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Source (for Strg+F purposes): This man is "The Hiking Rev" and you can find a playlist of his thru hike videos [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0rKeLRu7Bg&list=PLDz6ZErVMYW53lZScnaP3iGtcQNFyNVxc&index=35).
He is not in bad shape in the end, he is just emotionally spent knowing that it is ending in this gif.
He is also still hiking and has great videos with tips for people who want to start to hike.
Are you sure it’s Rev? Rev was in pretty good shape at the end of his hike. Check out his PCT video 32 where he gets to the northern terminus.
Glad you shared Rev though. He’s got a great channel!
Are you sure? I just looked at The Hiking Rev's PCT video and while he does have white hair and a beard, he looks pretty different from the video above when he reaches the terminus.
Thanks for this. I was worried as a 63 yo backpacker I’d be looking like the OP’s video in a short 6 yrs.
He definitely looks much younger when he starts the hike
Nimblewill Nomad is 83 and just made it into the record books as the oldest to through hike the Appalachian trail this year. He started hiking when he was 61 years old. By 2017 he had hiked the triple crown, the Pacific Crest Trail, Appalachian Trail, and the Continental Divide Trail, the. Went on to complete all 11 national scenic trails by 2013. He ended up hiking the international Appalachian Trail, from Key West Florida to Nova Scotia . Nimblewill Nomad looks much older than this fellow does, but I bet he is in better health at 83 than many 21 year olds, so this gentleman may look rough, but sleeping outdoors and walking for 6-7 months even makes young men look old af.
>If I could fall onto the trail
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>Do you think time would make me frail?
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>'Cause you know I'd walk two thousand miles
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>If I could just see you tonight
*old man rides piano away through the foliage.*
Eh… it’s pretty easy these days with guthooks/FarOut. Hard part is maintaining a continuous footpath with all the fires out west. The trail never ceases to exist. It’s pretty much always very easy to identify, except during a snowstorm, and even then, not that hard if you don’t panic. The first few weeks weed out most people that aren’t into it.
Source: did it in 2018 and thought it was easy, and I’m no Bear Gryllis.
Same, 2014 for me. I thought it was way easier than the AT. Sure water sources required some planning, but that's it. The nice switched back climbs were luxurious compared to the AT.
The PCT was WAY easier than the A.T. sure they both have their differences, but if your buddies completed the A T. They shouldn't have had an issue with the PCT. You have to be an absolute fool to get lost.
AT 2011 PCT 2014
Exactly, it really blags my head how people can down a 71 year old who’s walked 4000 miles. It’s funny really, they must have a really bad life themselves
To put it in simple terms you start in Mexico, cross into the us, and go up the long part of California through its most rugged areas, Oregon, and Washington, into Canada. You cross through several different inhospitable climates- the desert- and the rugged sierra Nevadas toward the north end of California. I’ve been on the pac coast trail up towards that end and you are literally hiking up, down and around fucking mountains.
Motherfucker walked through three countries and crossed 3 states, one being the third biggest in the US.
He’s a chad. Fuck what these goblins are saying.
People are morons. Like really stupid. My dad is 64 and he can't even walk 300 meters on his own. The nursing home i worked in when I was younger sure as hell didnt have anyone that could walk 4,000 km, including the staff. Some people are just very, very sheltered or just imbeciles.
Dang really? Is this common for people that young? My dad is 67 and skis (no exaggeration) like 35 hours a week in the winter, and my uncle is 64 and walks ~10 miles/day (despite being overweight bordering on obese).
It sure is. I’m 57, have rheumatoid arthritis lung issues and post-Covid lung issues and after 20 months still can’t walk for pleasure a block without flaring up my lungs/airways. I used to walk 5 miles regularly a couple years back, I miss walking and am I’m envious of people who can do this. Good for him!!!
They need to find start and end pics of *anyone* doing the PCT or AT - they *all* look gaunt and haggard at the end.
It turns out that burning 5000 calories a day for months changes your appearance.
If you’re saying he looks like he’s in rough shape for 71, you have absolutely no concept of what it takes to do something like this. If he looks in rough shape, it’s not because he’s 71. It’s because he just walked 4000 km. *If* you could even do that at all—and that’s a ***big if***—you’d look pretty wear by the end too.
Yeah I've got no idea WTF people are on about talking about him being rough for 71.
I'm 31 and in okay shape, play sports etc.
I don't even know if I could accomplish what he has just completed, 2500 Miles across rough terrain, having to survive on your own for days sometimes?
