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Ranking the NH 4,000 Footers · Run Mountain Peaks

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  OK, welcome back to another episode of Run Mountain Peaks.
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  I think this is the coldest weather that I've recorded in
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  thus far. So I'm hoping my equipment
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  stands the test of the weather we get this all recorded.
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  But we have, I have a fun one today.
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  I'm excited to do this. The first topic I'm going to be
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  ranking the 4000 footers, like which ones are my favorite?
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  We're going to go from last to 1st.
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  There's going to be lots of probably controversy.
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  There's going to be lots of, I mean, I have a few that I don't
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  think are going to be normal picks, but I think it's going to
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  be fun to do. It's going to be a little
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  chaotic, but we're going to go through all of them.
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  We'll do it by heights and not peaks.
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  So I don't kind of talk about the 48 individual.
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  I think there's 29 hikes that I'm going to rank.
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  So we'll do that. And yeah, I think it'll be a fun
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  one to do. Talk about each of the peaks.
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  Honestly, I love all the all the peaks except for one hike.
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  I will repeatedly and forever, maybe not forever talk smack
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  about and say that I actually don't like these peaks.
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  So I'm in. I think I'm going to do last the
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  first. So you're just going to get this
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  immediately. My least favorite peaks, but
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  there's only one set of mountains that I don't like.
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  The rest of them I, I, I really do enjoy.
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  So it's going to be hard to rank, you know, which ones are
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  at the low lowest totem pole, but I'm kind of telling them,
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  hey, you know, chin up. I I do like hiking you and I'm
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  going to keep getting out on you, but you didn't need to make
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  the cut like some of the big ones.
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  So we're going to do that. And then the ultra scene racing,
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  winter racing is kicking up this weekend and next weekend.
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  So we have a a few races I want to preview some big races, some
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  exciting races to follow, some long races in the cold and some
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  sluggers are are going out there and doing these races.
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  So next weekend it's going to be the last skier standing White
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  Mountain Ski Company every hour on the hour kind of backyard
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  event. Next weekend we have the Tark
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  Frozen Yeti race, which is a 30 hour and a 15 mile.
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  So out there in the cold and then the Frozen Heart 900 in
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  Connecticut don't know much about it, but I'll give you a
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  little bit of info a little preview on that didn't know much
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  now I deal I'll fill you guys in and then right now this weekend,
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  the last Nordic skier standing also by White Mountain ski
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  companies going on. We'll talk about that quick.
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  This one was on ultra sign up, but I, I got AI looked at the
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  tracker because they're currently going.
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  So I'll, I'll fill in what's going on there and then if it
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  ends before Sunday, maybe I'll maybe I'll add this to the end
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  and, and put the results in this week.
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  So those are the topics today. I'm excited to dive into it.
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  Before we get into ranking the 4000 footers, we're going to do
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  a 62nd training talk training tip for you.
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  I've talked about hillstrides before.
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  Lots of people, I feel like in the last couple years have been
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  talking about hillstrides. Everyone should be doing their
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  hillstrides, no matter if you're a short distance runner, an
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  ultra runner, they're very, very good to do.
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  They increase your power output, they increase your strength,
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  your turnover. If you're used to running a lot
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  of slow miles, mix these in and they'll give you a little bit of
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  speed boost without like destroying your legs like a
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  speed workout would. So they're lower risk than hard
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  speed workouts and you get some of the speed benefits of them.
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  And my 1 tip is they they usually say to do 20 to 30
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  seconds reps, 6 to 8, No, yeah, 20 to 30 seconds per Rep and
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  then do 6 to 8 reps at the end of like an easy run or a
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  moderate run. Do that two or three times a
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  week. And then what I like to do is
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  once a week at least do them at the end of your long run,
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  because sometimes if you do a 234 hour long run, your legs are
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  very tired. Everyone knows what that feels
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  like at the end of your run. And I've noticed that if I do
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  strides at the end of a long run when I'm really tired, it almost
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  like wakes my legs back up and says like, hey, you can still
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  run fast, you can still be strong.
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  Don't go to bed yet. And I think I've done this
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  before, some of my ulcers, and I think it does really help.
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  So do your hill strides and try them at the end of your long
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  run. I think they will.
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  They will help you out. And if you haven't been doing
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  them, you're going to probably get quick gains from doing them.
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  So it's something good to try. If you have any questions about
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  the Hill Strides, send me an e-mail,
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  andrew@runmountainpeaks.com. And also, I just uploaded a full
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  document of what I prioritize in training nutrition recovery, a
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  free downloadable PDF. It's on my website,
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  runmountainpeaks.com. If you want it, go in there and
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  download it. Right now I have it set up.
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  You have to put in your billing address, although it doesn't ask
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  you for a card or anything else or any money, it's free.
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  So you you might go on there and it might ask you for your
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  address. I'm not going to do anything
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  with your address. I won't look at your address.
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  Put in your address and then it just gives it to you.
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  I'm going to try to set it up where you don't need to put in
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  the address and you don't need to check out.
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  But I don't know if I will get to it this weekend.
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  I'm a runner, not a tech developer.
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  So, but anyway, if you want that free guide, just some of the
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  things that I think about and prioritize in my own training
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  coaching, go down there and download it, give it a whirls.
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  Tell me what you think of it. OK, now getting into the topics
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  for today. So we're going to do Oh, no, I,
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  I OK, we'll do 1 little quick topic before we do the ranking,
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  the 4000 footers. I'm going to make you wake one
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  more quick minute. I, I have had down here J.
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  Cole hype as I before a lot of my speed workouts and before my
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  ultra marathons. I love listening to J.
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  Cole hype up music. It's always offseason.
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  The album, those songs, it just gets me fired up.
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  So like if I'm going to do a speed workout and get ready, put
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  my stuff on, I'm rocking that in the background.
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  I've noticed that for these cold podcasts, I've been putting that
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  on in the background as I'm layering up to go outside.
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  And so I need a little bit of J. Cole hype today.
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  And he's dropping a new album February 6th, I think, so who
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  knows if it will be good. But yeah, that was just the J
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  I'm. I just think it's funny, like
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  these podcasts in the winter are getting like on the level of
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  speed workout needing to pump me up to get out here.
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  But I mean, obviously I love doing them.
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  But OK, that was AJ Cole hype. And now we're going to get into
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  the topics today. So ranking the 4000 footers.
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  I got the whole list here. Like I said, there's a few
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  ground rules. So we'll go through the ground
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  rules to start, because like I said, I'm not going to rank them
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  48 to one. I'm going to group them in terms
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  of how most people hike them. So like the most efficient way
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  to hike these peaks, if you're doing lists, doing the grid or
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  just getting your 48 done, I'm going to link them together like
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  that. And there's there's some of them
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  that are hard, like which ones do you actually link together?
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  So as we get to them, I'll just talk about my rationale, but
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  that's how we're going to do it. So it's going to be 29 total
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  hikes and we're going to try to have no bias for location or
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  drive time. So just because you live in one
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  area and it takes you 3 hours to get to 1 in an hour and a half
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  to get to the other, we're not going to hold that against peaks
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  that are just, you know, but were born a little bit north or
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  a little bit whatever. So we're going to try not to
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  hold that against them. And then we're not they're not
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  going to have bias for how difficult the hike is.
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  So obviously some of these hikes are super short and some of
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  these hypes hikes are really long.
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  So if I'm looking for a long day, I'm not going to give
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  negative points to a shorter hike.
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  And if I'm looking for a short day, I'm not going to give
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  extra. You know, if I'm tired, don't
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  want to do a long day, I'm not going to think, oh, I don't want
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  to do this because it's long. It's strictly going to be what
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  mountains do I like to be on the most?
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  Like which which ones do I enjoy the most?
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  So it's not like best views. It's just which ones do I like
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  the most? I'm most hyped up to be driving
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  to go do that's how we're going to do it.
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  And I was thinking about this like, should I assume there are
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  people on the trail or no? Because I mean, that is like a
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  factor on, you know, if you're getting out on a weekend, like
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  if you see a lot of people that does kind of play into it.
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  I'm going to basically go mostly no, I'm going to kind of treat
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  it as like if I'm going up on a weekday, it's not going to be
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  bothersome. Like there's not going to be any
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  like Congo lines on these trails while I'm picturing them.
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  So that's not going to the most popular peaks aren't going to
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  get negative points for being just crazy busy.
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  So those are the ground rules and how let's dive into it.
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  So First off, I said I there's only one set of peaks that I
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  dislike. I've I think it's just something
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  against a piece. I don't know, maybe, maybe there
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  are. I just think I've never had good
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  days on them. I don't think they're they have
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  any outlying great qualities to them, although there's one, but
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  I've just had crappy times on them.
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  I maybe done them 678 times. So I've been on on them a lot.
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  It is Tom Field and Willie, my last least favorite peaks.
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  Like I said, Mount Avalon. You usually tag Avalon when
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  you're doing it, which is like awesome views into the Prezis.
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  So that has something going for it.
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  I mean, it's kind of unique woods, but every time I'm on
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  those peaks it's either cold winter, a ton of snow.
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  That Ridge is always longer than you think.
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  I've done some postal missions. I've done, I fell in spruce
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  traps. I've lost things on the Ridge.
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  I've been there in rain, I've been there in clouds.
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  I've never had any good weather on them, which is partly on me,
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  but also if I've been there 678 times, I don't know the exact
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  number. And you've never done it for me.
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  I don't know. So those are my least favorite
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  peaks. I will openly say that I don't
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  like those peaks. And those are the only peaks in
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  the Whites that I actually think that I dislike.
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  And so that is the bottom of my list for me.
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  I don't know. I don't know if you actually
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  people really like that hike. It's it's actually a good hike
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  in terms of getting three peaks done.
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  If you're gritting like what is that?
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  Is that .5% of the grid or whatever, like you actually, or
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  if you're doing the 48, that's three of the 48 six percent of
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  the the the list. It's it's actually kind of nice.
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  They're they're nearby, but I just hate them.
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  So they're last on my list. Sorry, not sorry from here.
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  I like all of the peaks, but there has to be a 29.
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  Oh, we have to pause here. Hi there.
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  How's it going? OK, dog Walker, that was I.
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  I do have to cut that out. There's a longer pause.
