Ways to Hike the 48

[RoySwkr]

I'd like to overnight as close to the summit as is allowed. Spending some more time on the summit at sunset, midnight and dawn.

MB did camp as close as possible for most for his midnight round, even repeated 3 that he later discovered were illegal although he wasn't caught at the time

Don't know if he bothered with sunset and sunrise

 

[Trail Bandit]

I have taken a little liberty with the "Hike" part of this thread. On Sunday I went by air and visited all of the 4000 footers. Total elapsed time was 48 Min, 14 sec. Ok, I know I wasted fossil fuel, and perhaps disturbed the peace and quiet of the wilderness, but the views were great. I think the Cog Railway was puking out far more carbon than I ever could. Hopefully, I can get an assistant to photograph each summit as we go by. I think that with practice, we can break 45 minutes.

 

[Drumhaggart]

Touch and go?

I have taken a little liberty with the "Hike" part of this thread. On Sunday I went by air and visited all of the 4000 footers. Total elapsed time was 48 Min, 14 sec. Ok, I know I wasted fossil fuel, and perhaps disturbed the peace and quiet of the wilderness, but the views were great. I think the Cog Railway was puking out far more carbon than I ever could. Hopefully, I can get an assistant to photograph each summit as we go by. I think that with practice, we can break 45 minutes.

But did you land on each summit?

Steve

 

[mahony]

OK so this is a related question:

Does each 48 have to be unique for each "list" completion. IOW if I do my original 48 and I was wearing yellow for 10 of them, do I get credit for 48 in yellow by doing only the other 38 wearing yellow?

I guess the more realistic scenario is if I do 12 peaks each season for my original 48, do I only need to do 36 more in any season to get credit for the "48 in one season"?

 

[chinooktrail]

Mahony, recently I was in my doctors office (yeah, I know, me at the doctors, what a surprise!) and he was asking about some big scratches on my legs.

I had explained that I was bushwhacking the weekend before to try to finish my NEHH. We talked about that, and the '48'. He asked what kind of 'proof' you needed to document that you had actually done all 48.

I replied that it was an honor system.

He smiled and said 'Oh, in that case, I've done them all too!'

Long winded way of saying make up your own rules, and the only one you have to be truthful to is yourself!

 

[MichaelJ]

I guess the more realistic scenario is if I do 12 peaks each season for my original 48, do I only need to do 36 more in any season to get credit for the "48 in one season"?

If I understand your question correctly, yes. Another example is that if you do 47 in winter and 1 in summer, then you've completed your any-season 48. Go back and do that 1 in winter and you've completed your winter 48.

Edited "all" to "any" as Roy correctly notes.

 

[RoySwkr]

If I understand your question correctly, yes. Another example is that if you do 47 in winter and 1 in summer, then you've completed your all-season 48.

More correctly the any-season 48, you need 144 more for all seasons

 

[FARMER]

Jason and I did them in about a week on snowshoes

 

[Waumbek]

Did them pure Local's style, no doubling up, the first time (aka Trailwright's style); any old which way the subsequent times.