#37 | Completing the White Mountain Grid in Record Time with Philip Carcia

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Since we last spoke in Episode 24 of Trail Tales, Philip Carcia has gone on to offically take the fastest known time for the White Mountain Grid. Philip hiked each of the 48 4000-foot peaks in New Hampshire's White Mountains in each month... for an entire year. To finish off the project, he completed a White Mountain Direttissima, essentially thru-hiking the 48 peaks in one shot, finishing in just under 7 days. Impressive! In the episode, Philip reflects on the craziness that consumed the project since we had last spoken. He talks about the gnarly spring conditions he faced, how he got less than 10 hours of sleep over the course of the Direttissima, and what his life has looked a few weeks out from when he finished. Please consider making a donation of any size to the Trail Tales 46 Climbs team, raising money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: https://afsp.donordrive.com/participant/1975017 Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Twitter, Instagram, or send me an email: [email protected] 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. Welcome back to another episode of Trail Tales or just straight up welcome.
0:19.2	If this is your first time listening I've got a feeling
0:21.8	I'm going to have quite a few first time listeners this episode so yeah welcome and welcome back
0:27.3	my name is Kyle O'Grady I'm a through hiker I threw hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2018
0:33.2	I am a peak bagger I'm almost done peak bagging, the Northeast 115. I've just got a couple
0:39.2	peaks left. And this is the podcast where I chat with other peak baggers and other through
0:44.5	hikers and other hiking nerds just like myself every single week about their experiences on the
0:51.8	trail. If that sounds interesting to you, I encourage you to go back, listen
0:55.3	to some old episodes, and maybe hit that subscribe button. If you like what you hear, I would
1:00.3	greatly appreciate that. Folks, this is a big, big episode. Philip Karsha is back on the program.
1:09.7	The last time that we spoke spoke he was over halfway done the
1:14.8	single-year grid FKT attempt but he still had a lot of hiking to go I'm stoked to say
1:21.1	now he has finished it he has taken the fastest known time for the single year
1:27.0	grid in the White Mountains, which is so,
1:29.3	so amazing.
1:31.2	In this episode, I pretty much just take a seat and I let Philip tell his story of the
1:36.9	last couple months since we last spoke.
1:40.1	In our last conversation, I kind of made a comment about how spring was coming and I kind of implied that it was going to get a little bit easier the hiking was from then on out.
1:52.0	And boy was I wrong, he still went through a ton of stuff since we last talked.
1:58.0	And it was really, really amazing to hear about all of that I mean it
2:01.7	should go without saying that this is something that's incredibly difficult I
2:05.7	mean it's never been done as fast as he did it obviously but like holy shit
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