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Post by Peter Bakwin on Oct 29, 2009 17:14:59 GMT -5
Mark Lundblad set the FKT, 14h26m, February 2012.
Matt Kirk had the previous fastest time, 16h52m, set March 5, 2005.
Anne Lundblad has the fastest time by a woman, 20h47m, April 16, 2011.
Here's what GORP says about the 76-mile long Cherokee Foothills Trail:
The Foothills Trail may be the most unsung, underused, and underrated long trail in the Southeast. It traverses the Cherokee Foothills of the Southern Appalachians in North and South Carolina, through state parks, national forests, and state-owned preserves. In these lands are high ridgelines, wild and scenic rivers, deep rock gorges, wilderness areas, mountain lakes, clear trout streams, towering forests, and a number of incredible waterfalls stretching from one end of the path to the other. There are so many cascades along the Foothills Trail that I wonder why they didn't name it the Waterfall Trail. -- Johnny Molloy, on GORP
On March 5, 2005, Matt Kirk, Byron Backer and John Dove set out to establish a speed mark on the Foothills Trail. Matt finished the trail in at time of 16h52m. His brief report is here.
Matt repeated the trail on March 15, 2008, completing in 18h37m, as reported on his blog.
Mark Lundblad set an excellent new mark of 14h26m in February 2012, as reported here (note that the link in the post below appears to be broken).
Jason Sullivan has organized several group starts on the Foothills trail, and has set up a website and a blog dedicated to thru-runs. He reports that Scott Hodukavich ran the CFT out & back (154 miles) in 70h26m total elapsed time in March 2012. Hodukavich took 31h52m to go from Oconee State Park to Table Rock State Park, rested 6h48m, then went back in 31h46m.
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Post by machine on Dec 26, 2010 15:38:59 GMT -5
I believe Phreak holds the unsupported fastpack record for the Foothills Trail at 22 hr 40 min (all hiking - no running). I was on the trail with some friends when he blazed past our campsite.
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Post by Peter Bakwin on Feb 8, 2011 14:51:02 GMT -5
I believe Phreak holds the unsupported fastpack record for the Foothills Trail at 22 hr 40 min (all hiking - no running). I was on the trail with some friends when he blazed past our campsite. That would be Brian Turner, who hiked unsupported in 22h40m on May 27-28, 2006. His brief report, including split times, is copied below (from www.trailjournals.com). I decided to hike from Table Rock to Oconee in order to hit the tougher climbs first and cruise the last half of the trail. Sherpa dropped me off at Table Rock State Park, where I would begin the trail. He then drove over to Oconee, where he would camp for the night and wait for me to finish the trail.
My pack weight was somewhere around 23-24 pounds for this trip. The weather was awesome, cool temperatures and clear skies. I had decided to log my times throughout each section. I used the FTC Guide To The Foothills Trail for determing the beginning and end of each section. In lieu of mundane details of this trip, I will instead list each section and time it took to complete each one.
I started the trail at 9:00AM on Saturday and finished at 7:40AM on Sunday.
Trail completed in 22 hours 40 minutes. -- Brian Turner
A1 – A2 | 8.8 miles | 2h26m |
A2 – A3 | 2.7 miles | 0h46m |
A3 – A4 | 2.1 miles | 0h42m |
A4 – A5 | 8.1 miles | 2h24m |
A5 – A6 | 5.8 miles | 1h47m |
A6 – A7 | 16.4 miles | 4h56m |
A7 – A8 | 2.3 miles | 0h40m |
A8 – A9 | 5.5 miles | 1h43m |
A9 – A10 | 3.3 miles | 1h01m |
A10 – A11 | 3.9 miles | 1h12m |
A11 – A12 | 10.4 miles | 2h54m |
A12 – A13 | 1.4 miles | 0h30m* |
A13 – A14 | 4.6 miles | 1h39m |
*Time appears as 4h30m in Turner's www.trailjournals.com entry. |
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Post by throwerbt on Apr 13, 2012 10:17:43 GMT -5
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Post by bsulli on Jul 26, 2016 17:10:57 GMT -5
Is the 22:40 still the unsupported FKT?
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