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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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I never understood the whole obsession with 4267.20 meters.
Er, I mean 14,000 feet.
I met a guy who claimed to have climbed "every single peak in Colorado." He had been climibng in Colorado his whole life.
Impressed, I said, "WOW! Every single peak in Colorado! There must be thousands of peaks in Colorado!"
He looked at me funy and said, "No - there are only fifty-four."
How you spell doofus?
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2012 - 11:37am PT
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Bump! Can't believe people aren't reading this narrative and being blown away as I am!
Peter
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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WOW! Amazing, is there to be a video of him in action?
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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four and a half days was daunting enough.
i'm getting plantar fascitis just reading about it
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Strong work!
I ate salty, greasy, high-energy “real food” between legs, including half a pizza, several turkey-and-cheese bagels, and some leftover noodles, cabbage, and cottage cheese.
For some reason that cracked me up.
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol
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Incredible! When I photographed Russ, Hans, and Tony in 1998 it took 9.5 days and was a record. The route wasn't refined yet, Williamson was officially closed, and leave it to say we did a lot more hiking up and down passes. It was apparent that the time could be greatly reduced and its been inspiring to see it whittled down over the years.
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Gene
climber
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He did them all in my average Shasta time. Incredible effort!
g
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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I enjoyed the tr as well. awesome job.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Wow! Quite an accomplishment!!!
I noticed Sean's entry in the summit register on Milestone a few months ago. He climbed the peak last Sept. in 7 hrs 25 minutes, all the way from the Shepherd Pass trailhead! I didn't believe the entry, until I did a bit of online searching and found out more about Sean.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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This is just incomprehensible to me. The Olympic athletes have nothing on this guy. Congratulations!
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westhegimp
Social climber
granada hills
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Congrats Superman!
Wes
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gonzo chemist
climber
Fort Collins, CO
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"Though it is a nice-looking lake, Helen of Troy is a bad place for humans."
I've been in the area, and I agree.
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Brian
climber
California
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Very impressive!
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bajaandy
climber
Escondido, CA
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Holy smokes! Frikin' CRUSHED it! Way to go man. That's uber impressive.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Why is Helen of Troy a bad place for humans?
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Though it is a nice-looking lake, Helen of Troy is a bad place for humans. The route to its west is blocked by cliffs, and most of the shore is loose talus extending down to (and, as I found once, below) the waterline. It is also home to swarming talus gnats, who attacked me every time the loose rocks shifted and swarmed me as I refilled my water bladder. I made my way around the east shore as fast as I could, then sat well away from the lake to have a sandwich and check out the route up Williamson.
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GhoulweJ
Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
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Sooo good.
Way to go!!!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Stuff like this is superhuman
and may have to involve performance or awakeness enhancing drugs (like pots of coffee or something) not that I judge that cause this aint the olympic
Congrats!!
Peace
Karl
Edit: from the piece:
I brought salt pills and ibuprofen on all legs, which I used as needed. For the sleep-deprived second and third legs, I brought the caffeinated versions of energy bars and gels. I drank beet juice before each leg, since its nitrates are supposed to increase performance by about 2%.
See waste product..! Loaded Gels!
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part-time communist
Mountain climber
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pretty incredible.
I remember quite a few years back, Sean and I did long dayhikes in the Sierra like Williamson and Langley back to back dayhikes, our first, and then expanded to many many more dayhikes in the Sierra, then he moved away to new mexico. Congratulations are def in order.
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Thanks, all.
Regarding performance enhancing drugs, the caffeine was helpful on the first night, but probably not necessary. I considered Sudafed, but decided against it, since I haven't tried it before and it's banned in real competition.
Dayhiking in the greater ranges is something I would like to try, but that's taking things to another level, e.g. Christian Stangl did Aconcagua in 6 hours round-trip from base camp, 4h25 up. That's climbing 2000 ft/hr from 14,100' to 22,800'.
Regarding Milestone, that was actually the start of my longest day last summer, hitting four peaks on that section of the Great Western Divide. With such a long approach, I try to get as much done as I can while I'm out there.
