Joined: Sept 2011 Gender: Male Posts: 6 Location: Sedona, AZ
Hole-to-Hump (AZ) « Thread Started on Sept 12, 2011, 7:02pm »
Hole-to-Hump The Hole-to-Hump is a run that starts at the Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon (elevation – 2500’) and ends at the summit of Mt. Humphreys (elevation – 12,633’ – Arizona’s highest point). The route starts by ascending up the South Kaibab Trail to the top of the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. From there is heads east on Desert View Drive where it leads to a vast network of Forest Service roads that head southeast to the base of Mt. Humphreys. The Mt. Humphreys summit trail is then taken to the summit and the end of the route. The route is somewhere between 80-90 miles long (depending on who you ask). That distance does NOT take into consideration the 7.5 miles that you need to hike down into the Grand Canyon just to get to the start. It also doesn’t take into consideration the 4.5 miles that you need to hike down Mt. Humphreys after reaching the summit. The main article about the run can be found here. It doesn’t look like this run has been done completely unsupported due to the lack of water in the plains between the canyon and the mountain. The usual method is to use caches or a support vehicle or a combination of the two. As far as I can tell here are the following finishing stats so far (PLEASE feel free to correct any of these or add to the list since my homework is far from exhaustive): Scott Baxter/Alan Williams – 21hrs 29min (1982) Mike Ehlerman - 20hrs 59min (1983 **CR**) Mathieu Brown – 25hrs ??min (2008) Adam Gifford/Jason Henrie - 26hrs 52min (2011)
OK...we're going for it this weekend (1 October 2011). I am running the route with Jason Henrie from Flagstaff. We are being crewed by Scott Baxter who is the original sub-24 dood from back in 1982...it's almost like a passing of the torch ceremony (minus the torch due to National Forest fire regulations). We will be mostly following the Old Moqui Stage Coach Route throught the plains between the Grand Canyon and Mt. Humphries. We aren't planning on tracking anything electronically, but we have a crew of about 5 who can vouch for any successes (or failures). This is actually a different route then the ones that have already been stated in this thread. The guys who ran this in the 1980's actually used about 50 miles of paved road. We will only be on about 7 miles of road to get from the South Kaibab trailhead to the Grandview Tower in the park...the rest will be dirt road, trail, and bushwack. It should be a fun weekend regardless of what happens...
Joined: Sept 2011 Gender: Male Posts: 6 Location: Sedona, AZ
Re: Hole-to-Hump (AZ) « Reply #4 on Oct 5, 2011, 6:23pm »
This past weekend Jason Henrie from Flagstaff and I complete this route in 26 hours 52 minutes. we were crewed by Scott Baxter who was the first person to complete this challenge. It was EXACTLY 30 years ago to the day that Scott completed this run, so the whole adventure had a very cool "passing of the torch" feel. Regarding the FKT this is a different route than others have taken in the past. If you look at this as an open course point-to-point then this is obviously not a speed record. I don't know the exact route that Mathiew Brown took in 2008, but it had to be a bit different than ours since we took sections of the AZ Trail that were constructed less than a year ago. There can be tons of debate on this, so the only public claim that I'll make is that we had a freakin' blast on this adventure and I can't wait to give it another go next year (we are planning on an all female H2H next year, and we'll probably have our time crushed )
Re: Hole-to-Hump (AZ) « Reply #5 on Oct 6, 2011, 1:56pm »
Here is a report from our run that includes a map of the course we took. Now you have no excuse...get out and run this thing! Bottom of the Grand Canyon to the top of the highest point in Arizona...sick!
Re: Hole-to-Hump (AZ) « Reply #6 on May 22, 2013, 6:52pm »
Howdy! My name is Matthew Hintzman. On Saturday May 25 I will be running a modified version of this run I call H2H+. I live on the Noth Rim, so I will be starting at the North Kaibab Trailhead instead of at Phantom Ranch, which adds around 14 miles. I will have a crew of one with me for most of the run. My rough calculations based on Jason's report is that the run measures about 110 miles. I will post results as soon as I can.
Re: Hole-to-Hump (AZ) « Reply #7 on May 29, 2013, 9:27am »
Made it to Snowbowl in about 30 hours. Made it to the summit in about 36. Not the best times, but a great adventure for sure. I will be attempting it again with better knowledge of the route in tow. North Rim to Humphreys measures 110-112 miles.
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