[pct-l] sexy men / Switchback's PCT fuzzy pink slippers

[Brick Robbins]

I've gone over most of the JMT several times, once as my PCT hike.

I did the trail two years in a row, the first in 9 days, the second in 7. I
even wrote an article a few years later in UltraRunning about how to do such
a trip. This was Pre-Jardine (or at least pre his book on the PCT.)

I don't care much for records, and that was pre-internet, so the community
keeping track of such things was pretty sketchy.

We didn't have Syl Nylon, and made my pack and gaitors, made a bivy sack. I
had a custom bag made by Western Mountaineering, and I used some of the
original Mont-Bell stuff, before they got sold and the gear got heavier.


On Dec 1, 2007 4:44 AM, Reinhold Metzger <reinholdmetzger at cox.net> wrote:

> BRICK,
> The  JMT  in 7 days in 1990 before ultra light gear?
> That is amazing, I take my hat off to you.
> I did my first JMT in 1996 with the Scouts in 21 days hauling a 85 lb
> pack.
> Back then 21 - 30 days was the average time for the JMT.
> I never met anybody that did the JMT in 7 days until the recent years
> after the ultra light revolution was in full bloom.
> Did you go North or South, supported or unsupported and what was your
> pack weight?
> This is very interesting, I would like to know more about your JMT trek.
> Have you done it since 1990?
> This could have potentially been a record back in 1990.
>
> AMAZING!!!
>
> I also made most of my own gear because it is lighter and meets my need
> better than the commercial gear.
>
> JMT Reinhold
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> BRICK  wrote:......I did my first fast pack of the JMT  in 7 days in
> 1990. I actually had to make my own gear, because no one else was.
>
>
>


-- 
Brick Robbins
brick at fastpack.com
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