100 Peaks in 50 Days with Jason Hardrath

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🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Jason Hardrath is a runner and mountaineer based in southern Oregon. In 2021, he broke the record for the fastest known time (FTK) to summit the 100 tallest peaks in Washington State known as the Bulger List— and he did it in only 50 days.

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0:00.0	One thing that athletics and physical pursuits give us is a medium to face these sort
0:09.3	of painful, suffer fest experiences and go, oh, how do I want to manage this?
0:15.7	What is that I'm learning here?
0:17.5	Who do I want to be in moments where I feel sleep deprived and fatigued and I haven't
0:22.3	eaten for 14 hours and ran out of water four hours ago?
0:27.1	It's like we get to sort of face the music of who we want to be and how we want to walk
0:32.5	through the hard moments in life.
0:39.4	Jason Hardrath is a runner and mountaineer based in Southern Oregon.
0:43.2	He currently holds over 100 records for being the fastest person to complete trails and
0:48.0	climb mountains around the country.
0:50.2	In fact, in 2021, he broke the record for the fastest known time to summit the 100 tallest
0:56.1	peaks in Washington State, known as the Bulger List.
1:00.1	Here's the wildest part.
1:01.5	It took Jason only 50 days to climb all 100 peaks.
1:05.6	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI Co-op Studios production.
1:18.2	From September through June, Jason works as a middle school teacher.
1:22.3	When summer rolls around, pretty much as soon as the bell rings, he heads outside to
1:26.2	pursue some ambitious adventures.
1:29.2	Setting records for running and climbing is the perfect outlet for Jason.
1:33.0	He's always been an outdoorsy guy and he needs to be moving, pretty much constantly.
1:40.2	Jason Hardrath, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:43.5	I'm really excited to be here, Shelby, I've been looking forward to this.
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