Mike Tierney is the first person to ride a unicycle from sea level to the top of Mauna Kea and climbing all 28 Colorado passes crossing the Continental Divide.
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Jennifer Pharr is claiming she did the Appalachian Trail in a record 46 days going from Katahdin on June 16. And she had time to blog!
The Powell Tribune has an article on Tim Schoessler who is peak bagging Wyoming and Montana.
Pat Farmer is planning to run from the North Pole to the South Pole this year.
11-year-old Jackson Lindley is seeking to hike in all 50 states in 50 days. They may not be highpoints but they’re still an adventure.
Benjamin Wetherby, caretaker for lodges in Vermont’s Green Mountain National Forest on Mount Mansfield, plans to hike the 25-mile Adirondack Great Range loop with his Australian cattle dog, Jadis, and friend, Michael DelSignore on Septmeber 11. The Great Range loop traverses eight of the Adirondacks’ 46 high peaks, including Mount Marcy, Haystack, Basin, Saddleback, Gothics, Armstrong, and Upper and Lower Wolfjaw. They are doing it to benefit National Breast Cancer Coalition and the Friederich’s Ataxia Research Alliance.
12-year-old Matt Moniz has completed on Mauna Kea hiking 50 summits in 43 days, 3 hours, 51 minutes and 9 seconds.
He set out to do 50 summits in 50 days or less. He is doing this before entering the seventh grade in his home of Boulder, Colorado this fall. He only has Mauna Kea left.
*Denver Channel 7 interview
*Twitter account
*Climb7.com
*Outside Magazine interview
Here’s an interview when he did the Colorado 14ers at age 11.
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Brent Okita climbed Rainier for the 400th time on June 24. A total of three people have climbed it that many times.
Signon San Diego reports on “Crazy Jack” Northam who has climbed Mount Whitney 86 times including 4 “yo yo” where he climbed it up and back twice in a day. His goal is to join a club of people who have summited it 100 times. Here’s our post on the Whitney Portal Store asking for a list.