The details are fuzzy but I will try to recap....
Congrats to everyone and thanks to Dougeh for organizing the before-party and to Tim (Bikehikeskifish) for those great seats at the ceremony!
This was my first time at the awards and I had a fun time. Seems like every time a name got called, I'd think, "Gee, he/she looks familiar!".
Special thanks to the Four Thousand Footers Committee for putting this on -- I spoke briefly to Erik Savage who said that the push really comes at the beginning of April as folks rush to send in their applications, and the Committee works hard to make sure everyone who sends in an application will be recognized at the ceremony. Its good to remember all the behind the scenes work that goes on!
I believe (someone please correct me..Tim
) that there were 250 all season NH4K finishers this year, somewhere in the ballpark of 22 NE67 finishers, about a dozen combined NH4k/NE4K finishers, maybe a dozen NEHH finishers (Go, MichaelJ!) and about 12 NE111ers to finish this year...as for "all on one peak" 4k finishers, I think there was actually only one this year!!!
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Winter lists --- very impressive! Al Dwyer, MarcHowes and Doc Ross stand out for completing some incredibly tough winter lists --way to go, guys!! I think you are going to have to put your heads together and come up with a new list that you can pursue!
Big congrats to Ed and Lauky -- Lauky got his all season 48 and Ed was recognized as having brought two dogs to completion! Go ED!
We've done a little tabulating and figure we don't have too many peaks to get Terra her all season 48 patch -- the completer dog #100 is open so maybe we'll give it a go! We'll see what she thinks....
Good job to everyone!!! Hope to see some of you on the trails again soon!
