Back in 1954, Boulder’s Dale Johnson must have seemed like a madman. He was the first to seek permission from the National Park Service (NPS) to climb the Diamond — a 900-foot plaque of vertical ...
At 3:20 a.m. on the first day of winter, Dec. 21, Chris Deuto left the Longs Peak trailhead aiming for the Diamond: a 900-foot wall of vertical granite on the mountain’s northeast face. “I knew it ...