Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens Challenge - Jul 24-26

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Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens Challenge - Jul 24-26

Post by tschalpi » July 29th, 2014, 4:27 am

Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens - Jul 24-26

On Thu, Jul 24, 10pm, I started the following challenge:
  • - Climb Mt. Adams (South Route, starting from the Cold Springs TH)
    - Run from Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens
    - Climb Mt. St. Helens (from Chocolate Falls)
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All of that nonstop, without sleep. I finished the challenge on Sat, Jul 26, in 38h17min. According to GoogleEarth, the entire route is about 90mi with over 30,000ft of EG. The run between Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens mainly led along the boundary trail #1. Sadly, motorcycles are allowed on this trail. Many sections are thus deeply rutted, which makes running hard.

Here's a short clip that documents the adventure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJtwLIj4DuM

I've uploaded the entire route to Strava: http://www.strava.com/activities/171389723
Note that Strava calculates its own distances, so they are slightly different from the original Suunto Ambit2 data. Also, the GPS was on a 60s interval to save battery, so it logs short. The Strava "Moving Time" does not consider any pace >20min/mi because the GPS was in run mode during the two climbs as well.
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Thanks pdxflowergirl and pdxberrychick for the support! The original idea for this epic adventure must be credited to pdxflowergirl.

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Re: Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens Challenge - Jul 24-26

Post by kepPNW » July 29th, 2014, 5:08 am

Words fail. We watched the video of this, your Hatfield challenge, and the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim-to-rim last night. In that order. By the time we were looking at the Grand Canyon run, that was looking a little puny! Talk about mind tricks. Gonna be pretty hard to top this one! Simply unbelievable... :)
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Re: Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens Challenge - Jul 24-26

Post by Eric Peterson » July 29th, 2014, 6:00 am

Kind of answers a question I had about that Boundary Trail. Did you encounter any moto cross bikes
as you were running to Helens? Seems like a lot of trails between Helens and Adams are multi use but
remote enough that maybe the bikes wouldn't be too bad.

Great hike/run idea and congrats on the most epiciest TR of all time ever posted on PH!! :D

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Re: Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens Challenge - Jul 24-26

Post by Jesse » July 29th, 2014, 7:03 am

The photo you posted at the top, showing an overview of the route, actually shows a line running south(left) to north(right) from Mt. Adams to Mt. Rainier.

The snowy, mountainous area in the middle (slightly closer to Rainier) are the Goat Rocks.

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Re: Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens Challenge - Jul 24-26

Post by tschalpi » July 29th, 2014, 7:15 am

Eric:
Kind of answers a question I had about that Boundary Trail. Did you encounter any moto cross bikes
as you were running to Helens? Seems like a lot of trails between Helens and Adams are multi use but
remote enough that maybe the bikes wouldn't be too bad.
I only saw two moto cross bikes and nobody else. I assume the weekends are different.

Jesse:
The photo you posted at the top, showing an overview of the route, actually shows a line running south(left) to north(right) from Mt. Adams to Mt. Rainier.
Ha, thanks for pointing that out! That was simply hand-drawn by me.

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Re: Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens Challenge - Jul 24-26

Post by sgyoung » July 29th, 2014, 12:29 pm

:shock: Nicely done! Congrats. That might be more elevation than I've done in my life condensed into <48 hours.

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Re: Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens Challenge - Jul 24-26

Post by 12XU » July 29th, 2014, 1:23 pm

Incredible trip. Thanks for sharing!

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Re: Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens Challenge - Jul 24-26

Post by drm » July 29th, 2014, 3:47 pm

Is there an established record for this?

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Re: Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens Challenge - Jul 24-26

Post by Sean Thomas » July 29th, 2014, 4:38 pm

I know I already said this like 3 times on your fb but you're a total badass dude :D And all that time on the motor bike trails!


Nice to see that you're family and friends are so supportive too, that makes it all the best! :)

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Re: Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens Challenge - Jul 24-26

Post by kepPNW » July 29th, 2014, 4:38 pm

drm wrote:Is there an established record for this?
I think there is now!
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