[pct-l] PCT in 2 month @ 45 miles per day???

[Austin Williams]

If you did this, you'd probably want to go southbound.  I think your chances
of timing the snow-free mountains at that speed would be much higher if you
went southbound.

The southern mountains become passable long before the northern ones do.  So
if you left sobo after the noorthern ones were passable, you know the
southern ones would be passable when you got there.

On the other hand, if you go nobo as soon as the southern mountains are
passable, you may actually get to the northern ones when they are still
unpassable (or at least have so much snow as to make 45 mile days inhumanley
difficult).  Normally we don't have to worry about this, but when you're
doing 45 mile days.... well.... thats a whole different ballgame.

You also need to time your resupply points very precisely.  if your late for
a resupply pickup at the post office on friday and have to wait til'
monday.... your whole record attempt would be shot.  This would defineltely
be a "serious itinerary" kind of hike.

If you eat while you walk and can be happy with just 6 hours of sleep per
night... this can totally be done.

But you should be in emaculate shape before you try it.... not to mention
peak mental condition.

I would love to see someone do this.  Hell, I'd love to *be the one* to do
it.  If I could only convince my wife to let me leave for another 2
months.....

-Austin




On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Reinhold Metzger <reinholdmetzger at cox.net>wrote:

> Mike wrote:
> Hello fellow PCTers.....is it possible to hike 45 miles a day with no
> zeros in order to complete the hike in 2 month......
> -------------------------------------------------
> Reinhold writes:
> Mike anything is possible!!!!
> Has it been done?....Not yet.
> Can you do it?...You need to ask yourself that question.
> Read the below letter from Scott Williamson to me and see if that will
> answer your question.
>
> Scott Williamson, a Triple Crowner, with 14 PCT thru-hikes including 2
> yo-yos and 2 PCT records is the undeniable, undisputable,
> unquestionable  "King of the PCT".
>
> Mike, before you embark on your journey, ask yourself....do you have
> what it takes to beat that record by 5 days, 9hrs, and 58 minutes?
> If the answer is yes.....GO  FOR  IT!!!!
> If the answer is no.......you better think it over.
>
> JMT Reinhold
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        We broke David's PCT record
> Date:   Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:05:54 -0700
>
>
> To:     Reinhold Metzger <reinholdmetzger at cox.net>
>
>
>
> Hey Reinhold, Just wanted you to know that Adam and I broke Davids record!
> We finished at 9:58 PM on 8/12 after a 51 mile day.(We started on 6/8 at
> 12 PM) David's record was 66 days, 7 hours, 16 minutes.
> We finished in 65 days, 9 hours, 58 minutes, breaking it by less than a
> day, but we did this  as backpackers without support, never rode in a
> car thus we walked into and out of all of our resupply towns and stuck
> to the official PCT 100% of the way, including around the closed glacier
> peak section.
> I lost 25 pounds, but feel pretty good, but this hike was not easy!!
> Doing this has only given me even more respect for David Horton and what
> he did in 2005 which was such a high snow year.
> That guy is one of my heroes, in addition to you!
> Anyhow you are the first person outside of David and Joe I have told.
> I wanted you to know first.
> Feel free to post about it on the list if you wish or tell anyone.
> I am proud to have done it along with Adam, but rather than feeling
> triumphant I feel lucky just to have made it to the end of a hike in
> which we averaged 40.5 miles a day for 65 days straight.
> I will be in touch.
>
>  Your friend, Scott
>
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