[pct-l] JMT record attempts & new records

[Reinhold Metzger]

> Hi gang,
> This has been an exiting year for record attempts....Scott and Adam on 
> the PCT and Brett Maune, Jeff Kozak, Michael Popov, and Ian Alloway on 
> the JMT.
>  Jeff bailed at Kearsarge Pass,  Michael bailed at Tuolumne Mdw. and 
> the results are not yet in for Ian.
> Brett Maune, however, as incredible as it may seem, broke both 
> Michael's unsupported and  Sue ''Stinky feet''  Johnston's supported 
> record but going unsupported utilizing a high tech menu consisting of  
> ''Perpetuem & Recoverite" delivering 21,000.........yes 21,000 
> calories a day.
> Holy Toledo!!!...... that is more calories a day than I consumed 
> during any of my entire JMT fastpacks.
> He finished in 3 days, 14 hrs, 13 minutes from the Portal and in 3 
> days, 9 hrs, 58 minutes from the Whitney summit.
> Wow.....that is really smoking.
>
> Boy, these boys have taken this JMT thing to a whole new level.
> When I first hiked the JMT in 1996 I was wearing waffle stumper boots, 
> hauling a 85 lb pack and cooking oat meal and freeze dries on a 
> whisper lite stove.
> You have to hand it to those boys, they have really taken this speed 
> hiking to an entirely new level.
> I can't congratulate them enough.
>
> JMT Reinhold
>