Mt. Leconte

[ptothec]

Does anyone have information regarding FKTs on any of the Mt. Leconte trails?

[daworth21]

There are a couple of FKT's floating around for Leconte. A guy out of oak ridge claims 47mins, seconds unknown, for an ascent of alum cave trail. He has run leconte around six hundred times so I don't blame him for not remembering. This time is essentially running from the trailhead to the main staircase at the lodge, not the official summit. The only other time even close to this is around 52mins for the same route.

I ran all the trails to leconte in August of 2011, abackofbeyond.blogspot.com/2011/08/day-full-of-ups-and-downs-speed-attempt.html, in 10hrs3mins41secs. As far as I know this is the FKT for the route.

There are a lot of FKT's up for grabs still on LeConte, specifically, round trip times of the individual trails.

[pkmckinney]

I don't know if this is necessarily an FKT, but I did LeConte last summer. I went up Rainbow Falls to the summit (not the lodge), and came down Bull Head Trail back to the parking lot.

Total time was 4:42:13

TH to summit via Rainbow Falls: 2:54:08
Summit to TH via Bull Head: 01:48:05
Total Elevation Gain: 4783'
Total Distance RT: 14.07 mi
Device used: Garmin Forerunner 305 and Garmin c60x(?)

I wasn't flying, I stopped to take in the views and get some pics on the way up and down. Awesome trail, and some amazing scenes on the way up and down. Too bad that the summit is not open to view the surroundings, but at least there's some good views along the way!

[Isaiah Dodson]

Dose any one know if there is a new record? I think I would like to set the fkt

[Evan Hone]

I am out here in on vacation from Cali and have run Leconte a few times this past week. This morning I started at the Rainbow Falls parking lot and ran up to the Leconte lodge and back down to the Rainbow Falls parking lot in 2 hours and 17 minutes. It was super muddy from all the rain this past week and I was not in a racing mindset. Anyways I think this time is super soft and think I could get it around the 2 hour mark if conditions were better and I decided to go for it. I also did not bring any food or water with me this morning. This is a beautiful trail and wish I had more time to explore the amazing TN mountains.

[Virginia Ultra Runner]

I ran the Old Sugarland Trail to Trillium Gap Trail, out to Brushy Mountain and up Trillium Gap to Mt. Leconte and back. Didn't set the world on fire, but that is about a 25 mile out and back. I'd like to see a FKT Mt. Leconte to Clingmans Dome and back.

[alivecubed]

New FKT up/down 1:27
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