Ep. 604: Chasing Fastest Known Times - Jason Hardrath
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
After a serious car accident that left him with limited mobility in his leg, Jason decided he was done letting time slip by that wasn't in the pursuit of some higher goal in places he loved to be. This led him to pursue wilderness-based FKTs (Fastest Known Times). To date, Jason has 35 FKTs in some of the most iconic and beautiful places in the American West.
Many of those FKTs are on impressively difficult routes. The Cascade Trifecta, Rainier Infinity Loop, Crater Lake Circumnavigation, and Oregon's Five Highest are all FKT's Jason has under his belt.
Not bad for an elementary PE teacher having this level of adventures on school breaks and weekends.
Just imagine what you can do if you started trying.
Instagram: @jasonhardrath
fastestknowntime.com/athlete/jason-hardrath
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| 0:13.1 | Because I could easily get into that trap, too. |
| 0:15.1 | Like, I could be like, oh, man, Carl Egelhoff or Killian and Jornay. |
| 0:18.5 | Like, I'll never be that fast. |
| 0:19.7 | Like, why should I even try? I should just give up now. |
| 0:22.2 | You know, like, there's no happiness in comparison. |
| 0:25.1 | Happiness is in finding an experience that you feel is worth it for you and going for it. |
| 0:33.5 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet. |
| 0:39.2 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 0:43.5 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. Hey folks, happy Monday, and I hope you had a great weekend. |
| 1:02.8 | And thanks for listening to the show. |
| 1:04.6 | We have a great episode today. |
| 1:06.8 | It's a little longer than usual, but it's just so much good content. |
| 1:10.5 | Jason and I just really hit it off and started talking. |
| 1:13.6 | But Jason Hardrath is a PE teacher out in Oregon. |
| 1:16.7 | And in his free time, he does these fastest known time attempts on these incredibly interesting routes. |
| 1:26.1 | Like if you've ever been to Crater Lake, he did basically |
| 1:29.3 | circumnavigation of the lake along the ridge of the mountain peaks around the lake, and that's a |
| 1:36.3 | route that he has a record for. He lost it and then got it back, as you'll hear early in the discussion, |
| 1:41.3 | but he's done some just absolutely suffer fest of trips. He did the |
| 1:46.2 | cascade trifecta, which he holds the circumnavigation for, and I believe that's Baker, Mount |
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