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  OK, so that was 30. Oh, was that thirty?
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  OK, so I lied to you guys. It's actually 30 hikes.
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  Oh yeah. I split one up at the last
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  minute. So there's 30 hikes.
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  That's #30 sorry, not sorry. Next up again.
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  So I like this peak. I like going out on it, but
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  someone has to be 29. It is hail and I'll be honest,
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  hail. When I first did this list, hail
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  was a couple spots up. Hail was a couple spots up
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  because every time I go on hail, I think I just like it.
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  There's no views. It's a short, like what is it, 4
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  miles? It's a very quick one to do.
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  It's kind of like a Tecumseh. It's short, but the trail's
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  nice. I think I just get good vibes
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  down low. I get good vibes.
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  I always see like moose tracks or deer tracks.
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  There's a little water crossing. You got that side hill 1 winter
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  I was chest deep in that side hill.
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  If the if the snow depth gets really deep at the end of the
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  winter you can't see above the trees or you used to be able to.
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  It's a nice little peek but aside from me, just like them
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  going out on it, it doesn't really have much going for it.
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  It's got a road walk in the winter which is usually negative
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  points. I don't hate a road walk but I
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  don't love a road walk. So hail is 29.
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  Sorry, but had to be had to be in there.
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  Next up we're going to do Zealand.
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  So sometimes you link these together.
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  Halen Zealand, Zealand again, it doesn't have anything crazy good
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  going for it. You got Zealand Hut.
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  A lot of people would go to Zealand Hut.
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  If you do AZ bonds, it's a great it's a great one to do on Z
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  bonds. Z Cliff is really a really nice
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  outlook on it, but there's some bog bridges.
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  It's kind of nice, you get a little bit of open terrain, but
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  I don't know, it just it just, it doesn't really hit for me too
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  hard. And I think a lot of people
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  maybe, maybe would agree with this one.
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  Zealand being a little bit low on the list.
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  But yeah, I think Z Cliff having Z Cliff put it above Hale, if
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  didn't have Z Cliff below Hale. Zealand is number 28 #27 is
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  Gailhead. Gailhead, What are you doing up
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  there, buddy? What are you doing up here?
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  And I actually, no, I don't feel bad about this one.
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  Galehead. I actually love the view from
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  the Hut. I like being, this is one thing
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  I will talk about in this list. I like being in a view.
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  I like kind of having a Ridge or mountain kind of above me right
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  in your face. And it has a nice view at, at,
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  at the Hut at Galehead Hut. You have a Hut if you want food
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  or whatever, it's kind of nice. But if you're doing a Pemi, an
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  extended Pemi, you're tagging all the peaks.
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  You're like, why am I going out here?
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  If you're doing any, honestly, any sort of little thing on my
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  last year Dodge, I had to tag it too.
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  I'm like, why am I going to this little peak?
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  There's no view at the top. It's a little bit longer than
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  you always think to get to it. Like I don't know if it's a
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  quarter mile in my head it's always like .1, but it's like
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  no, it's actually like a quarter mile.
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  So, yeah, so GAIL hits 27, but the approach, like most people
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  come from Gale River Road or along the Gale River Trail,
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  whatever that's called, I like it.
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  It's gradual grade. Cats get gets a little steep
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  before you get up to the Hut. It's kind of like nice, like
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  rainforesty, I don't know, like a grainy.
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  It's got a nice feel to it, the trail, but I just don't love
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  that it's there. I don't always love tagging
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  Galehead, and I think some people would agree with me.
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  So Galehead is 27. Next up, 26.
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  AL's Head. I think I've, I've talked about
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  Alice said on the podcast maybe before or maybe it's a couple of
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  little jokes about, Alice said. I have mixed, I've had mixed
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  reviews on AL's head. This is one that I've been to a
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  handful of times. A few times it's been it's been
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  bad. I didn't like it.
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  A few times it's been good. And I think AL's head is 1 it's,
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  you know, 8 miles out and back. Most of it's flat.
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  So it's just kind of like a regular trail.
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  Like there's lots of flatter, lower elevation trails that you
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  could go on. It's got lots of water crossing,
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  so it always makes it could be annoying in the spring.
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  It obviously doesn't have a view.
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  It's in the middle of nowhere, which honestly kind of gives it
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  points. You're feeling like you're out
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  in the middle of nowhere. Like, what are we doing out here
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  is kind of like a a fun thing. But unless you're having a bad
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  day that, you know, like this is stupid.
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  The black pawn bushwhack makes it easier.
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  So it's a lot shorter if you go that way.
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  But yeah, just nothing redeeming about AL's head.
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  I mean, the black pawn, the view up to the bonds through the
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  black pawn's always nice. If you hit it in the morning a
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  little, you know, some colors in the sky, it's good.
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  But yeah, I'm not a huge fan. I'm not, I'm not a a hater per
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  SE. I'm not the world's biggest
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  hater, but I'm not the biggest fan of AL's Head and, and yeah,
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  what what what's saying about that?
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  One of my favorite jokes too, is on the grid spreadsheet, if you
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  go to like maybe 5 or 6, the five or fifth or sixth grid
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  sheet, it says you really want to hike ALSAID 60 times.
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  That's kind of how I feel about Alsaid.
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  But it's a unique, it's one of the longer ones you get out
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  there. So I, I bumped it up on the
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  list. It's not one of the last, last
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  ones. So that's 26, 25.
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  This is going to be controversial and my phone's on.
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  I might have to take this in two, two records, but that's
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  fine. This is going to be
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  controversial, but I'm going with the Osceolas.
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  Oh, screams and shouts, screams and shouts.
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  How come the Osceolas? Everyone loves the Osceolas.
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  I like the Osceolas, but I will say the view from Osceola, I
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  think people love it. It's one of like the easier,
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  nicer views and hikes that people do at the beginning.
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  I just don't, I don't love the view for some reason.
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  It's, it's a great view, but it's not like wow, jaw-dropping
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  in between the peaks is always just a little bit annoying.
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  I don't, I mean, I don't know why I feel that way.
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  And I've done Osceola's maybe 12/13/14 times.
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  Like I've done them a ton with all the Jigger Johnson races and
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  all the things going up and over them.
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  I've seen them in good stages, bad stages, winter, cold, warm,
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  you name it. And they just don't do it for
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  me. I mean, E Osceola is a good
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  climb. You get some good views out
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  there. You get a nice view across the
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  the Ridge, but it doesn't do it for me.
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  The trail up to Osceola from Tripoli is so eroded, like it's
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  so rocky just because so many people hike it.
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  That's always kind of annoying. I shouldn't be higher because
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  I've been your Johnson races. It's kind of like in, I don't
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  know, but it's not so, so it hit 25 on the list for me, 24, a
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  neighbor, one nearby. We're going to go with the
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  Hancocks. I think this is one that a lot
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  of people would say is should be lower or definitely should be
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  lower than Osceola, but I've always enjoyed the Hancocks.
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  I think you actually get good views.
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  You get nice views up to that Arrow slide or whatever it's
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  called. N Hancock, you get good views.
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  S Hancock, you can stay out to Carrigan.
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  You get good views. It's kind of a flat, you know,
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  also kind of a getting out there kind of feel.
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  You get out in the middle of nowhere.
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  You get a little inclined, you get big steep ascent descents.
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  The loop is is pretty quick. It's always always goes quicker
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  than I think it will go. So I just like the Hancocks.
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  So that that's why it bumped up on the list for me to 24.
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  I always enjoy getting on the Hancocks.
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  I've done them a bunch, 8-9, maybe 10 times.
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  And it's just, it's just been a good friend of mine.
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  So they have so they both go up there and my, I mean my, my, my,
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  my, my parents, some of my family watches this now.
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  Like I can't make any jokes about the Hancocks. 2323 is I
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  have Wombach, 23 is Wombach, Wambach is 1 for me.
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  I always have good days on Wambach.
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  Does it have a ton of redeeming qualities?
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  It has good views out to the Prezis that you know those
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  couple views, you know the one right past the summit and then
• 19:27
  the one at that little chimney Hut thing or whatever.
• 19:30
  It's steep right at the go. It's kind of a good mix of
• 19:32
  woods. It's kind of open, hardwoodsy
• 19:34
  and then you get up to the the thicker stuff.
• 19:38
  It's just got a good vibe, but it doesn't have a ton ton going
• 19:40
  for it. But I I really just enjoy every
• 19:43
  time I'm out there. You can RIP up and you can RIP
• 19:45
  down it. I ran that on the Kilkenny Ridge
• 19:48
  race out and back. So wound back is 23 for me.
• 19:52
  Shout out solid, solid peak. I like it.
• 19:55
  Next up, 22 the twins. I think this one may maybe get a
• 20:01
  couple gasps. The twins.
• 20:02
  There's such good views. Big piece, middle of the Pemi.
• 20:05
  I don't know. Yeah, this is it's going to get
• 20:08
  tough. That's the thing here.
• 20:09
  It's going to get really tough. And I have to list.
• 20:13
  I have to list them, put them somewhere.
• 20:16
  And for me, they, they fell here.
• 20:18
  I like the approach from Gale River or what?
• 20:22
  Or not Gale River, the north. I don't even know what that
• 20:26
  river's called Twin River, whatever you know, I'm talking
• 20:28
  about, or maybe you don't. There's a lot of people that
• 20:31
  actually are not from the northeast.
• 20:35
  Two percent, 2 1/2 percent are like 3% of listener listeners
• 20:40
  are from Australia or listener is from Australia.
• 20:44
  That means like a couple people have listened to every episode
• 20:47
  in Australia. I don't know who you are, but
• 20:50
  shout out And if you don't, if you're for some reason from
• 20:53
  there and you just don't know about the 4000 footers and you
• 20:56
  have no idea what I'm talking about, you probably aren't
• 20:58
  listening to this anymore. But I'm sorry, this is a 4000
• 21:01
  footer only podcast today. But the twins, if you do them
• 21:06
  from the other way, you get the twin way from the Hut and you're
• 21:09
  kind of just kneel gear kneel near Galehead, which just gives
• 21:13
  me not the best vibes sometimes. That was that was me.
• 21:18
  That was just that was uncalled for, but I'll I'll keep it.
• 21:21
  That was mean, but I don't know. The twins are just not one.
