Slowest hike

[JustaTouron]

With all this talk of fastest hike. Fastest supported, fastest unsupported, fastest NOBO, fastest SOBO.
My question is what is the record for the slowest thru-hike? Not counting zero days cause then it will just be someone who took 25 years off in between starting a finishing so only hiking days count so if it took someone 250 days end to end but they took 15 zeros then the total hiking days would be 235.

Anybody have any stats on that.

[RCBear]

I dont know the answer but im guessing it is someone with alot of accrued vacation days.

[The Solemates]

forget their names but a couple hiked in the early 2000s and took 14 months to hike the trail and were continuously hiking. they hiked with a little rat dog.

[fredmugs]

This wasn't a thru hike but when I was staying at Pine Ellis back in 2005 there was a guy in his 70s staying there and it was his sixth year on the trail. Starting from Springer he only hiked to the next shelter or lodging option. He had his journal with him and he showed me days where he only did 3 miles.

[springerfever]

A fellow by the name of O.D Coyote hiked the entire trail in 1980 in 263 days. He was the hiker that originally coined the name "slackpacker" as one that ambles on the trail and stops whenever he feels like it. The term has recently taken on the connotation of a hiker that covers the trail without carrying his pack due to being shuttled along the trail. O.D. started 2/29/80 and finished 11/17/80 GAME.

[Sly]

forget their names but a couple hiked in the early 2000s and took 14 months to hike the trail and were continuously hiking. they hiked with a little rat dog.

Cesar and Maud.

Beavis hiked the trail in '97 SOBO and took a full 365 days to do it to fit the strict definition of thru-hike(r). I can't recall where I ran into him (someplace in Virginia) but he had a life size cut-out of Kathy Ireland strapped to his back.

[kayak karl]

the slowest hike isn't finished yet.

[peakbagger]

My fisrt section of the AT was in 1970, my last section was 2008

[modiyooch]

My fisrt section of the AT was in 1970, my last section was 2008

that beats me. mine was 1979 to 2010