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mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 19, 2012 - 09:09pm PT
In elevation gain human powered climbing, biking, hiking, or skiing.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jun 19, 2012 - 09:20pm PT
Combined up and down? Like Whitney or keeler, etc, in a day? Grand cnyn rim to rim...quadruple dipesea? Silver state 50/50? (aprox 20k'), various ski tours?

If so, yes.
climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Jun 19, 2012 - 09:22pm PT
yes

anything else you would like to know?
klk

Trad climber
cali
Jun 19, 2012 - 09:39pm PT
up and down would be too easy, i suspect. pretty big club.

not sure if i've done 10k vertical in one day, but possibly. if not, maybe a bit less. i'd have to go back and start counting contour lines.

at some point in it becomes a bit silly. 10k at high el is a lot different than doing baker two or three times in one day. 10k of hiking is a lot different than 10k of technical.

lots of folks thought mr was lying in his 14k claim on tahquitz. it can be surprisingly difficult to measure vertical relief, much less elevation gain over an extended distance of rough ground.
klk

Trad climber
cali
Jun 19, 2012 - 09:48pm PT
Its called gps.

lol
TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Jun 19, 2012 - 09:51pm PT
Probably at least a few times hiking/peak bagging (pre gps) never technical.

As far as MR's claims, he did El Camino and lapped us once as we were getting ready to do Coffin Nail.

Wasn't even out of breath.
Even had time to flirt with the princess and chat for a minute.

14K of Tahquitz in a day was certainly within his ability.

klk

Trad climber
cali
Jun 19, 2012 - 09:58pm PT
tgt-- tahquitz is one of the best places one could go to pile up max vertical tech mileage. compact, high, lots of easy and wirable terrain, moderate elevation. he based his claim on pitch count, though, and most pitches at t aren't vertical.

doesn't bother me too much. maybe it was only 12.1. someone would have to get ueber geek with an inclinometer to get a better approximation. and even then, you couldn't account for all the little up-then-down moments involved in the traversing bits.

one of the reasons the 10k-in-a-day deal is a bit silly.

eventually, this will become one of those stupid records that gets measured in mileage on a calibrated stepper indoors.
E Robinson

climber
Salinas, CA
Jun 19, 2012 - 10:08pm PT
Some really fun ones...Haleakala, Snow Creek on San Jacinto, Telescope Peak, Junipero Serra and Cone Peak in the Santa Lucia Range...all good fun.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 19, 2012 - 10:30pm PT
Talking 10,000 uphill. Done it once mountain biking crow peak 7 times in 24 hours. Trying a hundred mile ride on sat that will have 16,000 if completed. Something like 35 are biking it but I ub nderstand that around 200 are trying to run the course.
apogee

climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
Jun 19, 2012 - 10:34pm PT
Did the N Face of San Jacinto (Snow Creek) in about 11 hours once- that was pretty damn close to 10K in a day.
Onewhowalksonrocks

Mountain climber
portland, Maine
Jun 19, 2012 - 10:53pm PT
Left LAX 6:30 am, arrived at camp @ 17000 ft by 4:30pm.
Airplane, car and hike. Had bloody nose, head hurt and couldnt sleep. Did the summit next morning and then went to Mexico City for 2 days.
bvb

Social climber
flagstaff arizona
Jun 19, 2012 - 10:59pm PT
Once, and only once. I was bedridden for three days afterwards. Mos Def not my cup of tea. Much prefer 100' of 5.12 thin crack, ftw.
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Jun 19, 2012 - 11:02pm PT
Tour of Two Forests Double. 13,000 I think.
G_Gnome

Trad climber
Pebble Wrestling.... Badly lately.
Jun 19, 2012 - 11:17pm PT
Not sure why one would want to do that!?
ThomasKeefer

Trad climber
San Diego
Jun 19, 2012 - 11:23pm PT
I had a 20k ft day in this ultra that traversed 3 countries in some pretty amazing scenery..

http://www.ultratrailmb.com/page/39/Profile.html

and, no, that is not using the Whitney = 12k method - it is 20k positive vertical.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2012 - 12:04am PT
There has to be some on here who have done it on mostly 5th class terain.
climbski2

Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
Jun 20, 2012 - 12:11am PT
Lots I'd say. If a punter like me has done it...

Ok i just bragged on ST where super badass real climbers actually post serious and relevant climbing history..

I will go back in my hole now...
Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber
San Francisco
Jun 20, 2012 - 12:27am PT
Yes.
nature

climber
CO
Jun 20, 2012 - 12:31am PT
i think the up and down from babo from where jefe and i started was 7K in one day. it had to be close - he chapped his ball sack pretty bad.
John M

climber
Jun 20, 2012 - 12:33am PT
10,000 feet GAIN ? that is a lot of gain. I would like to hear what people did. Not just that they did it.

10,000 feet of elevation gain and loss is easy.

Just gain.

Not so much.
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