#24 | The White Mountain Single Year Grid... New Hampshire's 48 Four-Thousand Foot Peaks with Philip Carcia

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports:wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Philip Carcia is attempting to beat the fastest-known-time to complete the White Mountain Grid- hiking all 48 four thousand foot peaks in a single year. We talk all about what made him decide to commit to this insane project, and many of the struggles and successes he has had along the way. Philip has also completed the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, and many other trails around the country. Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Twitter, Instagram, or send me an email: trailtalespod@gmail.com If you're really into Trail Tales and want to receive some bonus content, please consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trailtales. Feel free to leave me a five-star review on iTunes (I read every one at the beginning of the next episode), and subscribe if you like the show! My personal Instagram is @kylehateshiking, so feel free to follow me on there as well. Subscribe on iTunes, and listen on Google Play and Stitcher!

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0:00.0	What's going on, everybody?
0:10.0	My name is Kyle O'Grady.
0:11.6	I am a through hiker and a peakbacker and an all-around hiking nerd.
0:16.3	And this is the podcast called Trail Tales.
0:19.6	I mean, you clicked on the episode so you know what it's called.
0:22.6	But no, this is the podcast where I chat with other through hikers and other peakbackers and other hiking nerds about their experiences on the trail.
0:31.3	Now, today's guest, I mean, this is, this is a big one, folks.
0:34.8	Today's guest is a man named Philip Karsha. He has done a number
0:39.9	of through hikes of the AT, the PCT, just to name a few. And currently, he is in the middle
0:45.8	of attempting to break the fastest known time for completing the White Mountain single year
0:53.0	grid, which if you're not familiar with that,
0:55.8	I mean, we talk all about it in the episode, but basically he's trying to climb all 48 of
1:00.1	the 4,000 foot peaks in the White Mountains in every single month for a year, and he's trying
1:05.9	to do it faster than anybody else has, and it's just, it's insane. I mean mean i say that so much during the episode but it's
1:12.2	absolutely insane and during our conversation we talk about why he decided to take on this crazy
1:19.2	project in the first place and we get into a bunch of stories about his struggles and his successes
1:24.8	at this point having completed well over half of the single year grid.
1:30.4	Philip is super, super humble about all of this, honestly, and he pretty much just put it all out
1:35.9	there, and it was a great conversation.
1:38.0	Philip, when you hear this, thank you again so much for taking the time out of your crazy
1:41.6	schedule.
1:42.4	I really, really appreciate it.
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