[pct-l] PCT hiker stats

[ambery-80243 at mypacks.net]

Heather "Mama Bear" and her nine year old daughter Sierra "Monkey" made it to the border on September 23rd.
You can see their journal at sierrapct.blogspot.com

I have been skeptical about the supposed thru-hike by Barracuda as well.  Every blog of every hiker mentions him until a certain point in California, and then Sparrow's own blog talks about taking time off in August, and I couldn't find anyone who had seen them in Oregon or Southern Washington.  People started running into them suddenly in northern Washington, in what seems like would have been way to many miles to cover in the amount of time they had.  Still a great accomplishment, but I think Monkey is the current record holder as the youngest PCT thru-hiker.
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>So does this mean that Sunshine still holds the record for the youngest
>thru hiker?
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>On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Timothy Nye <timpnye at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I ran into Barracuda at Blue Lake in Washington while I was with Love Bug.
>> He was hiking with his dad, as his mom, Sparrow, had gotten off the trail
>> with a bad case of poison oak contracted in California. They said then that
>> Barracuda had flipped up to central Oregon from the Hat Creek rim to escape
>> the desert like conditions that he was having trouble with. Later ran into
>> Sparrow and Barracuda at Stehekin where Sparrow referred to a thru hike.
>> However, other thrus: Analogue, Fairway, Malarkey, Bladder Pillow noted
>> that they had been doing 35's, while the two had acknowledged not having
>> broken a 30 and rarely a 25 ,yet were in Stehekin ahead of them.
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>> Not saying it wasn't a great accomplishment.
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>> Just probably not a thru hike.
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