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Re: Oldest thru hiker to complete the JMT?

Owen Davis is his name. He turned ten in April of 1982. We started
from Happy Isles on Aug 1, 1982 and finished at Whitney Portal on Aug
25, 1982. We spent Friday the 13th in Muir Hut on Muir Pass with a
High School group from San Diego. They were doing the North Lake
South Lake loop and one of the kids was blind, that should be some
kind of recore too.

If you go back to message #175 I recount our trip on a day by day
basis. It turned out that in 1999 the dates fell on the same days so
each day I posted what we had done on that day and date 17 years
earlier.

> hmdsierra, your son is current youngest JMT thru hike record holder.
If you
> want to give me a first name and initial, plus age, and year
completed, I'll
> add that info to my JMT records. You can email me off list if you want:
> rbalcorn at gmail.com






Sun Oct 5, 2008 5:50 am

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Someone asked me this the other day and I realized I had no idea. Anyone have any suggestions for oldest man to thru hike it, oldest woman, youngest child,...
Ralph Alcorn
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Oct 3, 2008
8:43 pm

This guy Nomad has to be up there amoung the oldest hiker on the JMT.  Last Summer on June 22, I was at TM and I heard of PCT'ers spotted him hiking the...
sim ong
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Oct 3, 2008
8:58 pm

Ralph your web site provides the information that the age must be greater than or equal to the age of that who has done the whole PCT (except that part of the...
Roleigh Martin
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Oct 3, 2008
9:01 pm

My Son and I hiked the entire trail from YV to Whitney Portal when he was 10 years old. We were out 25 days, hiked 23 and had 2 layover days, the first at...
hmdsierra
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Oct 4, 2008
6:57 am

Thanks for all the responses. We met Nomad while we were hiking the PCT in Oregon this year. We compared ages, and I'm a few months older. What I was thinking...
Ralph Alcorn
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Oct 4, 2008
7:26 pm

Owen Davis is his name. He turned ten in April of 1982. We started from Happy Isles on Aug 1, 1982 and finished at Whitney Portal on Aug 25, 1982. We spent...
hmdsierra
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Oct 5, 2008
5:50 am

Belated congratulations to Owen. Hope he is still addicted to hiking. I added his record to my JMT page: www.backpack45.com/johnmuirtrail.html -- Ralph Alcorn ...
Ralph Alcorn
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Oct 5, 2008
6:28 pm

Hello Ralph––great site. Kinda wishin' I was out on the JMT right about now, or just loafing in Bishop, looking for coffee and a thumb ( hitching home is...
robert shattuck
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Oct 5, 2008
7:51 pm

A belated than you. I wonder what the record is for the youngest person to summit Mt. Whitney. Two years before we did JMT, Owen, then 8, my friend Gary and...
hmdsierra
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Oct 22, 2008
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Most completions? My first thought was that Scott Williamson has done 7/8ths of it 10 times, and a couple of people have yoyoed. However, a little googling...
Ralph Alcorn
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Oct 6, 2008
6:20 pm

Holy John Muir, Batman! and I thought eight was . . . well, now we need to break that down into pre or post-retirement. Ha. Guess I better keep going. ...
robert shattuck
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Oct 6, 2008
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