Ben Nephew set the current FKT, 6h27m48s, on Sept. 11, 2011. Larisa Dannis has the women's FKT, 7h34m25s, set Sept. 17, 2012.
The Pemigewasset Loop is a rugged 31-mile route in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It has become a popular backpacking route, as well as a tough 1-day challenge. This page has detailed information about the route.
Ryan Welts scorched the route in 7h05m32s on August 9, 2009. He had support on Mt. Lafayette and had made a food drop at Galehead Hut the day before. Slightly more information is available at this thread.
Less than a month later, on September 4, 2009, Ben Nephew (9 time Escarpment Trail winner) and Kevin Tilton ran the Pemi in a new FKT of 7h04m47s, taking just 45 seconds off of Welts' record! Their report with splits is here.
Jan Wellford beat Nephew & Tilton's time on September 8, 2010, running the loop in 6h47m04s. His report is here. Wellford provided some splits for the run below.
Next, on June 19, 2011, Adam Wilcox did the Pemi in 6h46m10s, less than 1 minute faster than Wellford. Links to Wilcox's report and GPS track are below.
Finally, on September 11, 2011, Ben Nephew crushed the Pemi in 6h27m48s. This is the current FKT. Nephew's report is on the Inov-8 team website, and a link to his gps track is below.
As best I can tell, prior to Welts the FKT for the Pemi Loop was held by Alex Kahl, at "about 7h25m" in (August?) 2005. Charles Dona reported doing 7h26m31s in September 2008, which seems to be close enough to "about 7h25m" to be considered a tie.
While not the FKT, a detailed report (with splits) of a fast (8h14m14s) Pemi Loop by Kevin Tilton July 4, 2005, gives an idea of what is involved in running the Pemi.
As reported below, Kristina Folcik ran the Pemi in 9h3m15s on Aug. 27, 2011. Prior to this, the fastest women's time appears to have been by Sue Johnston, 9h15m. Folcik's time was bested less than a year later (June 16, 2012) by Larisa Dannis, who ran counter-clockwise in 7h40m52s, as reported below. A link to Dannis' detailed report is below. She gives splits as follows (based on pictures from her phone camera): Start - 6:55:54am Bondcliff Junction - 7:38:35am (0:42:41) Bondcliff - 8:47:52am (1:51:58) Bond - 9:10:23am (2:14:29) Guyot - 9:29:37am (2:33:43) South Twin - 10:01:09am (3:05:15) Galehead Hut - 10:18:23am (3:22:29) Lafayette - 12:26:57pm (5:31:03) Liberty - 1:21:16pm (6:25:22) Flume - 1:42:17pm (6:46:23) Finish - 2:37:07 (7:41:13) Three months later, Dannis reported (below) beating her own FKT by about 6 minutes, running 7h34m25s on Sept. 17, 2012.
"Is someone chasing you or are you doing this for fun?" -- Kevin Tilton
Posted by Jan Wellford on Sept 7, 2010, 11:09pm
I ran the Pemi Loop in 6h47m04s on September 8, 2010.
Jan (and everyone), Please keep the issue of verification in mind. You put a lot of effort into these trips & you want people to believe you did what you say. Check out the verification section here: http://fastestknowntime.proboards.com/in....hread=19&page=1
Jan, please contact me - I have some questions about your recent FKT trips. Thx, pbakwin_at_comcast.net
Posted by Jan Wellford on Sept 18, 2010, 5:17pm
After an email discussion with Peter I have decided to go back to the Pemi this Monday (September 20th), this time with a borrowed Garmin 305 gps watch for verification purposes. This post is to serve as my notification. If you're in the area and doubt my previous times (or don't doubt but are willing to come along to help verify the hike) please don't hesitate to be there.
I'm shooting for a 9:15 to 9:30 arrival at Lincoln Woods and a 9:45 to 10:00 start.
Jan jwellford _at_ hotmail
Posted by Jan Wellford on Sept 19, 2010, 5:52am
Also the date of my first Pemi FKT should have read September 7th, 2010.
Posted by Jan Wellford on Sept 21, 2010, 10:22am
Yesterday didn't go so well: I just didn't have the legs, and struggled with cramping and nausea. I still managed to get to Galehead with about a 7 minute lead on Ben & Kevin (10 minutes behind my time), but decided to walk it in after South Twin as I hadn't been able to keep any food down since Garfield. I'll go back and prove myself another time.
Proof of my splits is there, at least. Ryan Welts was there and ran a 7:14 if I'm remembering correctly. I saw him top out on Bondcliff at 4pm on the dot, and Rob (Sasquatch) can verify when they started. This is after a summer spent in the UK without running mountains.
On Saturday August 27, 2011 I appear to have broken the womens pemi loop record in 9:03:15. I ran with Ryan Welts and my report can be read at www.dangergirldh.com I have a GPS track I am trying to figure out how to upload. I accidently left it on when we took a dip in the water and then again when we got back to southern NH so you may see some driving tracks. I am not too familiar with using this GPS yet. I will upload them as soon as I can. My splits are listed below.
The Pemi Loop should be an official yearly mountain race in teams of two. I think by doing that mountain runners/hikers can all train and get together for a tough race, and the best can win bragging rights for the year.
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