• 21:24
  I rolled my ankle good on the twins once a couple years ago
• 21:27
  and that always stuck in my brain.
• 21:30
  Great views. I had to stick them somewhere.
• 21:33
  So 21 is where is where they they got placed.
• 21:38
  Oh no 22, sorry, 23 or no, no, no.
• 21:42
  Oh my gosh, now I'm messing up my numbers.
• 21:44
  Next on the list 21. I think people are like where?
• 21:48
  Where are these? Did he forget about these piece?
• 21:49
  What do we do? How did this the Carters?
• 21:52
  I think the Carters get a lot of heat.
• 21:55
  Nobody likes the Carters. Like we talked about this last
• 21:58
  week, some of the least grid finished peaks or you finish
• 22:02
  your grid on the peaks. I shout out Carter Dome.
• 22:04
  I finished my 48 on Carter Dome. I actually like Carter Dome.
• 22:08
  I think the climb up to Carter Dome is cool.
• 22:10
  You go to the the Hut down there, the little lake you go
• 22:13
  up, you get. If you go to mount height, you
• 22:15
  get good views and it's not like you had no views on the Carters
• 22:19
  as you're going across the Ridge, obviously.
• 22:22
  What is it? Middle Carter?
• 22:23
  Is that the one you get views on?
• 22:26
  I've only been there a few times too.
• 22:28
  So these are not as in my ballpark.
• 22:30
  But you do get views across to the presidential range, which I
• 22:34
  think I ranked some peaks higher because I just love, I love the
• 22:38
  views and the Prezis obviously, but then the views to the
• 22:42
  Prezis, like the closest views to the Prezis are nice to me
• 22:46
  too. So yeah.
• 22:47
  And I've always had good days on the Carters.
• 22:49
  I think I've been with good people when I've went and like
• 22:52
  that. Shouldn't, Andrew, that
• 22:53
  shouldn't affect your ranking of the peaks, who you went with.
• 22:57
  It does. You know, it's how I feel about
• 22:59
  the peaks. It's the one that I want to go
• 23:01
  to. So again, everyone may have
• 23:03
  their own list, but this is my list and it's correct.
• 23:07
  No, it's not, But OK, all right, The phone is dying here rapidly,
• 23:11
  and I didn't bring the extra charger, but we're going to keep
• 23:13
  going, powering through here. OK, I remember the next two.
• 23:17
  Next up #20 is Tecumseh. This is one that probably could
• 23:22
  have got lower on the list for some people.
• 23:23
  But again, I've always had good days on Tecumseh.
• 23:28
  It's a closer one from your yes, but it's a, it's a, it's got a
• 23:32
  great view of Waterville Valley. I like the view out to the
• 23:34
  Osceolas. It's nice quick.
• 23:37
  It just, I don't know, it always is there for me.
• 23:39
  I feel like it's a peak that is going to be there for me if I
• 23:42
  got it need to go on a bad weather day.
• 23:44
  I just feel like you always know what you're going to get and it
• 23:47
  always just delivers kind of like going back to my top
• 23:50
  favorite fruits. It's kind of like a banana.
• 23:53
  It's got no wow factor, but it's it's the peak I've been on the
• 23:56
  most. It's the one that I can I know
• 23:58
  what I'm going to get every day and it's the one I've done the
• 24:02
  most. I think I've done it at least 15
• 24:03
  times, maybe closer to 20. And and I like it go from the
• 24:08
  front. The backside is awesome from
• 24:10
  triple I Rd. way quieter. That was my first 4000 footer
• 24:15
  ever actually from triple I Rd. So yeah, I, I, I like it.
• 24:20
  I like it. So that's what we got for 20.
• 24:25
  Shout out Tecumseh and the view's great. 4001 feet.
• 24:29
  If the seas. This is another grid grid thing.
• 24:31
  If the seas, what does he say? If the seas are to rise by
• 24:36
  whatever, 20-30, this may not be a 4000 further anymore.
• 24:40
  That's on one of the grid spreadsheets as well.
• 24:43
  OK, Next up we have Da Da Da da Mariah, number 19.
• 24:50
  I think Mariah, it's kind of like a Carter's.
• 24:53
  I think it got higher on my list than some people would have put
• 24:56
  on their list. But like I said, I like the
• 24:59
  Prezi smack dab in your face on some of the fall summits.
• 25:02
  You get some good views at the top.
• 25:04
  You get great views. It's a longer hike, but I've
• 25:08
  just always had good days on it. This is another one I've only
• 25:12
  done a few times, few 43 few four times, but I, I just had
• 25:17
  good days. It's got a good mix of terrain
• 25:20
  and, and it made it up on the list for me.
• 25:23
  So get mad at me if you want, but I don't care.
• 25:25
  Mariah, shout out #18 We're going with Tri pyramids.
• 25:33
  I think this may, this may turn some heads.
• 25:35
  What there's some on the list that you haven't said Tri
• 25:37
  pyramids #18 I like to try pyramids.
• 25:40
  I think the north side is awesome, super fun, great views,
• 25:43
  like amazing views. The South side, less fun, but
• 25:47
  also less views. But also it's it's cool.
• 25:50
  It's nice if you go from Pine Bend.
• 25:54
  I've done done pine Bend a million times.
• 25:56
  That's a good way to do it in the winter.
• 25:59
  It's just it's a solid peak. I really like it, but I think
• 26:02
  for the views I get, it's a terrifying 25.
• 26:05
  It's very, very popular. It's just, I don't know, I think
• 26:09
  maybe a little bit overrated, maybe sometimes.
• 26:11
  Oh my God, I can't believe you said that.
• 26:12
  Have you ever been on the slide, Andrew?
• 26:14
  I've been on the slide. Have you been on the slide?
• 26:15
  I think I did the slide like 3 times this year and it is great
• 26:19
  views, but I don't know. I don't know what else to say
• 26:22
  guys. I have an 18th on my list.
• 26:24
  I don't, I don't know. It's not above and beyond for
• 26:26
  me. I've had good days.
• 26:28
  I think I've had solid days, but I haven't had the greatest of
• 26:31
  days. I've done a bunch too, but I
• 26:35
  don't know, for whatever reason this one is not super high on
• 26:37
  the list for me, so it is what it is.
• 26:40
  Next up, 17 Cabot. Oh, this one got sneaky high up
• 26:45
  there. I like Cabot again, another one
• 26:48
  I've always had good days on. It's a good mix of woods.
• 26:51
  You feel like you're in the middle of nowhere, which you
• 26:53
  are. It's not really a ton of good
• 26:56
  views. This is maybe maybe the one that
• 26:58
  snuck up the highest as far as what the odds were before this
• 27:02
  list. I just love going up there.
• 27:05
  I think the drive down there's cool.
• 27:06
  I like looking at the fish before and after my hikes and
• 27:10
  the little fish canal there or the fish hatchery.
• 27:14
  It's good. It's a cool peak.
• 27:16
  It feels moosey. You see moose tracks up there.
• 27:19
  I've never seen a moose up there.
• 27:21
  You get the little cabin, which I I thought I loved the cabin.
• 27:25
  I you know, the I don't know. I don't know why I brought up
• 27:27
  the cabin. Well, I'm just talking about the
• 27:28
  hike. The cabin, I guess is kind of
• 27:30
  cool. I've never been in it or stayed
• 27:31
  in it. One of my buddies told me he
• 27:33
  stayed in. I'm like, Oh gosh, that is I
• 27:35
  know. I think people do stay in it,
• 27:37
  but it looks rundown and it looks like they're just be else
• 27:40
  pooping there or something. But Cabot's cool, Cabot's cool.
• 27:45
  I like it. I've I just love going out on on
• 27:47
  Cabot and if I lived closer, I think this almost got an Ant a
• 27:51
  reverse. What is that called?
• 27:54
  Reverse psychology. You know, it's so far away that
• 27:58
  I was like, I don't want to dock points for being far away.
• 28:00
  But then it slipped up too much. Cabot #17 #16 we have Garfield.
• 28:08
  This is another one, some of people's favorite one.
• 28:10
  Favorite ones. As far as the view, it's a great
• 28:13
  view. Middle of the penny.
• 28:14
  AL's head in your face. Franconia Ridge, the twins.
• 28:18
  I'm halfway on my Pemi loop. Garfield's a great, a great
• 28:21
  hike. Garfield Ridge Trail a little
• 28:25
  bit always slower than you think, little rocky little up
• 28:27
  and down the the Garfield approach from the road is, is
• 28:32
  very gentle, you know, 4 1/2 five miles easy grade, very
• 28:36
  runnable. So that's kind of smooth.
• 28:39
  So it has a lot of good things going for it.
• 28:40
  It it's got a spring, it saves you if you got water.
• 28:43
  And actually when I was doing the wash Dodge, I jumped the
• 28:46
  deer. I saw a deer at almost that at
• 28:49
  near the summit on Garfield, which is kind of cool.
• 28:53
  I don't know. I just throw that fact in, which
• 28:54
  obviously should make me like it more, but I don't.
• 28:57
  It didn't get in the IT didn't crack the top 10 for me, didn't
• 29:00
  crack the top 10 for me. I think if it had more views
• 29:02
  along the way, maybe get there. I mean, I like that kind of
• 29:06
  scramble at the end. I think I've slipped the good
• 29:09
  ways down that once in the winter on the ice.
• 29:11
  It's cool. It's got the the Hut up there.
• 29:13
  It's always freezing up there. Every time I go up there, I feel
• 29:15
  like I'm just freezing air. It's super windy.
• 29:20
  Yeah. I love Garfield, but it's just
• 29:21
  not it doesn't it doesn't scream top 10 to me, but it's close.
• 29:25
  So we put at 16 that was Garfield 15 is going to be white
• 29:31
  face and pass a Conway. This is 1.
• 29:36
  It's southern whites. It kind of feels like you're in
• 29:38
  a different zone of the way to when you're driving to it.
• 29:41
  There's only a few for me where I kind of go through the lake 1
• 29:44
  of Saukee area, the lakes region in New Hampshire, and that's
• 29:49
  kind of like a nice ride. It kind of like mixes up the
• 29:51
  just driving a 93 for, you know, your entire drive.
