Re[2]: [at-l] Fw: Record time hiking the appalachian trail

[shane@theplacewithnoname.com (Shane Steinkamp)]

> "Peter Palmer Jr., Forty-eight days, 20 hours and 11 minutes."
> claims Shane.
>
>  Probably true. But I know of no official trail agencies keeping
> such records,
>  or specifying in any detail the parameters of what constitutes a
> thru hike, or
>  in any way checking the accuracy of such claims.

Not to start a long ugly thread, but I never understood speed hikers anyway.
Racing to win a race is one thing, but racing against yourself isn't
something I've ever understood.  Their argument that they see everything
everybody else sees just doesn't wash with me.

>  The conference magazine
>  reports whatever anyone wants to claim -- including an absurdly
> foolish claim
>  of a 1936 thru hike by a team of Boy Scouts. If I remember
> rightly, the scouts
>  did Maine in about a week.

I just had an out of body experience and hiked the whole trail in six
minutes.  Does that count?

Shane