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HalHammer
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 21, 2018 - 03:12pm PT
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Figure this post is worth putting up on my old account because it's in the spirit of the more wild adventures I often got into when I was younger!
I wanted a project that was a little bigger and more "out there" this year (or at least out there for a while!). I recently attempted the California 14ers on foot/bike in a week. I managed to finish in 8 days, 8 hours, and 39 minutes for a new fastest known effort.
It was a personal epic and major adventure with some inevitable big swings in highs and lows and uncertainty and a few times going way deep past "hitting the wall".
I finally finished a write up this week after some quality chill time and settling back down at work. It's almost all here - probably about as close as you can get - good, bad, and at least the interesting stuff! Hope some of you guys enjoy!:
http://ryantetz.com/blog/2018/9/9/california-fourteeners-human-powered-bicycle-run-hike-climb-fastest-known-time
Cheers! - For Hans Florine and the first inspiration - #dohardthings
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johntp
Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
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Sep 21, 2018 - 03:34pm PT
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You know you have two posts on this on the forum? Delete one of them.
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HalHammer
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2018 - 03:38pm PT
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Thanks. This rural internet connection always does double submissions for odd things at times!
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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Sep 21, 2018 - 04:08pm PT
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Awesome Ryan. Congrats.
I just heard about this earlier from Jerry Dodrill.
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nah000
climber
now/here
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Sep 21, 2018 - 04:44pm PT
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dayum dude... i’m exhausted just reading about it.
seriously: congrats and thanks for writing it all up and sharing it here... a certifiably sick adventure to be sure.
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spectreman
Trad climber
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Sep 21, 2018 - 05:04pm PT
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Unbelievable! WTF??? Great job and great write up.
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COT
climber
Door Number 3
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Sep 21, 2018 - 05:16pm PT
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Nice Job Ryan!
Dave A
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Sep 21, 2018 - 05:28pm PT
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Proud send, Ryan!
Erik
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ClimbingOn
Trad climber
NY
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Sep 21, 2018 - 06:35pm PT
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Very, very proud! Well done!
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Sep 21, 2018 - 07:12pm PT
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That is pretty audacious. Even more gnarly considering how many of your calories came from sodas and fast food.
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john hansen
climber
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Sep 21, 2018 - 08:22pm PT
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Just read it.
Thanks for posting up.
EDIT I could see needing 15000 calories a day on a challenge like this.
I liked the photo of the full steak and egg breakfast with hash browns and a side order of bacon on the left and wheat toast with three packets of jelly on the right. Mmmm.
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Sep 21, 2018 - 10:04pm PT
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Two words: Wow! Ouch!
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Sep 21, 2018 - 10:16pm PT
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excellent job.
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telemon01
Trad climber
Montana
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Sep 22, 2018 - 04:39am PT
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Epic adventure- you're capacity for suffering is amazing!
Very impressive- good work and great story!
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Sep 22, 2018 - 08:21am PT
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Well done. Top grade adventure and nice write up as well.
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bajaandy
climber
Escondido, CA
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Sep 22, 2018 - 08:29am PT
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Ho-Lee Chit! Impressive just seems like such a lame word, but WOW! IMPRESSIVE!
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Inner City
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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Sep 22, 2018 - 10:36am PT
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Ho Man, that was an amazingly detailed description of such a challenging and unbelievable achievement. Way to go!
Thanks for the great story, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Dave R.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Sep 22, 2018 - 06:48pm PT
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Shazam! Nicely done
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Ryan Tetz
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Sep 22, 2018 - 08:32pm PT
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https://share.garmin.com/ryantetz
For the moment, still have a GPS log here from Garmin.^ Some is also on Strava under my name including the lost signal between Tyndall and Williamson. It was impossible to capture 100% on one device over such a long period of time with inevitable GPS bugs, memory failure, or batteries dieing repeatedly, but that's why I ran a back up 2nd device almost always.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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Sep 22, 2018 - 08:33pm PT
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WHAT?
DUDE!!!
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Inner City
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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Sep 22, 2018 - 10:14pm PT
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This challenge seems like something Leor Pantilat might crush eh?
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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Sep 23, 2018 - 10:16am PT
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Interesting point about shasta and the clear creek route. I met two brothers at the brewer creek lot over a decade ago going for the link up. Maybe less pedalling time from the east side of shasta.
Does it count if you ski shasta to speed up the time?
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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Sep 23, 2018 - 12:57pm PT
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Very good write-up. I was riveted.
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johntp
Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
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Sep 23, 2018 - 02:45pm PT
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Great effort. TFPU!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sep 23, 2018 - 02:56pm PT
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Whoa! Pretty badass effort!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 23, 2018 - 08:32pm PT
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Thanks for the Garmin Ryan
I now understand the scope of what you did which will make the reading more worth while
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Sep 24, 2018 - 11:51am PT
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Congrats on your record with peaks over 4,267.2 meters.
I'm more into peaks over 4,2713.882 meters. That's the magical number.
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bran_daid
Trad climber
santa monica, ca
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Sep 24, 2018 - 12:56pm PT
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amazing effort and write-up! thanks for posting and congrats!
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Sep 24, 2018 - 03:03pm PT
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Wow. Just wow.
Amazing effort. Great TR. Congrats!!
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
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Sep 24, 2018 - 06:14pm PT
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I saw a show in Boulder recently about a similar feat as a man did all 52 peaks over 14,000 in Colorado in a month's time. The difference was that he spent more time hiking and climbing and less time cycling than the Californian who had longer biking distances to go. Both feats are awe inspiring.
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland, CA
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Sep 24, 2018 - 06:56pm PT
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Read this last night before bed, sat in amazement thinking about it, woke up this morning thinking about it.
I told the story to the wife, whose first response was to wonder about what was in the photo that the work friends sent...? Funny how different details can grab different imaginations.
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Ryan Tetz
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Sep 25, 2018 - 05:29pm PT
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Le_Bruce I have some great coworkers around here in general!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Sep 25, 2018 - 08:06pm PT
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The final proof that...
...it don't have to be fun, to be fun.
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Marshall
climber
bay area
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Oct 16, 2018 - 09:29pm PT
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wow - what an amazing, amazing job. huge congrats. you are a true beast.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Oct 16, 2018 - 10:18pm PT
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great TR and an inspiration to do hard things indeed...
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Oct 17, 2018 - 07:03am PT
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Rad effort. Even getting busted by the fuzz! Nice work!
Scott
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grubs
climber
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Oct 19, 2018 - 10:37am PT
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Great write-up. I don't usually read trip write-ups that long (though I probably should!), but it was really well done and kept me interested the whole way through. I've done all 15 peaks but it took me a few years. I did do the southern 6 in a single trip, but even that took me 3 days and I felt pretty good about it at the time. Great effort!
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Sam Skrocke
Trad climber
Truckee
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Oct 19, 2018 - 02:09pm PT
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Very strong work Ryan I applaud your performance. I think that you may want to be careful about calling your trip self-supported or human powered. If you have use a vehicle to assist you in your efforts, i.e. dropping off caches and dropping bicycles off at trailheads then you should not claim human powered and if you are accepting help i.e. taking food from jeepers and having vehicle support to help with mechanical issues you should not claim self-supported. I like your ideas about how to deal with some of the logistics of pulling something like this off. It shows great ingenuity. Again job well done.
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