• 29:54
  So that's kind of like nice. It's in a different area.
• 29:57
  It feels a little bit quieter out there.
• 29:59
  And the peaks itself, I mean the blueberry ledges, right, the the
• 30:03
  the ledges up up to whiteface are the good views.
• 30:09
  It's not like stunner mountains in your face, but it's good
• 30:12
  Southern whites, kind of rural New Hampshire views.
• 30:16
  You get a little scramble, Little Rock climbing going up
• 30:18
  the whiteface. I've always had a good time
• 30:21
  whiteface to pass a Conway. It always goes quicker than I
• 30:23
  think, as opposed to like, like I was saying, Tom feel Willy,
• 30:26
  that Ridge goes slower than I think pass a Conway.
• 30:29
  You get you pop out to the end there.
• 30:31
  You get a good view out kind of to more of the the Prezis and
• 30:34
  the northern whites and you get that barn out and you always run
• 30:39
  by that that house on the way out.
• 30:41
  You're like, why? I wonder how many people just
• 30:42
  walk by this house hiking every time and they just don't care.
• 30:47
  I always think that I'm sure everybody does, but it's just a
• 30:49
  solid, solid hike. I've always enjoyed it.
• 30:52
  This is kind of like a cavity. Maybe it slipped up a little
• 30:56
  bit, but I just I just like getting out on it.
• 30:58
  I've always had good days. So that was 1514 isolation.
• 31:05
  Some people don't like isolation.
• 31:07
  Some people don't like going up to isolation.
• 31:09
  But I think isolation view and obviously that trail is super
• 31:13
  wet and can be very, very annoying, but I think the view,
• 31:17
  it's just Washington and your face right there.
• 31:21
  It's good view. All the southern Prezis is right
• 31:24
  there. It's an awesome view.
• 31:26
  I've had really good winter days and winter views on that peak.
• 31:29
  And I I like from Glenn Boulder, I'm going to give it some
• 31:33
  credit. If you go Glenn Boulder, which
• 31:34
  is you kind of get a touch of the Prezis, which I think pulled
• 31:37
  this hike up. And so and so isolation gets,
• 31:42
  gets #14 it's just like it's a good peak.
• 31:45
  It's kind of for me again, it's a longer one to slip up.
• 31:48
  I'm, I'm, I'm thinking, you know, looking at the groupings,
• 31:52
  do I let you know? It's a lot of the kind of near
• 31:54
  the Prezis ones got up higher. They outperform maybe the
• 31:58
  Lincoln or Southern Whites 4000 footers.
• 32:01
  But I think, I think that is obviously one of the big draws
• 32:04
  for these peaks, like the White Mountains, which peaks are the
• 32:08
  whitest, the longest above tree line, It's the Prezis.
• 32:12
  So I think if you're near the Prezis, you just kind of got
• 32:14
  pulled up. You kind of got pulled up a
• 32:16
  little bit. Next up #13 the Kinsman's.
• 32:21
  Love the Kinsman's. I've been on the Kinsman's a
• 32:24
  bunch from the front, Fish and Jimmy.
• 32:26
  From the back you go Bald Peak. Bald Peak is awesome.
• 32:30
  That's another one Ridge in your face.
• 32:32
  Kinsman's are great. You get the view to Franconia
• 32:35
  Ridge. If you go fishing, Jimmy, you
• 32:37
  get Lonesome Lake, which is great.
• 32:41
  The parking in the summer at the Franconia Notch is horrible, but
• 32:44
  we're not going to hold that against anybody.
• 32:46
  One time I actually took the trim there.
• 32:48
  I felt like a a nub getting on that trim.
• 32:52
  No, if you've taken the tram, Nah, Nah.
• 32:55
  If you're taking the tram, it's fine.
• 32:56
  It's fun. It's fun.
• 32:58
  But yeah, I just. Yeah.
• 32:59
  Anyhow, we're not going to hold against them.
• 33:01
  But the Kinsman's are great. I just think the kinsman's are
• 33:03
  great. And again, we'll go back to the
• 33:05
  last episode, the episode before.
• 33:07
  How has nobody, how has two people finished the grid on
• 33:11
  North Kinsman and not finished the grid on South Kinsman?
• 33:14
  I don't understand, but that's what I have to say about the
• 33:18
  kinsman's and the kinsman's from the other way.
• 33:20
  Which Kinsman Ridge trail is that the entire trail Elto?
• 33:23
  What is it three O 2 or whatever?
• 33:26
  Is that the highway? I don't even know, like Mount
• 33:28
  Wolf and the the little camp campsite back there for what's
• 33:32
  called thought my head. That's a nice little trail 2
• 33:35
  very out out. You know, I did that full, full
• 33:38
  Kinsman Ridge show on the lodge to dodge.
• 33:40
  It's it's very much out there, but it's yeah, it's remote
• 33:42
  feeling. It's it's the AT.
• 33:44
  So it's got kind of a good vibe to it.
• 33:46
  The climb up to the Kinsman's from that side is kind of cool,
• 33:49
  kind of rugged. So yeah, Kinsman's 13 #12 is
• 33:54
  going to be Tannen right next to the Kinsman's.
• 33:58
  I think, you know, the feel of it, it just kind of mix ends.
• 34:01
  This is 1 where you almost could link the cannon with the
• 34:03
  Kinsman's hike, but I don't think that would be totally,
• 34:07
  Yeah, totally, you know, accurate, I think leveling all
• 34:11
  these hikes together. But Canon.
• 34:13
  Yeah. Another one that I just think is
• 34:14
  very, very good. Good view.
• 34:17
  It's a shorter one, but it's kind of like a Tecumseh.
• 34:20
  It's kind of punchy. You know what you're going to
• 34:22
  get. You can do it a couple different
• 34:24
  ways. So you can come from, you know,
• 34:25
  Lonesome Lake or that direction, the Frank Notch, or you can go
• 34:30
  kind of the ski slope side up that little windy trail.
• 34:33
  What is that? The is that I think that is the
• 34:35
  Kidsman Ridge Trail. It's got the ski slopes, which
• 34:38
  is always kind of nice. Some people like ski slope
• 34:41
  views, some people don't. I like it 'cause it kind of
• 34:43
  mixes it up. You know, you get the slopes
• 34:45
  right there. The the, the tower at the top
• 34:49
  almost takes a little bit away from me, a little bit away from
• 34:53
  it for me. Holy guacamole.
• 34:57
  I love guac. But you get up there and you get
• 35:01
  really good views. It kind of puts you above the
• 35:03
  tree line. It gets it gets you up there and
• 35:05
  you feel you feel good up there. So canon's a good one.
• 35:09
  I always enjoy Canon, and it's a good one too.
• 35:12
  If you do like a little speed trial, like I feel like Canon,
• 35:15
  hail Tecumseh. It's a good like short uphill
• 35:19
  effort if you want to give those kind of a good cracks.
• 35:22
  And then just outside the top 10.
• 35:24
  So this is where approaching the top ten, the last peaks are
• 35:28
  going to be the Wildcats. These are ones, again, I think
• 35:32
  they snuck up. They're really high, really
• 35:34
  high, but again, I just love the view from Wildcat like the ski
• 35:39
  area platform, which again, it's a ski area which some people
• 35:43
  like some people don't like. I kind of like it.
• 35:45
  I I think it mixed it up and makes it friskier.
• 35:50
  If it's legally allowed, you can go up and down the ski trails,
• 35:54
  follow all laws and abide by trail rules or whatever.
• 35:59
  But yeah, the the platform up there is very nice.
• 36:02
  The views are awesome on a clear day.
• 36:04
  I think This is why everyone loves Wildcat, But, and I think
• 36:08
  it's right there with Canon, you know, similar kind of vibe,
• 36:11
  Wildcat D, which, yeah, no, a a Wildcat A has the view down to
• 36:17
  the, the Lakewood and Carter Dome, which is like an awesome
• 36:20
  view. That little lookout.
• 36:21
  So I and the Ridge is kind of longer than you would think, but
• 36:24
  I, I haven't had any horrible experiences there.
• 36:26
  I wouldn't say horrible. And comparing it to Canon,
• 36:32
  they're both ski slopes. They're both in the same kind of
• 36:34
  realm, kind of views, kind of, you know, they got stuff built
• 36:37
  up there. But I'm edging towards the
• 36:40
  Wildcats as beating out Canon because you get Washington in
• 36:44
  your face and it's just a great view.
• 36:47
  And if you fly down the ski slopes hoping to not get in
• 36:50
  trouble, I would imagine that that would throw in some fun to
• 36:54
  the day. But I would imagine, OK, OK, now
• 37:01
  we're approaching the top 10. Now we're at the top ten, top
• 37:05
  10, rounding out the top 10 here.
• 37:08
  We're getting into the good stuff.
• 37:09
  A lot of people are like, oh, you know, he's missing a lot of
• 37:11
  peaks or a lot of ranges or so. The we got some top 10 is going
• 37:16
  to be Pierce and Jackson. I linked those two together.
• 37:20
  You don't always do them together, but linked them
• 37:22
  together. I think they're one of the more
• 37:25
  popular hikes. Obviously they are.
• 37:30
  They're very, yeah, they're very popular.
• 37:32
  We're not going to hold against them, but they're very, very
• 37:34
  good views. They're kind of shorter, one of
• 37:37
  the first ones that I kind of did.
• 37:39
  And and I mean, who just doesn't love the presidentials, right?
• 37:43
  So I linked them both together. So you kind of get 2 for one.
• 37:46
  Is that unfair? I don't know.
• 37:47
  Is it fair? I think it's fair whatever
• 37:50
  Jackson and Pierce lumped in together rounds out the top ten.
• 37:54
  I think they're my least favorite of some of the ones
• 37:57
  remaining, obviously, but that's why I have to say about that
• 38:00
  Jackson more than Pierce, but also they're more technical than
• 38:04
  you would think. No, I think Jackson is a lot
• 38:06
  more technical. Jackson is very rocky and very
• 38:09
  technical. Kind of reminds me of like
• 38:11
  Osceola's just so many people do it and the trail gets eroded
• 38:17
  away. But that is the top, the 10 for
• 38:21
  me #9 da da, da da Kerrigan. Kerrigan got up there, Love
• 38:31
  Kerrigan. Then on Kerrigan a bunch if
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  people are like all we're doing, Kerrigan.