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Pajamas
climber
Wilderness, Home
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Amazing.
Along with the recent new JMT record, the sleep deprivation to do these things is hard to wrap the mind around.
Keep crushing it Sean!
Round trip from the highway for Aconcagua, sub 24 hours, right in your wheelhouse.
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bearbnz
Trad climber
East Side, California
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Great job Sean, that is an amazing accomplishment. I climbed all of the Cali 14ers once, but it took a couple months.
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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That is amazing Sean. congratulations !!!
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spyork
Trad climber
Tunneling out of prison
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Congrats. Thats an amazing effort! Kind of boggles the mind though...
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em kn0t
Trad climber
isle of wyde
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Amazing achievement. Great to read the peak-by-peak TR. Its simplicity seems to reflect the incredible laser focus required to do a link-up which to of us humans would be inconceivable.
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James Doty
Trad climber
Phoenix, Az.
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hey Sean in the narrative you mentioned your heart rate. Do you use a hr monitor? any tricks for keeping the elastic band from falling down?
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Congrats. I couldn't do it and apparently no one else could excepting of course Sean. Wherever he's a climbin' now, nobody knows.
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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This is quite an unbelievable achievement. Congratulations on a great effort and a wonderful TR!
The Taco abides...what's next...circle the globe on foot in a year?
haha
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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James -- I just feel my neck pulse for 6 or 10 seconds, so it's approximate. An HR profile for a day might be interesting, but I wouldn't find it all that useful.
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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MY GOODNESS! This is outstanding!
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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UN-believable! And beet juice? I'm going to the store right now!
Congrats. I would say that this time is unbeatable, ...certainly by me. I am barely out of bed struggling with coffee by the time the time the first 3 summits were reached! WOW.
TY
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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philo -- Going in, I could see that both Jack McBroom's and Hans Florine's records were soft. McBroom did too many legs, and Florine bivvied. Going near-sleepless for 2-2.5 days should be manageable, since RAAM riders do far worse. The CA driving logistics are also within my abilities.
Cave Dog's CO record is another matter: He had friends driving multiple support vehicles for 10 days, and his days are already pretty big (e.g. the Sunlight area 14ers plus the Wilson ones in a single day). Reading about what it did to his body also gives me pause.
Plus, the CA 14ers are more fun ;-).
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Any idea how many miles of hiking involved in this epic? Trying to wrap my mind around it
peace
Karl
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Sam R
climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Way to go, Sean!! Great to see the new record is held by a dirtbag- a Doctor Dirtbag no less!!
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jahil
Social climber
London, Paris, WV & CA
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Woah , thats something to aspire too!
steve
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Karl -- I have no idea on miles, since I don't have a program to figure it out, but I would guess around 30 for the first and 40 for the second. Roughly drawing the lines with an online tool, I can get a decent estimate of elevation gain/loss. The first leg has roughly 11,460 gain, the second leg 13,460.
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F10
Trad climber
Bishop
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Extremely impressive, nice job
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Karl -- I have no idea on miles, since I don't have a program to figure it out, but I would guess around 30 for the first and 40 for the second. Roughly drawing the lines with an online tool, I can get a decent estimate of elevation gain/loss. The first leg has roughly 11,460 gain, the second leg 13,460.
Haven't been following this too closely so apologies if I misunderstand, but the following program allows you to select a route on a map, and it then gives you the distance:
http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php
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pc
climber
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Fantastic!
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Double D
climber
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Impressive feet... no pun intended.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Oct 19, 2012 - 11:25am PT
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Sean is a beast! Bump!
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Oct 19, 2012 - 11:55am PT
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How old is Sean? I am so envious - not at the record, but just to have a fit body that can do that / or even a quarter of that. Or even 10%. Old age - which now seems to be coming on fast and furious - is a drag.
Congrats
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Oct 19, 2012 - 01:23pm PT
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I'm 35 now, so already well into my declining years.
