Ep. 856: FKT of the Sierra Peak Section List - Nathan Longhurst and Travis Soares
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Mountaineering: Nathan Longhurst and Travis Soares Fastest Sierra Peaks Section Finish – 247 Peaks, 1800+ Miles, 700k ft Elevation in Sierra Nevada. The Sierra Peaks Section is a list of 247 significant peaks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. We caught up with Nathan Longhurst and Travis Soares right as they were getting ready to enter Yosemite Valley for the some of the most epic terrain of the entire effort. Since this interview, they both independently finished the challenge and became the fastest people to do so with over 1,800 miles, 700,000 feet.
Retrace their efforts unfold in real-time on their website, sps2022.com.
They supported the Bishop Paiute Food Sovereignty Program through this adventure.
Travis’ Stats - @travis.soares
- 1890.25 miles
- 729,569 vertical feet
Nathan’s Stats - @nathan358
- 1928.25 miles
- 784,910 vertical feet
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, about a month ago, Nathan finished this challenge. |
| 0:19.2 | Travis is still out there finishing the list, |
| 0:21.0 | but we're talking to both of them today. |
| 0:23.1 | And what Nathan did was called the SPS list. |
| 0:26.1 | It's the Sierra Peak series, |
| 0:29.1 | and it's a list of 247 significant mountains |
| 0:33.5 | in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. |
| 0:36.5 | And all of these are pretty big mountains. |
| 0:41.6 | A lot of them, 12,000, 13,000, and 14,000 feet. Most of them, there's some that are smaller than that, |
| 0:47.9 | but not many. It's an enormous list. And very few people have even completed the list, much |
| 0:53.9 | less do it in record time. |
| 0:55.3 | But Nathan specifically finished on July 8th. |
| 1:00.8 | And also last year, if you remember, we had Jason Hardrath on to talk about his |
| 1:05.3 | journey to 100, the 100 highest peaks in Washington. |
| 1:09.2 | Nathan completed that list too. He did most of those peaks with Jason |
| 1:12.7 | and went back and finished the rest. And so Nathan did that with Jason on the Bulger's list back in |
| 1:20.8 | 2021. And now Travis is doing that with Nathan on the SPS list. So Travis is almost done. He's worked |
| 1:27.0 | his way through a ton of the mountains. |
| 1:28.9 | We're catching up with both of them right outside of Yosemite. They're about to enter Yosemite Valley |
| 1:34.6 | right before we talk. And so we're talking about that and we get into it. But they're getting |
| 1:40.5 | ready for a really big and really exciting section of the experience right when |
| 1:45.3 | we're talking. |
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