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  I'm, I'm man, I let go into it. It's got a good view.
• 38:38
  It's got a tower at the top, which actually I like.
• 38:40
  I like getting up there and then you get a full view.
• 38:43
  It's one of the best views in the whites.
• 38:45
  I love Signal Ridge. It's a good long sustained
• 38:48
  climb, but not like crazy hard. It's just a good, I just really
• 38:53
  like it, everything about it. I like that you kind of I don't
• 38:56
  like the road walk all the time, but I like that when you start
• 38:59
  the trailhead, you get to a little bit of flat stuff and
• 39:02
  then you get some good, good terrain and then you climb
• 39:04
  again. So you get a little bit of time
• 39:06
  time in different zones. Good views, good hike, good
• 39:10
  days. Kerrigan #9 makes the top ten
• 39:15
  shout out Kerrigan 8, Monroe and Eisenhower.
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  So another Prezi pair. I end up pairing these together
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  'cause I had to kind of pair most of the Prezis up.
• 39:27
  I bundled Monroe and Eisenhower. I really like Lake of the
• 39:31
  Clouds, the view from down there up to Washington very good above
• 39:35
  tree line in the Prezis is, is what everybody wants to wants in
• 39:41
  a, in a good trail run hike. And so that's why most of the
• 39:45
  Prezis are in there. I think there are some better
• 39:48
  Prezis, but that's what I'm going to put for #8 for #8 come
• 39:53
  on phone. Don't die on me like this, OK #7
• 39:58
  Liberty and Flume. Liberty and Flume.
• 40:01
  This is one that some people would be like what?
• 40:04
  How could you? Liberty is one of my favorite
• 40:07
  views in the whites. And obviously I couldn't just do
• 40:11
  all Prezi like all like the cookie cutters.
• 40:14
  Liberty is one of my best view, favorite views in the whites.
• 40:18
  So This is why it kind of got up there.
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  It's one that I've done more, a lot more than others.
• 40:25
  It's Frank Ridge, but you don't get the Frank Ridge hoopla,
• 40:28
  which you aren't supposed to think about the hoopla better
• 40:31
  that Liberty alone carried. And Flume is awesome too.
• 40:34
  Like Flume is a good view Anytime you drive up, that's
• 40:37
  like, oh, that's flume. Hey, see that thing?
• 40:38
  That's flume, the rock slides. That's Flume, flume slide, good
• 40:42
  views, start of a penny end of a penny.
• 40:46
  Flume and Liberty. They they got up there good for
• 40:50
  them #7 on this list I'm but before I think about it more
• 40:53
  high, I'm just got to keep rolling #6 Moose a lock.
• 40:57
  Everybody loves a good moose. A lock.
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  It's a it's a it's an accessible.
• 41:03
  There's lots of different ways. Beaverbrook, the AT Gorgebrook,
• 41:07
  it's awesome views above tree line.
• 41:10
  It's kind of isolated in the southern whites, but you get
• 41:12
  that above tree line feel so you get some of that Ridge running
• 41:17
  with the awesome views. I've had lots of good days on
• 41:20
  moose. I've had a ton of days on moose.
• 41:21
  Again, one of my most hiked peaks.
• 41:23
  A lot of people, most most hiked peaks peaks.
• 41:27
  You get the orange sign. You get wind bleeped when you go
• 41:32
  up there usually, but it's a good time.
• 41:36
  Moose Lock comes in at six. Next up we have #5 drum roll.
• 41:43
  Where is he going with these top five?
• 41:45
  Where is he going? Is he going here?
• 41:46
  Is he going there? We got a few left.
• 41:47
  Which ones are left? Lincoln and Lafayette.
• 41:52
  Franconia Ridge Loop. It's a classic, timeless
• 41:56
  classic. Everybody loves that loop.
• 42:00
  It's very popular. We're not going to hold against
• 42:02
  it. It's very popular, not going to
• 42:04
  hold against it. I've had great days.
• 42:06
  I've done it a bunch. It's the mini Prezi.
• 42:10
  If you're near Lincoln, like it's that kind of area.
• 42:12
  It's a little something different.
• 42:14
  It's good views. It's a tall peek.
• 42:16
  Franconia Ridge shot. Everybody take the picture.
• 42:19
  It can never look as good as when someone else takes it, but
• 42:21
  that's OK. Franconia Ridge Loop.
• 42:24
  I love going up Old Bridle Path and being in that rage.
• 42:29
  Like I'm saying, you know, before the Hut.
• 42:30
  You get some good views out there.
• 42:33
  It's just a great, it's a great one.
• 42:36
  Number five people are like, is that low?
• 42:37
  Is that low? I, I don't know, but that's
• 42:39
  where I put it at link of Lafayette #4 And again, some of
• 42:44
  these, I, I can't think about these too long.
• 42:46
  I went through the list so much and I'm just like move in.
• 42:48
  And then #4 Jefferson. So northern prezis, obviously
• 42:54
  northern prezis are amazing. I think Jefferson, I kept it
• 42:58
  alone. I at first I paired it with
• 43:00
  Washington, but I thought maybe that didn't do Washington
• 43:02
  justice. I it's alone.
• 43:06
  You get good views to Washington right in your face.
• 43:08
  You get good views to Madison Adams right in your face.
• 43:11
  Clay, what's up? Hey, yo, I'm a 4000 footer.
• 43:14
  You're not sorry, Bob. It's just it's it's a great peek
• 43:19
  kind of isolated. We talked about that.
• 43:20
  This is one of the most finished grid peak.
• 43:22
  Did that have anything to do that?
• 43:23
  I have no idea if that got into my brain during when I'm
• 43:25
  sleeping and maybe make this pick.
• 43:27
  I think Jefferson. I haven't been on it like overly
• 43:30
  a ton handful of times, but it's just a good in the middle of the
• 43:35
  northern Prezi's peak. Northern Prezi's are awesome.
• 43:38
  Jefferson is #4 number three, people are thinking, all right,
• 43:44
  take a second right now at home, at the gym, on a run, driving,
• 43:48
  wherever you are, there's three left.
• 43:51
  How is he going to go? How is he going to do this?
• 43:54
  I think these are all kind of in a sense, no brainers, but who
• 43:58
  knows, who knows? Everyone's going to leave me
• 43:59
  your comment, Leave a comment. I people always say like the
• 44:02
  video, leave a comment, subscribe.
• 44:03
  I don't know if that helps. So I just stopped saying that in
• 44:07
  my videos because I have no, I don't know, but leave a comment
• 44:12
  #3 Washington. Washington, obviously it's the
• 44:22
  biggest peak. It's the most, it's the biggest
• 44:25
  attraction. It's an awesome.
• 44:28
  You're at the tallest point east of the Mississippi other than
• 44:32
  whatever Mount Mitchell. I don't know what kind of
• 44:35
  everyone knows Washington. The worst weather you can ski it
• 44:37
  Tucks. It's awesome.
• 44:41
  I mean, yeah, going into Tuckerman's or like in around
• 44:45
  that area on the backside. I honestly haven't spent a ton
• 44:48
  of time in doing it, but it's just so awesome.
• 44:52
  There's so many different approaches to Washington, so
• 44:55
  many different views. It is the big one, Big George.
• 45:00
  There's, there's lots of people up there.
• 45:01
  Yes, we're going to even on a weekday, there's lots of people.
• 45:04
  So that just cut into effect. There's a huge building up
• 45:07
  there, yes, but it's the observatory.
• 45:09
  You get weather data, some people like it, some people
• 45:12
  don't. You can go up the cog, go down
• 45:14
  the cog. Some people hate the cog, some
• 45:15
  people don't. It's the middle.
• 45:17
  It's the biggest Washington #3 could have been number one,
• 45:23
  could have been number one, could have been #2 but it was #3
• 45:25
  for me. I mean, what?
• 45:26
  Like I said, I think another reason too, I like views with
• 45:30
  peaks above me are ridges above me.
• 45:32
  So like the view from Washington is, is awesome, but it's almost
• 45:35
  like I kind of want another, you know #3 Washington #2 and me
• 45:41
  announcing #2 is also just announcing #1 drum roll, please.
• 45:46
  Madison and Adams, the northern prezis, I guess don't think
• 45:50
  about too much. Andrew 2-3 and four sweep, which
• 45:54
  is kind of like, I guess it makes sense that I put them all
• 45:56
  together. Northern prezis.
• 45:58
  The northern Prezis are awesome. It's rugged up there, the best
• 46:02
  views, the mountains are the grandest up there.
• 46:05
  It's good technical trail running.
• 46:07
  You get some smooth stuff. Everything's above the trees.
• 46:10
  I can't see a tree right now. It's awesome.
• 46:13
  It's can be windy, which put some frisk in it.
• 46:16
  Prezi traverse Hut, Traverse lodge to dodge whites 100.
• 46:20
  Everything goes through the prezis.
• 46:23
  Northern Prezis came through and swept 2 to 4 and now people are
• 46:27
  thinking what? Wait what?
• 46:29
  What is number one? My favorite peaks ranking the
• 46:32
  number 14000 footers. My favorite hike.
• 46:36
  Favorite peaks to be on Da da da, the bonds.
• 46:41
  Bond Clift, A blonde clift. Oh my God, did I just I guys, I
• 46:46
  blew it. I blew it.
• 46:48
  How did I blow it? Bond Cliff.
• 46:50
  It's cold. Bond Cliff is my favorite peak.
• 46:55
  The Ridge kind of from Bond to Bond Cliff is my favorite
• 46:58
  section of trail. You're in the Ridge, Bond, Bond
• 47:02
  Cliff to Bond to to West Bond and back is just amazing.
• 47:07
  It's hard to get out there. Yes.
• 47:09
  We were not trying to have any bias there.
• 47:11
  It is the best use. You're in the middle of the
• 47:13
  penny. Is it the Prezi's?
• 47:15
  No, but you're in the middle of the penny.
• 47:17
  You're king of the penny or not The you're in the middle.
• 47:20
  You see everything. It's awesome.
• 47:21
  I've had great days out there. Pemi loop, bonds, Bond Cliff.
• 47:26
  Why are these people hand standing on Bond Cliff?
