh with you John as we tell these stories….but you always got us home to our family. Thank you.

Janet, thank you for sharing John with us. You and your family are in our prayers and this community cannot begin to pay back the sacrifices you made for John’s time and efforts.

Thank you John. You are and will continue to be missed.