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The White Mountains happened :)

That part of Maine is maple-birch-beech up to about 2000', with hemlocks, etc, in shaded valleys. Then subalpine spruce-fir above to treeline.

Wow, 11 miles in 2:50. He finally started running today. That's 3.8 mph; double the speed he's been able to muster since the Whites. That's running. Looks like a few hours of sleep must have helped,...

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Note that his speed was cut about in half when he went from Vermont and Southern NH (dirt/mud) in to New Hampshire and Maine (rocks and, uh, more rocks). If I want to go fast, give me those...

30 Miles
18 Hours
1.67 mph
~5000' to gain.
It's going to be damn close. But a lot of it is in the daylight (which should be good by 4:30 up those parts)

At Nahmakanta Lake it looks like 41 miles in 25 hours = 1.65 mph. But … if you add four miles for the final climb (1000 feet = 1 mile is a pretty good estimate, I think) you get 1.8 mph. But he has a...

It seems that it is mostly a recommendation, little more. But if he and an entourage start up the trail at 12:30, I'd imagine some rangers will have words with them. I doubt they'd stop him.

They...

How much does the 4000 feet of climb in the last five miles matter? Does it equal about 4 extra miles?

Media: Can we have a permit to go in to Baxter and cover this?
BSP: Well, yeah, I guess so. But only one, and with the following conditions, blah blah blah.
Media: Okay, oh, and a helicopter?
BSP:...

He hasn't run (>4 mph on flats) anything since before the Whites. Where he could have in the Whites—and there are a couple of places (Ethan Pond, Franklin-Lakes)—and after (Sabbath Day Pond area) he...

She probably saw as many rocks in a day as he will see in a mile. Although the last half of the 100 isn't that bad.

Pleasant is a total climb of 2000' over 6 miles, 1100 feet in the last 1.3
Moxie is 1900' over 5 miles, 1400' over the last 2

then it's flat until after the Greenville Road in Monson to the 2000'...

Interesting. Rereading the hiking page it says it is "recommended." I remember them being quite a bit firmer when I was hiking in '06. In October, anyway, it was "get on the trail by 9 or you ain't...

I've run those areas. With the exception of the steepest climbs, you can generally muster 3 mph running.

Forecast: Highs in the low 70s, lows in the 50s, dewpoints around 50 from here on out. Possibility of rain on Sunday. Good weather for hiking (lucky, if you ask me). Weather is on his side. Does he...

I'd say perhaps more importantly he has to get to Abol Stream by noon. If he gets there by noon he should be able to make it up in 5:15. Yeah, it's steep, but he will be able to drag himself up at 1...

Ran? 1.8 mph?

In theory, there are negative ones, but they haven't ever been used.

Uh, not how it works. I think you're confusing it with daylight time. A leap second adds a second. So it goes:

23:59:59
23:60:60 <-- This is an extra second
00:00:00


Let's say two people...

So basically, at the rate he's moving, he has to go all night, including over the crockers. It's not super-easy terrain in there. At some point, hiking 24 hours a day, nonstop, will catch up with...

Not a bad ford unless it rains a lot (it hasn't) in which case the river probably comes up quickly. The 2x12 cabled to a rock usually helps, too. It's also only ~0.5 miles from the end of the...

This is a good radar site.

Here are model outputs for KGNR (Greenville airport) and KMLT (Millinocket). Doesn't look like too much rain, and I bet he'd love some cooler weather overnight and...

Route 17 to Route 4 is the easiest section between Moosilauke and past Little Bigelow.

That's a problem. He needs to average 1.85 mph to get to Katahdin for the FKT. Not average that speed when hiking, but he has 132 hours to go 244 miles, any sleep or rest included. Maybe his goal is...

Yes, but … in that case he should have blasted through the portion from South Twin to Guyot, Zealand to Ethan Pond, Mizpah to Lakes. All of these are just that easy, but he only made 2-2.5 mph.