bobandgeri
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Congrats to Arlette Laan who just completed a Direttissima is 11 days 14 hrs! As far as I know she is the first female to do so.
Female Direttissima Completion !!
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Snowflea
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Wow, that's really cool. Thanks for posting! Nice to see more women doing this stuff!
Just checked the FKT site. Arlette plans to write up a trip report shortly...
http://fastestknowntime.proboards.com/thread/42/new-hampshire-4000-footers-nh?page=2
She is an experienced long-distance hiker with many (!) trail journals:
http://www.trailjournals.com/about.cfm?trailname=16154
Just checked the FKT site. Arlette plans to write up a trip report shortly...
http://fastestknowntime.proboards.com/thread/42/new-hampshire-4000-footers-nh?page=2
She is an experienced long-distance hiker with many (!) trail journals:
http://www.trailjournals.com/about.cfm?trailname=16154
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I believed I might have been the first female to complete this hike when I finished it on 8/22/14, so maybe there was another before me. Arlette definitely has the FKT, it took me 14 days. I also chose to do the hike self supported instead of unsupported. The shortest route I could come up with had me walking right through several places that accept maildrops: Lafayette CG, the Highland Ctr and the town of Gorham. So while I admire the independence and toughness shown by Mats Roing and Arlette, I took advantage of the resources available to me and had a really enjoyable hike. I also read Mats was turning down food offered to him? No way, if accepting food from day hikers is wrong when self supported, I don't want to be right! If it's free, I'm eating it. My rules for myself were hike all the miles and anything that was available to all hikers, I sent to myself, or serendipitous (think trail magic) was fair game. HYOH.
I think the Direttissima would be a great 3-4 week backpacking trip through the Whites and I hope these discussions will get more people out doing it. Anyone interested in doing something like the JMT, CO trail, etc. would most likely enjoy coming to do this. While I was hiking I'd heard stories of a few attempts at this trail by people trying to beat Mats' time, having a miserable time and quitting. I'd really like to see more people just go and hike this and complete it. It's fun. Although Cabot was a kind of an anti-climactic place to finish.
I think the Direttissima would be a great 3-4 week backpacking trip through the Whites and I hope these discussions will get more people out doing it. Anyone interested in doing something like the JMT, CO trail, etc. would most likely enjoy coming to do this. While I was hiking I'd heard stories of a few attempts at this trail by people trying to beat Mats' time, having a miserable time and quitting. I'd really like to see more people just go and hike this and complete it. It's fun. Although Cabot was a kind of an anti-climactic place to finish.
Arlette's full writeup is now posted:
http://arlettelaan.wordpress.com/
http://arlettelaan.wordpress.com/
Greg
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Remarkable! How many folk have done this, and do you usually resupply, such as at Pinkham?
richard
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That is truly impressive. I`m amazed. AWESOME.
