Nick Medica Nolan’s 14 attempt S-N

[RobLowe]

Nick started at 4am.

Blanks. 4:00am 0:00 0:00
Shavano 5:50am 1:50 1:50
Tab. 6:15am 0:25 2:15
Antero 8:35am 2:20 4:35
Prnctn. 1:18pm 4:43 9:18

Moving real well. Took a fall going off Tabeguache and is a bit gimpy from it. But dude is strong and fast. Should be a fun weekend watching the blue arrow and pacing.

His garmin is:

Share.garmin.com/medica

[zootloopz]

Let’s go Nick! Off to a great start.

[RobLowe]

Bump

Blanks. 4:00am 0:00 0:00
Shavano 5:50am 1:50 1:50
Tab. 6:15am 0:25 2:15
Antero 8:35am 2:20 4:35
Prnctn. 1:18pm 4:43 9:18
Avalnch 3:50pm 2:32 11:50

Heading into that first night.

[RobLowe]

Blanks. 4:00am 0:00 0:00
Shavano 5:50am 1:50 1:50
Tab. 6:15am 0:25 2:15
Antero 8:35am 2:20 4:35
Prnctn. 1:18pm 4:43 9:18
Avalnch 3:50pm 2:32 11:50
Yale 7:37pm 3:47 15:37

In good spirits. Looks really strong. Go Nick!

[RobLowe]

Update on Nick:

Blanks. 4:00am 0:00 0:00
Shavano 5:50am 1:50 1:50
Tab. 6:15am 0:25 2:15
Antero 8:35am 2:20 4:35
Prnctn. 1:18pm 4:43 9:18
Avalnch 3:50pm 2:32 11:50
Yale 7:37pm 3:47 15:37
Columbia 12:35am 4:58 20:35

Hitting all his splits.

[RobLowe]

Update on Nick:

Blanks. 4:00am 0:00 0:00
Shavano 5:50am 1:50 1:50
Tab. 6:15am 0:25 2:15
Antero 8:35am 2:20 4:35
Prnctn. 1:18pm 4:43 9:18
Avalnch 3:50pm 2:32 11:50
Yale 7:37pm 3:47 15:37
Columbia 12:35am 4:58 20:35
Harvard 3:56am 3:21 23:56

Halfway point peak-wise with 7 peaks down in under 24 hours. Has a day and a half to do the next 7 peaks. Great situation to be in.

[Peak200]

Wow he's kicking it

[Gulf_Coast_Hiker]

How much of this route is bushwacking versus established trails/routes? Thanks!

[justiner]

How much of this route is bushwacking versus established trails/routes? Thanks!

Surprisingly little bushwhacking - a lot of the off-trail travel is above treeline, and are getting pretty established as routes in of themselves. You really want to be beshwhacking as little as possible, so when the route chosen goes through such terrain, it's usually in a really steep section to get out of it, quickly.

The majority of the route is actually on trail - it's really just the connectors between trail systems or already established routes that make this line somewhat unique.

[justiner]

Nick is still doing well,

Blanks. 4:00am 0:00 0:00
Shavano 5:50am 1:50 1:50
Tab. 6:15am 0:25 2:15
Antero 8:35am 2:20 4:35
Prnctn. 1:18pm 4:43 9:18
Avalnch 3:50pm 2:32 11:50
Yale 7:37pm 3:47 15:37
Columbia 12:35am 4:58 20:35
Harvard 3:56am 3:21 23:56
Oxford ~11:04 ~31:05
Belford ~11:55am ~31:51

Nick was at the pace similar to Gary Robbins/Jared Campbell's successful run in 2019 @56:39 on Harvard, but have since slowed down a bit. Robbins was at 26hrs at Oxford compared to 31:05 for Nick. Rob, I believe you were around 31:00 as well at Oxford, so still a realistic pace, so long as Nick keeps it up.

Robbins/Campbell lost a ton of time between Missourio/Huron going what looks like all the way to the Missouri Gulch TH before Huron, so Nick has a good window to match their time once again.

[herdbull]

Looks like his tracker stopped about 6 hours ago

[Gulf_Coast_Hiker]

How much of this route is bushwacking versus established trails/routes? Thanks!

Surprisingly little bushwhacking - a lot of the off-trail travel is above treeline, and are getting pretty established as routes in of themselves. You really want to be beshwhacking as little as possible, so when the route chosen goes through such terrain, it's usually in a really steep section to get out of it, quickly.

The majority of the route is actually on trail - it's really just the connectors between trail systems or already established routes that make this line somewhat unique.

Great, thank you. I hiked Princeton a couple weeks ago and noticed the western ridge which Nick took up after coming from Antero. I'd love to have the time to do these kind of routes (not the whole Noland's route) but oh well.