In the winter, Bonnet stays strong as a competitive ski mountaineer. He's made a name for himself on a similarly grueling venue in his country called the Vertical Kilometer. But this kind of test was not exactly new to the 27-year-old. “The first question they ask when I pick them up is, ‘How many did you get? How did it go?’ And the next thing they say is, ‘That’s amazing.While aspens steal the show in Colorado, this native tree also delivers fall colorsīonnet, representing Salomon's vaunted international team, said he had never tried the Incline in his previous two visits to town (he won the Pikes Peak Marathon in 2019 and finished 17th in 2017). “On bad days, that’s the best thing,” Geissler said. She’d get done in time to pick up her two kids from school. She’d spend the morning and afternoon on four, five, six or more laps. Sometimes she opted for the sound of her huffing and puffing, her footsteps and the breeze through the trees – a kind of “meditation,” she said, far away from the beeps and alarms of the ICU. She’d work part time at the hospital, two 12-plus hour shifts a week, and the other days she’d be on the Incline. “Everybody’s breathing hard, trying to do something really hard.”įew try for 1,000 laps in a year. “You can’t go anywhere and see more alive people,” Geissler said. There was something about the people on the Incline. “And sunlight is always the best medicine.” As punishing as the Incline was, “When my heart rate gets up, it helps me work through anxiety,” Geissler said. The losses weighed heavy the next year, too. But that year in the intensive care unit, “we had some extremely sick patients,” Geissler said, “and it felt like no matter what we were able to do, they just weren’t going to make it.” Her idea of nursing was helping people, saving them. “Right when COVID was taking off,” Geissler said. She especially needed it after starting at UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central in 2020. It turned out nothing granted her relief like the Incline she’d go up and down two or three times a week. After climbing the Incline for the first time in 2013, “I told myself I would never do it again,” she said.īut she needed a stress reliever by 2018, when a career change had her working through nursing school. Which sounds crazy to her when she thinks about it. “I thought it would be cool to round that out,” Geissler said. A total of 1,200 would mean an average of 100 laps a month for 12 months. The Incline’s record keepers in July recognized Geissler as the first woman to log 100 laps in a month, before her best 132 in November. “Right now, the goal is to try to get to 1,200,” she said.įor the most laps in a year, that would put her firmly in third only behind Greg Cummings (1,825) and Roger Austin (1,719). Her calendar year runs through March 31, so since that 1,004th climb, she’s been busy setting the women’s bar higher. She follows Rachel Jones, who was recognized as the first woman to join the small club in December with 1,003 laps. Geissler, 42, became the fifth person to record and be verified for 1,000 laps within 365 days. It was Geissler’s 1,004th climb up the mountain’s vertical, brutal set of wooden ties in a calendar year – a high mark by a woman. – On a recent bluebird afternoon, Chasidey Geissler’s friends and family were atop the Manitou Incline to celebrate a record-setting ascent.
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