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Email ocean@summitridgedigital.com. Available for interviews, podcasts, studio hits, and on-the-ground Las Vegas segments, by arrangement.

Ocean talks openly about his recovery, but he does not discuss how the shooting happened. If asked, his public line is: "It was a bad situation and I was lucky to survive."

Bios

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Fast facts

Name

Ocean Coldiron (legal name Brandon Coldiron). Goes by Ocean.

Brand and handle

Ocean Outdoors, @oceansoutdoors on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok

Home base

Las Vegas (lives full time in a Grand Design RV)

State high points

All 48 lower U.S. state high points, July 2023 to July 2026

First of the 48

Mount Whitney, California, July 2023, a solo midnight-to-afternoon day hike

Last of the lower 48

White Butte, North Dakota, July 2026, at sunset

Michigan

Mount Arvon

Nevada

Boundary Peak, October 2024

Notable climbs

Solo Gannett Peak (September 2023, including flooded river crossings); Granite Peak after two lightning turnarounds, summit on the third try (September 2024); Mount Rainier unguided on a rope team (June 2024, after Shasta and Hood)

Still ahead

Mauna Kea and Denali for the 50-state list; the Seven Summits, planned around 2032

Running

Ultrarunner; 2025 Las Vegas Marathon; New River Gorge 50K; five half marathons before December 2018; first run after the shooting was a Friendsgiving 5K in November 2023

Comeback

Shot 13 times on December 23, 2018. About six months in a wheelchair, then crutches, a walker, and a leg boot. Bullet-removal surgery in 2019. Bone graft at Rush in January 2022. About five years on pain medication until the leg healed. First mountain: the high point near Hope, Idaho, in May 2023, then Snowshoe Peak and Mount Whitney.

Work

More than 15 years in healthcare technology: 125 integrations shipped, data imported for more than 5 million patients, 100 TB of historical data migrated. Founder of Summit Ridge Digital. Starts November 16, 2026 as Senior Sustaining and Forward Deployed Engineer at Abacus Insights.

Podcast

Guest on Trail Talk: Highpointing Podcast, Episode 81, "Ocean Coldiron: Nomad, Adventurer, Highpointer," published November 2026

Story angles

One-line hooks

• A Las Vegas local who finished all 48 lower-U.S. state high points while living full time in an RV and holding a healthcare technology job.
• A Las Vegas local who was shot 13 times in 2018, then stood on all 48 lower-U.S. state high points after learning to walk, hike, and run again.
• A Las Vegas ultrarunner who ran the 2025 Las Vegas Marathon and finished every lower-48 state high point from an RV.

Angles

• Las Vegas local. A Las Vegan who finished all 48 lower-state high points from a Grand Design RV, ran the 2025 Las Vegas Marathon, and is putting down deeper roots in the valley's outdoor and running communities. Nevada's Boundary Peak, October 2024, is a natural local detail. Good timing pegs include winter hiking safety, New Year fitness, and Las Vegas Marathon week in January 2027.
• The comeback. Shot 13 times in 2018, then about six months in a wheelchair, surgeries including a 2022 bone graft at Rush, an RV, and all 48 lower-state high points. His first mountain came in May 2023 and his first run back was a 5K that November.
• Know when to turn around. The finished list is verifiable: 48 of 50, July 2023 to July 2026, with trip stories on the high points page. Strong moments from his Trail Talk interview: a solo midnight start on Whitney, a solo Gannett Peak with flooded river crossings, two lightning retreats on Granite Peak before a third-try summit in September 2024, and an unguided Mount Rainier climb on a rope team in June 2024. The turnaround stories are a safety angle as much as an adventure angle.
• RV and nomad life. A full-time Grand Design RV, a demanding remote job, and a three-year highpointing project. Useful threads: keeping work stable on the road, how a trailer becomes base camp for big climbs, and what beginners get wrong about full-time RV life.
• Burner life on wheels. He has attended Burning Man and regional burns, including Southern Nevada's scene. A traveler who already lives on wheels and builds a life around chosen community, and who treats photos of other people at burns with care: faces in burn-event photos are not released.
• Tech and AI. More than 15 years in healthcare technology, with a concrete record: 125 integrations, data imported for more than 5 million patients, and 100 TB of historical data migrated. He founded Summit Ridge Digital, a web and digital services studio, and is joining Abacus Insights as Senior Sustaining and Forward Deployed Engineer. He can speak about applied work in healthcare data, building systems that hold up in production, and engineering from the road.

Suggested interview questions

General and local

1. You call Las Vegas home base and live full time in an RV. What made this the right place to work from, train from, and come back to?
2. You ran the 2025 Las Vegas Marathon and finished the lower-48 high points in July 2026. How did the city and its trails figure into that year?
3. What do people get wrong about living an outdoor life from Las Vegas?
4. How are you trying to plug into local run clubs, hiking groups, and the valley's outdoor scene?

Comeback

5. You have said you do not discuss how the shooting happened. What do you want people to take from what came after?
6. What did the first six months after December 2018 look like, day to day?
7. Your first mountain was in May 2023, and your first run back was a 5K that November. Why did hiking come before running?
8. What would you tell someone who is starting over after a serious injury?

Outdoors and mountaineering

9. Why start the list with a solo day hike of Mount Whitney?
10. You turned around twice for lightning on Granite Peak and later summited on a third try. How do you decide to go back, or to stop?
11. What was harder: the big technical peaks, or the long drives between the smaller ones?
12. Denali, Mauna Kea, and the Seven Summits around 2032: how are you thinking about the next decade?

Burner community

13. You have been to Burning Man and regional burns, including in Southern Nevada. What do you take from that community into the rest of your life on the road?
14. How do RV life and burner culture overlap for you?
15. You are careful about photos of other people at burns. What does a consent-minded approach look like in practice?

Endurance

16. You are an ultrarunner and mountaineer based in Las Vegas. How do you see cycling fitting into that endurance life?
17. What have desert heat and valley terrain taught you about training here?

RV and work

18. How do you hold a demanding remote job from a travel trailer?
19. What does a typical work-and-climb week look like on the road?
20. What have you learned about full-time RV life that beginners often get wrong?

Tech

21. You have shipped 125 healthcare integrations and imported data for more than 5 million patients. What does that work actually look like?
22. What is different about engineering from the road?
23. You also founded Summit Ridge Digital. How do you balance a studio, a full-time role, and the outdoor project?

Press photos

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