Here's the thread I started. Hopefully, it may help him get a ride or atleast create interest.
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Since I never heard of the attempt before and it will for the foreseeable
future include both the CDT and AT, I'm going to pass on a thread already started on the pct-l.
Sorry for cross posting to dual or multiple listers
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Who would have thunk it?
Not me. Has this even been mentioned previously?
In a single year Triple Crown attempt, it appears "Squeaky" is going to
finish his northbound PCT hike in less than a weeks time.
http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=89893
I've skimmed through his journal and it appears legit. With a finish date
anticipated for this Saturday or Sunday, another website has him looking for
a ride from Manning Park to Glacier NP or Waterton Lakes, I presume.
Can anyone here help him out? Email
[email protected] or meet him by the trailhead I guess.
Since he had such an "easy" time on the PCT, with all the snow this year, the
CDT should be a piece of cake, the AT one cold muther.
Sly
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In a message dated 7/20/2005 1:25:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Has this been done before? I know the trails have been hiked in their
entirety in a single year, but wasn't that faciltitated by flying around to
multiple 'mini section hikes'? Have people thru-hiked all three trails in
one year?? This seems like one absolutely amazing accomplishment...
also, re AT one cold mutha: remember the boys at Valley Forge....
> In a single year Triple Crown attempt, it appears "Squeaky" is going to
> finish his northbound PCT hike in less than a weeks time.
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My reply....
> Has this been done before? I know the trails have been hiked in their
> entirety in a single year, but wasn't that faciltitated by flying around to
> multiple 'mini section hikes'? Have people thru-hiked all three trails in
> one year??
>
As far as I know Flyin' Brian is the only one to complete it, and in a
calender year. Although he intended to hike each trail straight through,
weather and *snow* got in the way on the AT. He then hiked NM, all the PCT, finished the CDT and then finished the AT in about 10 months. I believe he may have traveled from trailhead to trailhead via car, bus and plane.
Brian was blessed with realitively good weather and low snowpack in the
Sierras. Certainly less than this year, not that it would have stopped him
if it had been the same. Afterall, he's already hiked the High Sierras this year.
According to his journal, Squeaky originally intended on doing the Triple
Crown in less than 200 days. Backpacking, without a support crew, that's a
pace I would think impossible. Still, he's on pace to do it in much less time
than Brian but not within the calender year.