• 47:29
  Shout out Riley Mcgurn, shout out Jason Beupre.
• 47:33
  I don't know how it's that. It's that same.
• 47:36
  Yeah. Shout out everything about bond
• 47:39
  Cliff, the bonds. How has no one finished the grid
• 47:41
  on bond? Maybe I should be the first
• 47:43
  person. Can I even finish it in time?
• 47:45
  Will somebody race me to this? I first person to finish my grid
• 47:49
  on bond. I can make that happen.
• 47:52
  If I start planning right now, I can make that happen.
• 47:55
  The bonds are the best. I think a lot of people have
• 47:57
  this have this notion as well, but it's they're just hard to
• 48:00
  get to. But that is how I'm going to end
• 48:03
  this list with the bonds being the king.
• 48:06
  Like I said, one through 5 bonds, Madison, Adams,
• 48:10
  Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lafayette, no surprises.
• 48:14
  Lots of good peaks, lots of good views above the trees.
• 48:18
  I mean, lots of trails in the trees, all kind of look the
• 48:21
  same. Like no offense to peak 6
• 48:23
  through 30, but our hikes 6 through 30.
• 48:26
  But those are the best. Those are my favorite.
• 48:29
  I like getting out. We're not holding crowds against
• 48:31
  anybody. Those are my favorite.
• 48:33
  That was the 4000 footer list. It would be actually nice.
• 48:37
  Maybe on my Instagram post I will put in the list.
• 48:40
  And then if you are dedicated, this actually took me a little
• 48:44
  bit. So no pressure.
• 48:45
  It's going to take a little time out of your day.
• 48:47
  Drop your list. And we just have lots of lists
• 48:50
  in the comments. I don't know if you will do
• 48:52
  that, but yeah. And that's my list.
• 48:55
  That's what I like the the peaks on.
• 48:56
  I'm not going to overthink this and and lose sleep over how I
• 49:00
  rank some of these peaks. Are there some things that I
• 49:02
  wish I took back? No, never.
• 49:04
  I stand on ground, stand on truth.
• 49:06
  That's my list. Ranking the 4000 footers.
• 49:10
  There it is. There you have it.
• 49:12
  It's freezing cold. Do I, do I have time?
• 49:14
  Do I have battery to do the second piece of this podcast?
• 49:26
  Yeah, I think I do have battery, but I have freezing cold.
• 49:28
  How, how, how far are we right now?
• 49:31
  55 minutes. Holy smokes.
• 49:33
  OK. But I did have some good
• 49:34
  outtakes in this. All right?
• 49:35
  We're going to keep this ball rolling and we're going to do
• 49:37
  our previews. We're going to do the previews.
• 49:41
  I'll get through this. I can do this.
• 49:42
  We're going to do the previews, OK?
• 49:45
  We're going to preview 3 races. Like I said, three races going
• 49:50
  on next weekend. These are all big previews and
• 49:52
  these are all big races. Very exciting.
• 49:54
  The first race last year standing.
• 49:58
  This is a backyard style every hour on the hour event held on
• 50:03
  Black Mountain in Rumford, ME by the White Mountain Ski Company.
• 50:08
  I'm not going to say ski the Whites, but White Mountain Ski
• 50:11
  Company. This is the 7th year that it was
• 50:14
  held, the 7th edition of this and I think it's grown.
• 50:17
  It's kind of like the winter version of Bubba's.
• 50:20
  Lots of participants, lots of coverage on the laps and some of
• 50:25
  these races have gone on for days.
• 50:27
  So it's an exciting race. Each lap is a little over a mile
• 50:33
  up and down, obviously. And then and then 1200 feet of
• 50:37
  climbing per per lap. And the course records. 2024
• 50:43
  Justin Lagasse, 76 hours on this course, 85,000 feet of gain and
• 50:51
  a lot of the yeah, female course record.
• 50:54
  Natalie Nichols, 38 hours last year in 2020, five, 42,000 feet,
• 51:00
  a gain. So a lot of these races, a lot
• 51:03
  of these runs, they're going into the days one 2-3 days out
• 51:08
  there running OK. We we OK, we restarted
• 51:12
  everything just to make sure we saved what we did have.
• 51:14
  OK. So I went through the course
• 51:16
  records. So again, like the male, the
• 51:18
  men, the top ten men's times or, or efforts 767573717060606060
• 51:26
  something, the woman's 30, all in the 30s.
• 51:30
  So this event goes on for a long time.
• 51:32
  A lot of sluggers have come out. A lot of a lot of people have
• 51:34
  done this event. So it's a it's a, it's a
• 51:37
  grueling event. So here are my thoughts on it.
• 51:41
  I think First off, 90% of people in this race don't want to win.
• 51:46
  I don't think this is a race that you want to win for, for a
• 51:50
  lot of people because what does that mean?
• 51:52
  That means you're out in the freezing cold, skiing for three
• 51:56
  or four days, taking vacation, your crew, you wipe a a week out
• 52:00
  of your calendar. I think most people are not in
• 52:03
  it to win. They're in it for a good time.
• 52:05
  We'll we'll go for 10121524 hours and then they're out.
• 52:09
  This is a hard race to want to win.
• 52:11
  It's like Bubba's, it's like the escutney race.
• 52:16
  So I think a scutney has raised the bar for this kind of event.
• 52:20
  And so the escutney, for people that don't know, is that a
• 52:25
  vertical backyard events that went on for 90 hours, 108,000
• 52:30
  feet a game. Shout out Connor Brown, shout
• 52:32
  out Bill Tidd. And this is a similar style.
• 52:36
  The escutney was on foot though, and the skiing is on skis.
• 52:39
  So until a Scutney, the skiing event always went longer.
• 52:45
  And I think the biggest thing you think is like, all right,
• 52:47
  well, they're working on the way up, but then they can ski down.
• 52:51
  So it's easier on your muscles, which I think is true.
• 52:54
  But I think a Scutney busted that 70, that three day mark and
• 53:00
  said we don't need skis on the way down.
• 53:02
  We're going to run, slash, walk down and we're going to keep all
• 53:06
  on foot. We're going to keep doing it.
• 53:07
  So I think a Scutney raised the bar and I think we're probably
• 53:12
  going to get course records for men and female this year because
• 53:16
  of seeing people go like, all right, if you can do 90 hours,
• 53:19
  they did 90 hours on feet. We got to get closer on skis.
• 53:22
  But again, it's a that's a three or four day commitment.
• 53:25
  How many people are willing to go that far?
• 53:27
  Who knows, But I'm sure there are a handful of people that are
• 53:32
  really competing to win. So we'll go through some of the
• 53:34
  names quick. First up, Brody Levin.
• 53:38
  He won in 2022 with 65 laps. He signed up.
• 53:43
  He hasn't been since. Who knows how many laps he would
• 53:46
  have done because if you win, that's like 8, you just do one
• 53:48
  more. You have no one to compete with
• 53:50
  you. So he could have kept going.
• 53:53
  So I think he is one of the top contenders.
• 53:58
  What was that? Next up, Brent Underkoffler.
• 54:03
  He goes out every year, has a great go at it and but he
• 54:09
  cannot. He has not won it.
• 54:11
  In 2024 he came in fourth 41 laps, 2023 came in second 62
• 54:16
  laps and then 2024 he goes and does 73 laps.
• 54:20
  Is that right? And it's like this, this surely
• 54:22
  should win should win it for me. My third year going, he comes in
• 54:26
  3rd. So he's back.
• 54:28
  He took a year off last year. So maybe he was like, I need a
• 54:30
  rest. He's hopefully back for a
• 54:32
  vengeance. My money might be on him, but
• 54:34
  we'll we'll go through this list might be on him if he wants it.
• 54:40
  Next up, force Ledger. He put up 67 laps last year for
• 54:44
  3rd. So he didn't win last year, but
• 54:46
  he put up a 67 laps. Very impressive.
• 54:48
  So force is back. Matt Schorney last year he did
• 54:55
  26 laps and Matt Schorney, I think we talked about in the
• 54:59
  Pemi Loup super fit. He came I think 15th in the EU
• 55:04
  the the Sunnupee scramble this year, which is crazy.
• 55:09
  He's super fast, super fit. Anytime you get somebody super
• 55:12
  fit in one of these races, even if they haven't done a ton of
• 55:16
  long distance multi day things, they're just probably working
• 55:20
  less hard than a lot of people. And so if they have a good day
• 55:22
  or they really want it, they can go forever.
• 55:24
  So watch out. Matt Torney's in this.
• 55:27
  I'm going to mess this name up. I'm so bad with names.
• 55:31
  Ilana Jesse, she won IN202437 laps.
• 55:38
  That's the only time she showed up.
• 55:40
  So she's won this, she's not the course record, but she's won
• 55:44
  this. The second most laps done and
• 55:46
  she's back again for another. Got it.
• 55:48
  So she's one to watch out for. Hilary McCoy in the women's
• 55:51
  race, one in 202336 laps, third in 2024, so came back and didn't
• 55:58
  repeat, but she got 30 laps. 2 people that have both won the
• 56:01
  event in 2023-2024. That's going to be a good
• 56:04
  showdown. Another name Steven Lyric, he's
• 56:08
  all over the place. He's always doing crazy events.
• 56:11
  He's got a ton of ultras. I ran Jigger Johnson 100 with
• 56:14
  him. Shout out he signed up for
• 56:16
  Hellbender 2026. I saw an ultra sign up shout out
• 56:19
  the last two years been in the 30s.
• 56:21
  He's done this event four times. Watch out he he has a deep well.
• 56:26
  Austin Black is in it this year. He's done it twice, both around
• 56:30
  24 hours, but he set the unsupported whites 100 this
• 56:34
  year, one of the best FK TS of the year I talked about.
• 56:37
  So he maybe he's got that that whites 100 swagger.
• 56:42
  He just entered a new realm of pushing the limits.
• 56:46
  He could be a contender, although I looked at the Nordics
• 56:49
  last Nordic skier standing and he's in that right now.
• 56:52
  So I was like, ah, what is his plan?
• 56:54
  Is he just trying to do both? He's trying to win one.
• 56:56
  He's just trying to win them both.
• 56:57
  That imagine that Austin Black sweeps on the that would be
• 57:00
  crazy. In a single week.
