[at-l] AT speed records

[Bror8588 at aol.com]

The speed of a hike may satisfy some but the person who hikes slowly has  
more time to savor the trail, see the flora, notice others who are out enjoying  
the trail, and absorbing the culture in various hamlets, villages, and towns  
along the way.  In speed hiking there is little opportunity to "Yogi" or  even 
scavenge grub.  Of course, anyone who does the trail will do it in the  way 
that satisfies themselves but using the trail as an athletic episode is not  of 
interest to me.  I could care less how long someone takes to complete  the 
quest.  But, tell me what you experienced or noticed, tell me about the  people 
you met, the characters and the lay of the land, ah, then I can enjoy  another 
experience through the eyes of someone who saw what I did not see, or  
perhaps someone who saw what I saw but with a different perspective.
 
Skylander
 
 
In a message dated 2008-10-01 10:04:52 Eastern Daylight Time,  
lpatton at fsu.edu writes:

For  those who care:
Karl Meltzer's pursuit of the Appalachian Trail speed  record ended Monday 
morning... 
reached Springer's summit at 4:20 a.m.,  completing a quest that began at 
7:08 a.m. 
Aug. 5 from atop Maine's Mount  Katahdin.  …Meltzer failed to break the 
unofficial 
trail speed record  held by Andrew Thompson of Lyme, he hiked and jogged 
2,174 
miles … in 54  days, 21 hours and 12 minutes... Thompson hiked the trail in 
47 days, 
13  hours and 31 minutes in 2005.  Karl Meltzer, … posted the fourth-fastest  
time 
ever for an Appalachian Trail hike.

In order, the fastest  finishers:
Andrew Thompson: 47 days 13 hours 31 minutes (2005)
Pete  Palmer: 48 days 20 hours 11 minutes (1999)
David Horton: 52 days 9 hours  (1991)
Karl Meltzer: 54 days 21 hours 12 minutes
Scott Grierson: 55 days  20 hours 34 minutes (1991)
Jennifer Pharr Davis: 57 days 8 hours 35 minutes  (2008)

~~  eArThworm
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