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The chances are pretty good that at some point in our lives we will have an encounter with a nurse. The chances of meeting one who regularly descends 14,000-foot mountain peaks on a snowboard? Not as good, safe to say.<\/p>\n

The combo makes perfect sense to Zach Taylor, RN, a nurse in the Neuro ICU at University of Colorado Hospital. Taylor is nearly nine months into his one-year stint with UCH\u2019s Graduate Nurse Residency Program. He works three 12-hour shifts each week, soaking up the experience and knowledge he needs to care for people with a variety of brain injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is so much to learn, and I love the complexity of ICU patients,\u201d Taylor says. \u201cI get to delve into the pathophysiology of their conditions and learn everything I can about them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zach Taylor in his element on Red Mountain Pass in Colorado. Photo by Teal Potter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When he\u2019s off the unit, Taylor heads outdoors, often to slip skins on his splitboard, shoulder climbing equipment and tote his snowboard to the top of a Colorado 14er. When the conditions are right, he casts off, jumping and turning his way downward through the snow, ice and mountain air. He\u2019s successfully made the descent on 36 of the state\u2019s 54 tallest peaks \u2013 and plans to add the remaining 18 to his list.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s bad \u2013 and that\u2019s good<\/strong><\/p>\n

The state\u2019s community of committed outdoorsmen has taken notice. In February, an \u201cElevation Outdoors\u201d readers\u2019 poll selected Taylor as Colorado\u2019s \u201cResident Badass<\/a>\u201d on snow. Taylor beat out, among other big names, Chris Davenport, who once skied all the 14ers in a one-year period. Rather than basking in the notoriety, Taylor tips his snowboard to Davenport.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinding up number-one was surprising,\u201d Taylor says. \u201cChris Davenport is more badass than I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Taylor in a more sedate environment \u2013 a campus Dazbog \u2013 after a nursing class. Photo by Tyler Smith.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The two share, however, a love of the mountains mixed with a healthy respect for them. It\u2019s here that the slopes and nursing shifts intersect in Taylor\u2019s world.<\/p>\n

The same spirit of intellectual curiosity that draws Taylor to the ICU also informs his outdoor explorations. He has rigorously prepared for each 14er descent \u2013 indeed, every snowboarding and climbing challenge, including what he believes is the only documented snowboarding trip from the top of Mexico\u2019s El Pico de Orizaba<\/a> (elevation 18,405 feet), the third-highest peak in North America. He\u2019s studied books, taken safety classes and always uses the Colorado Avalanche Information Center website<\/a> to gauge slope conditions before taking the plunge.<\/p>\n

The preparations include reviewing wind and storm conditions, the depth of the snowpack and the composition of the snow. For example, faceted snow \u2013 created by wide variations of temperature within the snowpack \u2013 is highly unstable and a major avalanche risk. Once on the mountain, Taylor does his own evaluation of the conditions before heading down. He\u2019s frequently with companions; they take the slope one at a time, \u201call eyes on the person snowboarding until he finds a safe place to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avoiding the rush and the crush<\/strong><\/p>\n Into thin air: Taylor, riding his snowboard jumps off a cliff in the \u201cEast Vail\u201d back country in 2008. Photo by Mike Bannister.\n

It took Taylor one episode to learn the importance of absorbing everything he can about the slope terrain before getting on the snowboard. He was on Berthoud Pass on a late April day about 10 years ago, making turns on fresh powder when the snowpack beneath him spider-webbed and shattered like a pane of glass. He cut off to the left just before a wall of snow, enough to bury and kill him, rushed past.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a wake-up call,\u201d Taylor says. \u201cAfter that, I made a point to take classes and learn as much as I could to avoid avalanches.\u201d<\/p>\n

As with nursing, his love of the outdoors has turned him to service. He\u2019s taught avalanche-safety classes and served as a wilderness first responder for the Vail Mountain Rescue Group<\/a> and the Alpine Rescue Team<\/a>. He estimates he\u2019s taken part in about 150 mountain rescue missions, most for people who get lost or injured, but a small percentage to recover the bodies of those claimed by snow and cold.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s never on the slopes without a transceiver, a signal-emitting device that allows rescuers to find a body buried in snow. Taylor says he counts on transceivers to help him find people in trouble, not the other way around.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs part of avalanche education, I\u2019ve learned how to use transceivers, but also how to avoid avalanches,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s something you hope never to have to use. If you do, something went seriously wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Call of the wild<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mountains of Colorado are actually a waystation in Taylor\u2019s winding path to nursing. He grew up in decidedly unmountainous Dallas with a connection to health care through his mother, who worked as a cardiac ICU nurse in Texas and at Medical Center of the Rockies and is now employed as a PACU nurse at an ambulatory surgery center in Fort Collins.<\/p>\n

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The east face of the Wetterhorn, a 14er in Colorado’s San Juan range that Taylor (pictured) counts among the 36 he has descended on his snowboard. Photo by Ben Jordan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He arrived in Boulder in 2002 for college, took one look at the Flatirons and spent every moment he could find outdoors, including hiking his first 14er (Bierstadt) in 2003. The white stuff he saw all around him on one of his hikes also moved him to grab hold of a snowboard \u2013 which also grabbed hold of him.<\/p>\n

The outdoors were an inspiration, but they took Taylor\u2019s life in a different direction. Snowboarding one day, he hit a rock, fractured his hand and tore the ulnar collateral ligament. That alone was bad enough, but the injuries put an end to his pursuit of a music degree with an emphasis on classical guitar.<\/p>\n

Instead, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience. Far from discouraging him, his mishap eventually sent him to the mountains in search of more outdoor adventure. He settled in Vail, working at a restaurant to finance a 150-day-a-year snowboarding habit. He says he was happy with a mundane job that allowed him to use his free time for climbing mountains and snowboarding.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to believe him when he describes his version of a perfect day in the natural surroundings.<\/p>\n

It includes rolling out of a sleeping bag at 3 a.m., watching the sunrise from a mountain slope, and scrambling through the thin air with ice picks and crampons to the summit. Once there, \u201cIt gets sunny and warm, and you wait for the snow to soften in a t-shirt,\u201d Taylor says. \u201cThen you strap on your snowboard, do jump turns in an aesthetic line and by 1 or 2 p.m. you\u2019re sitting at the mountain base, cooking a meal. You\u2019re healthy tired…. It\u2019s about being in nature, coupled with adrenaline and skill.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n

Digging deeper<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The tiny figure is Taylor climbing the Jamapa Glacier on the slopes of El Pico de Orizaba in 2009. Photo by Chris Burger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He hasn\u2019t lost that feeling. It emerges vividly in the accounts of his mountain experiences that he\u2019s posted on his website<\/a>. Yet during his Vail days, Taylor found something missing. \u201cI was happy in life and doing the things I enjoyed, but I wanted a job that was more fulfilling \u2013 something intellectually stimulating where I would feel that I was making a difference,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

With 60 neuroscience credits, Taylor was able to enroll in an accelerated 16-month nursing program at Metropolitan State University of Denver. At UCH, he worked first as a certified nursing assistant, moved to advanced care partner, and then on to the new-grad program. With the progression, Taylor, now 30, has found a rare work-life balance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking three days a week on the unit allows me to obsessively do my hobby, but at the same time I\u2019m being pushed intellectually and I\u2019m learning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Snowboarding has to make room for nursing in Taylor\u2019s world, but it\u2019s clear that nursing also has to co-exist with snowboarding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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