• 57:02
  He's in the events. Another one, Zach McCarthy, this
• 57:07
  is his first race on ultrasound up since 2023.
• 57:11
  He is the second fastest time on the Kilkeny Ridge race.
• 57:15
  He had a he had a few good rips a few years ago on some of the
• 57:17
  races. He hasn't raced since.
• 57:19
  I don't know what he's been up to, I guess in totality, but he
• 57:26
  does the inclusive ski touring and we'll see how he does this
• 57:30
  year, see how long he he goes out there for.
• 57:32
  Another contender, Jesse Ears, a man, he did 28 last year, did
• 57:38
  butts. He did 28 laps last year, but he
• 57:41
  did 31,000 feet on a Scutney, which I think if you just go to
• 57:45
  a Scutney, there's a little Scutney boost this year.
• 57:48
  So maybe he's got that Scutney swagger.
• 57:50
  He's going to come in and be like we and I just did this.
• 57:53
  We just went for so long. I'm coming back.
• 57:56
  I'm going to contend another one.
• 57:59
  David Chorny, I think brother to Matt Chorny, fast in the DNA.
• 58:04
  He's done this event four times, all around 24 hours.
• 58:08
  Kyle Houston, he's done it twice, 30 hours and then 40
• 58:13
  hours and he's he, he's on Strava, I think with a big like
• 58:17
  sparkly hat. And his location is Nunya
• 58:20
  Business, New Hampshire. And that always makes me
• 58:22
  chuckle. So we threw him in here.
• 58:24
  Angus King, the third from Portland, ME.
• 58:28
  No results on ultra sign up or for this race, but awesome name.
• 58:32
  So we shout out Angus King, the third, Patrick Kantley Henner
• 58:41
  from Montpelier, Vt. He's done it every year.
• 58:44
  He's the only person that's done it six times, the only person
• 58:47
  that signed up. Again, shout out.
• 58:50
  I think he's usually maybe around, I don't know, his
• 58:53
  results maybe in the teens. But Patrick from Vermont, he
• 58:57
  comes out, he just loves it. He does it every year.
• 58:59
  He's done it 6 times. Shout out.
• 59:00
  Vermont also shout out and then 30 people on on ultra sign up
• 59:07
  have no results right now, which I always think that more number
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  of people on an ultra sign up page with no results means that
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  there's probably a few cats in there that you don't know about
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  yet that can throw down. You just don't know about them
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  yet. So it's always exciting to see a
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  ton of no results people on the list.
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  If you're in a race, you're like, I don't know anything
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  about these people, like, you know, do I should I be racing
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  these people? So maybe who knows, maybe it'll
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  be some people will surprise us, but we'll see.
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  So All in all, it's going to be a good event to follow.
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  I tried to cover some of the names.
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  I try, I'm going to try to do my research preview on these events
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  and stuff. So if I missed your name, I
• 59:49
  apologize. If you're if you're a slugger,
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  if you think you are a slugger, you're going to come out, show,
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  prove me wrong, get on the list again in the podium.
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  I'll definitely talk about it. But that was the, that was the
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  preview. For the last year standing and
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  now we're going to do the Tarctic.
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  Yeah, Tarctic Frozen Yeti preview.
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  I talked about this. I volunteered here.
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  It's at the Hale Reservation in Westwood, MA, held by TARC.
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  Also the 7th year, which I was like, what?
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  They both started the same year. Both started the same year.
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  It's the 7th year holding the event.
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  It's another brutal middle of the winter cold event.
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  I went the coldest year on record, which I think it was
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  like -20 temps in 2023. That's the year I volunteered at
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  at it. And it's crazy.
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  I mean, it's just a 30 hour event.
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  A lot of it's at night because in the winter, lots of dark cold
• 1:00:47
  and there's a nice warm, welcoming hot food, having
• 1:00:53
  people laughing, having building that you do loops and then you
• 1:00:57
  come back to. So a lot of people get into that
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  thing and like, I'm not going back outside.
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  I'm done. So it adds a little bit of a, a
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  good element to it, like lots of times to drop if you're just
• 1:01:08
  being feeling cold. But there are a few savages at
• 1:01:11
  that race that will go out for the 30 hours and no run and
• 1:01:14
  they'll come in at the end after running all night, all all
• 1:01:16
  morning, freezing cold and be like, do I have time for one
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  more lap? Those people shout out, we'll
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  see. And there's three different
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  loops that you can run on that route.
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  So you kind of mix it up. I don't know how the tracking
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  works, but I'm sure it works. And then if you run a 100 miles,
• 1:01:33
  you get a Yeti buckle. So shout out any buckle's a good
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  buckle, shout out the Yeti buckle.
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  And then there's also a 15 mile event for this.
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  So, so there's with the tart, there's lots of different
• 1:01:43
  distances. I feel like at some of the races
• 1:01:45
  this is a 15 mile event, a night time run starting at 8:00 PM.
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  So those are the races we'll do the course records, the 15 mile,
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  the male course record 150 Patrick Karen.
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  I mean he does he have all the tart course records.
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  Is that can we can we check that?
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  The female 15 mile is 2 hours 41 minutes Ruth Nordoff and the 50
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  mile non binary record 330 Audrey Drake, 30 hours.
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  The male record 115 miles. So obviously it's time.
• 1:02:24
  So I think it goes by miles, but 115 miles, 29 hours 6 minutes.
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  Matt Rogers last year 2025 shout out.
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  I think I ran Trigger Johnson with him.
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  At least I met him. Talk to him.
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  Shout out. Matt Rogers course record and
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  then 30 hour female record is 105 miles in 28 hours 3 minutes
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  by Laura Rickey and then the 30 hour non binary record 65 hours
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  20 holy smokes 65 miles 28 hours 20 minutes live Colombo.
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  So those are the races. Those are the course records.
• 1:03:01
  Who's in it. This events entrance list is not
• 1:03:05
  on ultra sign up so it's hard less to compare what people have
• 1:03:08
  done. I didn't look up anyone
• 1:03:09
  individually. There's no rankings.
• 1:03:11
  I'm going to miss most people. And again, like I said, I am
• 1:03:16
  like they're when I do these previews or after the race, I'm
• 1:03:19
  probably going to miss some people and they're like, Oh, I
• 1:03:20
  wish you'd talked about like 1, go out there and, and do good
• 1:03:24
  and I will definitely talk about it.
• 1:03:25
  And two, I don't follow. I I follow out of the races, but
• 1:03:29
  for a long time I haven't been on social media.
• 1:03:31
  So I don't really know, maybe people from social media or, or
• 1:03:36
  whatever. I usually would just Google
• 1:03:39
  results and races that I was interested in.
• 1:03:41
  And so hopefully overdoing these previews from the year, I start
• 1:03:44
  to recognize some of these names and we can give more shout outs,
• 1:03:48
  congratulations kind of thing. But for now, we'll just do a
• 1:03:52
  quick preview. A few of the names that I know.
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  Matt Carbone, he does tons of the races.
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  He's an OG Jigger Johnson inaugural 50 mile runner.
• 1:04:01
  He's a crusher, always doing big miles.
• 1:04:03
  So he's in the race. Nick and Jackie Fusile, Chris
• 1:04:07
  Man, man's wearing shout out. Those are the White Mountain
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  endurance crew. They all crush.
• 1:04:13
  They do so many ultras. Always good good chat with them.
• 1:04:16
  Good seeing them so shout out. Hopefully they bundle up.
• 1:04:22
  Matt Pacheco. He's really fast.
• 1:04:24
  When I saw his nails, like I know that name.
• 1:04:26
  Matt Pacheco, I looked at his Ulster sign up.
• 1:04:29
  He's fast, straight savage. Last year he won the Tark winter
• 1:04:33
  40. Miller and his 2025 look like
• 1:04:36
  win, win, win, win, win. He's I think he's 40 ish.
• 1:04:43
  No, nothing he gets, but he's he gives me Justin Kowski vibes
• 1:04:46
  like he's just kicking everyone's butt.
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  Take a name. Shut up South Hadley.
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  Shut up Bapshi. Jonathan Western.
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  He ran one of the other Tark ones.
• 1:04:55
  Is he going for a Tark sweep? He's really fast.
• 1:05:00
  So he's definitely a contender. And then I go and check the wait
• 1:05:03
  list for the 30. Wait, yeah, for the 30 hour and
• 1:05:06
  Roy Van Cleef is on there. Who?
• 1:05:09
  I know his name. I think Manchester Monadnock
• 1:05:11
  maybe course record a good, good race.
• 1:05:13
  I know his name Crusher Stud. And then Leila Codgeroth is on
• 1:05:17
  the wait list and I haven't in all caps Stud.
• 1:05:22
  She's a beast, obviously. Go look at her, her her list.
• 1:05:26
  She does crazy miles. Usually the wait list for these
• 1:05:30
  races get on the the the the race.
• 1:05:33
  So hopefully they get in it and it is just a throw down out
• 1:05:37
  there in the cold and then Patrick Karen is the only person
• 1:05:41
  in the 50 mile. Duh.
• 1:05:44
  Last up, we're not going to do a full preview here, but this is
• 1:05:48
  just another race. I want to talk about the Frozen
• 1:05:50
  Heart 900. It's in Rock Fall, Connecticut
• 1:05:53
  held by the CT trail mixers. It's also also the 7th year this
• 1:05:58
  race is happening. What is going on all it was like
• 1:06:01
  7 years ago like a really bad winter and everyone's like I
• 1:06:03
  want to start a winter race. I don't know but it is a self
• 1:06:07
  supported fat ass style. No aid station, no Pacers show
• 1:06:12
  up and run 2.2 mile loops. No fee.
• 1:06:15
  But it's actually recommended to donate $20.00 to the
• 1:06:19
  conservation, Who, who, whatever takes care of the trails.
• 1:06:22
  So cool that there's no fee. Double cool that a lot of people
• 1:06:25
  probably donate. That's a race going on next
• 1:06:28
  weekend. And then the last Nordic skier
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  standing, I looked, there are 38 people who did the race.
• 1:06:36
  Two people have DNF so far. And I think that the the names
• 1:06:40
  that I knew, Erika Notini, who's a crusher, and then Austin
• 1:06:43
  Black, like I talked about is in that race.