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Oct 19, 2012 - 02:07pm PT
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Wow!
Sean, have you gone through periods of your life when you were not very physically active, and had to exercise a lot of will power and discipline to force yourself into activity until it became the default habitual thing to do? Or have you stayed on the higher end of the activity curve from early on and built your life around passion for the mountains?
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Oct 19, 2012 - 03:16pm PT
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I haven't always been very active, but started running/hiking while young. Moving into my car for a summer made it possible to do the more serious stuff. I suppose you could say my motives are a mixture of love for mountains, and interest in pushing myself to see what is possible. And probably a bit of good old-fashioned masochism.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Oct 19, 2012 - 05:41pm PT
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I'm 35 now, so already well into my declining years. Hardly. Check with Hans on that one.
Well done. I'm breathless just reading your account.
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rick d
climber
ol pueblo, az
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Oct 19, 2012 - 05:46pm PT
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Jack was a little over 40 when he did his thing.
with Jack, you MUST keep hands and feet away from his mouth as that little farker eats 15,000 calories a day.
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S.Leeper
Social climber
somewhere that doesnt have anything over 90'
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Oct 19, 2012 - 06:15pm PT
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what a total badass!!
Sean, do you also enjoy rock climbing?
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Oct 19, 2012 - 06:35pm PT
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Sean enjoys it all! Rock and ice too. I really think he can be on a level of Ueli Steck in a few years, if he works on his technical climbing more. His endurance is already amazing. He has a perfect body to get super good at technical climbing fast. I mean, he is already good- to do thunderbolt he soloed that 5.9 summit block (and I am sure it is not the sketchiest thing he has soloed. During sierra challenge 2010 I saw him solo a 5th class ridge that I was scared to look at. He scrambles low 5th as if it is 2nd class)!
In addition he just did a trail run of Evolution Lakes Loop in a record time. He is having quite a season!
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Oct 19, 2012 - 11:26pm PT
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@toadgas -- I prefer to think of it as "type II fun." There were no hallucinations, and quite a bit was actually enjoyable.
@S.Leeper -- Yes, though I most enjoy moving quickly (trail running, scrambling, soloing).
@Vitaliy -- I appreciate the confidence, and hope to improve my climbing by next summer, but Ueli solos harder than I expect to ever climb (7c/8a, i.e. 5.12c-13b). That's just scary.
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Stevee B
Trad climber
Oakland, CA
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Aug 22, 2013 - 08:33pm PT
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Bump for Radness!
Where do you live Sean? I have the eerie feeling I saw you at Berkeley IW a few weeks back.
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Double D
climber
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Aug 22, 2013 - 09:40pm PT
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Amazing... thanks for posting Peter!
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Aug 22, 2013 - 11:18pm PT
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I'm 36 now, and live nowhere in particular. Haven't been to the Bay in over a decade, though...
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MisterE
climber
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Aug 22, 2013 - 11:58pm PT
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Amazing effort!
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Aug 23, 2013 - 07:14pm PT
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Thanks, kunlun_shan. It's a bit more obscure than the 14ers, but the Kaweah thing was probably the hardest day I've done -- you have to be focused almost the whole time -- and I was extremely pleased to pull it off.
I'd like to do more in the Cascades next season, but I do have my eyes on a couple of Sierra traverses. Not the Minarets -- I don't have a death wish.
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CaNewt
Mountain climber
Davis, CA
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Aug 24, 2013 - 01:10pm PT
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Awesome effort!
I did Starlight this year completing the California 14'ers. Took me 40 years.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Wishes-He-Was-In-Arizona
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Aug 24, 2013 - 02:47pm PT
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Good job, Sean
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Aug 25, 2013 - 04:40am PT
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Beet juice
Yep.
Wow.
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overwatch
climber
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Jul 30, 2014 - 10:31pm PT
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Wish I could link the picture from my not so smart phone but he could be the brother of Sean Burch from ultimate survivor alaska, another ultra guy
Edit:
I guess I should say you since you posted...incredible effort
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