[pct-l] Williamson attempting to regain unsupported PCT speed record NOW!

[shon mcganty]

I think if you are going to try to beat a specified time, then it is important to note details like taking alternate routes or a support team.  If someone takes a different route and the total miles are different by a few, then one could add or subtract a few hours based on average hike miles (thing about the new PCT around Suiattle River adding 5 miles, or the new furture PCT that avoids the LA aquaduct, future hikers could maybe subtract hours off their actual hike to compare to the records of Scott, Anish and Garrett).
 
But, if you used a support crew, then that makes it a whole different category, in my mind anyways.  With a support crew you could be carried much much less, if that support crew is meeting the hiker at every or nearly every main road crossing.
 
But if  a speed record is running the trail (ie David Horton or Butterfly) then that's a different category also, and shouldn't be mentioned with hiker's speed records.
 
I think this is a matter of fairness.  Like indoor vs outdoor track records are not grouped together, they are seperated because they are different in regards to the difficulty or ease of one track surface from the other.
 
If I would be going after the speed record, I'd be trying to beat Anish, not Josh Garrett's record, because a support team is something that's out of my reach (unless someone wanted to sponser me too?)
 
Shon
 

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 From: "gary_schenk at verizon.net" <gary_schenk at verizon.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Williamson attempting to regain unsupported PCT speed record NOW!
  

Why is this unsupported nonsense so important? I don't get it. If you drink out of caches and consume calories from trail magic, it's supported. People have provided you with supplies.

(In Catch-22, Yossarian complained that the Germans were trying to kill him. He was told they were trying to kill everybody! He said, so what? Same with caches and magic, it might be for everybody, but it still affects you.)

These are _AMAZING_ accomplishments, why try to force a phony and unnecessary adjective onto it? It just cheapens it.

Not trying to be an a**hole, but just trying to understand.

Curiously (and curmudgeonly!),
Gary


On 08/20/13, Scott "Squatch" Herriott wrote:

If there's a jock strap in that box, I'm afraid that makes it a supported
attempt.


Squatch
http://www.squatchfilms.com/


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Robert Henry <rrh.henry at gmail.com> wrote:

> In violation of privacy rules -:), I can say that Scott's box #1 was in
> the Summit Inn at Snoqualmie pass a week ago.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Scott "Squatch" Herriott <
> yetifan7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As has been said many times, the dude is a stud.
>>
>> According to Chris Hillier, he's currently heading southbound
>>
>> Get to Forester Pass ASAP, friend.
>>
>>
>> Yaya con dios,
>> Squatch
>>
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