• 1:06:46
  Maybe we'll throw the results of that race in at the end of the
• 1:06:48
  episode, but that is all I got for you today.
• 1:06:53
  Honestly, this one was I am freezing my butt off out of
• 1:06:55
  here. This was a tough one, but
• 1:06:58
  hopefully it all came out good. Yeah, I'm excited to start like
• 1:07:02
  covering these races, hopefully to have people on and talk about
• 1:07:05
  it. And yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:08
  So it's a, it's a, it's a big, it's a busy couple weekends.
• 1:07:11
  Keep your eyes out for these races and we will kind of report
• 1:07:16
  back on everything next week or after the races conclude.
• 1:07:21
  So that's all I got today. Yeah, I think that's all I got
• 1:07:24
  today. Stay warm out there.
• 1:07:27
  And Joslyn had told me like, yeah, you said stay warm, but
• 1:07:29
  but everyone kind of is going to listen to listen to the podcast
• 1:07:33
  after it was wicked cold. And I was like, yeah, that's a
• 1:07:35
  good point. I don't know why I said that.
• 1:07:36
  But again, I just said it. Stay warm.
• 1:07:38
  Stay warm this winter. We're going to get through it.
• 1:07:41
  Those are the races. Those are my 4000 footers.
• 1:07:44
  That's all I got for you this week.
• 1:07:46
  We'll see you next time. Peace.
• 1:07:49
  All right, we're going to wrap this podcast up with the Last
• 1:07:53
  Nordic Skier standing results and a trip report.
• 1:08:00
  I just did Pearce and Eisenhower, so I'll do
• 1:08:03
  conditions and what happened out there to end this off.
• 1:08:08
  So the last Nordic Skier standing, it ended up going 21
• 1:08:12
  hours. Peter Phelan wins it.
• 1:08:16
  The first finisher of the event. I think this is the first year
• 1:08:20
  they had this event. So I believe he's the first
• 1:08:22
  finisher and he beats out Eli Grossman with the assist.
• 1:08:27
  Eli did 20 hours for the Nordics gear and I was looking at the
• 1:08:32
  the videos. The videos are pretty funny at
• 1:08:35
  the last couple laps. I mean, this, I don't know the
• 1:08:38
  exact temps up there, but it definitely was in the negatives
• 1:08:42
  overnight and it it was freezing for this event.
• 1:08:46
  And the photos of the videos that ski the Whites was White
• 1:08:51
  Mountain Ski company was posting was just eyelash icicles, hair
• 1:08:56
  icicles, icicles everywhere. It just looked like a frozen
• 1:09:00
  event and it was kind of making me think, so obviously this
• 1:09:05
  event lasts a lot shorter than the last skier standing
• 1:09:09
  typically does. I would have to imagine that's
• 1:09:13
  because I mean they're kind of working the whole time.
• 1:09:17
  I think the laps were like a little over 5 miles, about 5
• 1:09:21
  miles. So it's you know, the last year
• 1:09:23
  standing you you're working on the way up, but then you get to
• 1:09:25
  ski down, kind of take a break. So I think you're probably
• 1:09:29
  working for longer. And then I mean, I think the
• 1:09:32
  cold really it did a number out there like if if it's that cold
• 1:09:38
  for a last year standing, I don't know what the the previous
• 1:09:41
  years have been for the last year standing, how cold is it's
• 1:09:44
  gotten? But if it's that cold, I mean it
• 1:09:46
  throws in complications. It's can suck your will very
• 1:09:52
  quickly. So and now I was kind of
• 1:09:55
  thinking about it. I think the last year standing
• 1:09:58
  stuff probably takes a little bit more willpower than like
• 1:10:04
  physical power just because it's so cold out, because in these
• 1:10:09
  ultras when you get tired and you get cold, it's so easy to
• 1:10:14
  want to quit. I mean, you just slow right down
• 1:10:17
  a warm ramen, a warm, some warm soup, a warm building that you
• 1:10:22
  go in for an aid station stop. It is just so easy to drop.
• 1:10:26
  So I really think you need that willpower to keep wanting to go
• 1:10:30
  out in the freezing cold. And when it's that cold out, I,
• 1:10:34
  I think, you know, even just like hiking, you sometimes it
• 1:10:39
  can be really cold and you, you kind of like your brain freezes
• 1:10:43
  a little bit. Like I don't know how to explain
• 1:10:45
  it, but sometimes your your thoughts just move a little bit
• 1:10:49
  slower and you can't like think as fast if it's like really,
• 1:10:52
  really cold out. And that's kind of what happens
• 1:10:54
  in ultras anyway. So I think those factors play a
• 1:10:57
  big part in it. So anyway, cool event, the last
• 1:11:01
  Nordic skier standing. Shout out Peter.
• 1:11:04
  He wins it this year and and that's a wrap on that.
• 1:11:08
  And then my trip report from today, I did Pierce and
• 1:11:14
  Eisenhower from Crawford Notch. It snowed a bunch.
• 1:11:18
  We had the huge snowstorm last week.
• 1:11:21
  It was really cold this week. So I don't think a ton of people
• 1:11:24
  have gotten out on the trail. And the trip reports were kind
• 1:11:29
  of that I was looking at before I went.
• 1:11:31
  We're kind of saying definitely bring snowshoes.
• 1:11:34
  The trail is pretty soft out there, so I didn't even bring
• 1:11:38
  spikes. I just put my snowshoes on at
• 1:11:40
  the beginning. The trail up to Pierce it was,
• 1:11:44
  there were tons of people in front of me when I started this
• 1:11:46
  morning. I started pretty late and it was
• 1:11:49
  very packed down, but it was so super loose and super
• 1:11:54
  unconsolidated. So like there must have been 100
• 1:11:58
  people in front of me. It felt like maybe 50, but a ton
• 1:12:02
  of people had stomped it out and it was still really soft.
• 1:12:04
  So snowshoes were definitely faster than Spike's today.
• 1:12:08
  I think by tomorrow, just because of how many people
• 1:12:12
  actually went on it today with snowshoes, like there were so
• 1:12:15
  many groups, tons of people. It's a very popular hike.
• 1:12:18
  I think tomorrow Spikes will probably be close to as good as
• 1:12:23
  snowshoes up to Pierce. Like they're probably it's going
• 1:12:27
  to be a little bit loose still, but you you don't have to bring
• 1:12:30
  the extra weight. So it's probably about the same
• 1:12:32
  tomorrow. So it's kind of a pick em.
• 1:12:34
  But then from Pierce to Eisenhower, again, there was a
• 1:12:39
  lot of people in front of me. Actually there was definitely
• 1:12:42
  maybe you know, 56710 groups or people in front of me that that
• 1:12:49
  went to Eisenhower. So it was it was all broken out,
• 1:12:52
  but it was very, very soft. I was posting only a couple
• 1:12:55
  times, you know, running with just my snowshoes.
• 1:12:59
  So you kind of I got to slow down and really just power hike
• 1:13:01
  that section. Pretty spruce, trappy post holy.
• 1:13:07
  So definitely need snowshoes on Pierce to Eisenhower.
• 1:13:10
  Even if you go tomorrow you will definitely need snowshoes on
• 1:13:13
  that section. But the conditions were today
• 1:13:16
  today were beautiful. It felt like above tree line.
• 1:13:20
  There were some clouds and a little bit of wind down low.
• 1:13:23
  So it was pretty cold. Like I think it started off at
• 1:13:26
  4° this morning at the base. Real real temperature.
• 1:13:31
  But as I got up higher and into the sun, once the sun was out,
• 1:13:35
  it was like gorgeous. And there was no clouds up top.
• 1:13:39
  It was Bluebird stunner. And yeah, it was really, really
• 1:13:43
  good conditions out there. So a very nice day to get out
• 1:13:46
  and there were a ton of people out there enjoying it.
• 1:13:48
  And I am going up the, the mountain 30 minutes and I, yeah,
• 1:13:55
  30 minutes and I start at 10 and I passed maybe a few people and
• 1:14:01
  I don't know, I have like the same whenever I pass people, I'd
• 1:14:04
  just say, hey, you know, hello or whatever.
• 1:14:06
  I say something like when I'm in a decent distance away.
• 1:14:08
  So I try not to scare him. And so I'm passing this group
• 1:14:11
  and guy turns around. It's my uncle who lives in
• 1:14:15
  Boston. And I'm like, what the heck.
• 1:14:18
  And then it's my uncle, my aunt and my mother that I ran into
• 1:14:22
  randomly 30 minutes into the hike.
• 1:14:25
  And I was like, what is going on?
• 1:14:27
  No way. So they were out.
• 1:14:30
  We just did the same hike today. They were doing Pierce and so
• 1:14:34
  that was cool to see them. It was very, very cold.
• 1:14:38
  So I kind of I, you know, I stopped talk to them when I pass
• 1:14:41
  and then when I was coming back down, but kind of had to keep
• 1:14:44
  moving. And I run into my mom a fair
• 1:14:48
  amount in the mountains. Like it's not the craziest thing
• 1:14:50
  in the world 'cause we're both always kind of out and about and
• 1:14:53
  we don't typically kind of share what we're doing a lot of the
• 1:14:55
  time. So it is always a surprise, but
• 1:15:00
  my aunt and my uncle both live like near Boston so to see them
• 1:15:05
  randomly and start within 1/2 hour each other for for the same
• 1:15:09
  hike was very cool. And just I, I don't know, it's
• 1:15:13
  like, you know, small world I guess.
• 1:15:15
  In the winter, I feel like people run into each other more
• 1:15:20
  because only a certain amount of trails are actually packed out,
• 1:15:23
  but still kind of crazy timing. So it's cool to see them.
• 1:15:27
  And there was a ton of people out.
• 1:15:28
  Like I said, I saw a couple other kind of old friends on the
• 1:15:32
  trail, which is cool. And so stop talking to them
• 1:15:36
  quick. And and yeah, All in all, it's a
• 1:15:39
  good day out. So that was the trip report.
• 1:15:44
  That was the last Nordic skier standing.
• 1:15:47
  I don't know where this is going to go into the episode, probably
• 1:15:50
  at the end, but who knows. But anyway, that's all I got.
• 1:15:57
  See you next time. Who's?