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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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