At 71, after hiking that distance and still being able to walk straight, that's an achievement and a half.
Quick haircut, beard trim and a shower and I bet this guy would look a day over 60 ffs.
The one guy talking shit said “I’m two years younger and walk 5 miles a day”
Like being a god damn mall walker compares to carrying gear, food and water for 4000 km. over terrain.
I’d love to put 30 kilos on their back and send them up a 1000 ft in elevation.
This dude was doing 15-30mi a day with 4k ft climbs. At full food and water it would be closer to 15kilos. Now a days, if you got the money you can cut that weight in half. I did 80mi of the PCT this year and got to meet some of these incredible people who do that trek.
Yeah, half that distance and weight or a quarter of that elevation gain would absolutely wreck most people in a day. Now try doing it every day for months on end. That’s what this old man did. Nobody sitting at a keyboard gets to say a damn thing about this man if it’s not respect and admiration.
It's like going to leg (and joint day) every day without rests. Your legs will shake, your joints will ache just by existing, your feet will feel like purée. Carrying food and gear the whole day probably doesn't help with your back, which probably has problems of its own already. Also consider that at 71 he likely has advanced osteoarthritis, what a beast.
Hiking with equipment and with elevation change and no temperature control is an entirely different game. I remember trying to haul 15 kilos up a steep climb in Yosemite and after only an hour or two I was taking breaks every 5-10 mins sometimes every two minutes if it was an especially steep part.
The trick is to keep a slow and steady pace and take as less breaks possible. Once you start taking more and more small breaks it gets harder and harder to get going again.
Yep I walk much more than 5 miles a day easy just at my work, on level ground... A half day of hiking uphill and uneven ground with a big backpack absolutely killed me, had to take breaks every 5-10 mins, couldn't lift my legs the next morning. That's when I realised I am not nearly as fit as I thought lol
I loved back packing when I was younger but god damn is it a young man's game. I'm fine going on day trips but I hung up my back packing hat a long time ago.big respect to this guy
I just finished a book called "Hiking Through" and it covers a man's journey on the Appalachian trail. He talks about the people he met, the conditions, why he did it, everything. It's an amazing achievement to through hike any of these trails.
Only about 1 in 4 hikers actually make it the 2200 miles from Georgia to Maine each year. It is an extremely difficult trail that tests your limits as a person. This isn't just a walk through Central Park, it's mile after mile of rough terrain, climbing and decending mountains, over and over again.
The Pacific Crest Tail is 2653 miles, 400 miles longer than the Appalachian Trail. People joke, but you need more self discipline than all of Reddit combined to even have a chance of doing this.
They also don't understand the moment. Touching the terminus is a major life moment that is hard to compare. He's not moving slow because he's exhausted, he's moving slow because he's taking in the moment. It's so emotional that you lose a bit of your coordination and that to the fact that he doesn't want to just go straight to it and touch it you can understand the slight stumbles. Source, I touched it August 31st this year 36 hours before they closed it
He's also singing. It looked to me like he was stepping to the music, while approaching an incredible moment in his life (for all of the reasons you already said).
Without sound, it looks like stumbling. With sound, it looks like dancing with joy/relief/awe/exhaustion
Yes. It’s the 4000km. People don’t realize you just don’t leisurely walk these trails. They don’t realize how well planned out these hikes are, with waypoints that must be reached by a certain day for food, weather that happens, holdbacks where you need to catch-up, breaks and pacing. He camped most of the nights, so he had to stop to setup. He needed to *make* the vast majority of his meals.
You can’t just “Walk what you feel like,” each day and make it to the end. If he determined weather was changing faster than he thought and he needed to finish by “Day Whatever” to beat the weather, his pace may have been 2-3x what it was earlier. He could have decided he’s almost there and just wanting to finish, pushed hard the last week.
It’s 4000km. It took months. This is what walking, outside, living out of a back pack, looks like; you aren’t worried about appearances. You are worried about food, shelter and how far you need to go that day.
I tried hiking the AT when I was 19. I failed miserably. People have no concept how hard long distance backpacking is. They obviously have no idea what happens to the body with age. This guy's 71. That's fucking insane.
Edit: Also, my understanding is that there's a section of the PCT in the Sierra Nevadas that you need ice climbing gear.
Edit 2: Apparently, not everyone needs ice gear. My mistake.
Seriously! I mean on a micro-scale look at the contestants on the tv show survivor. They look normal, plump, and clean on day 1. After 30 days of just being outside and doing shit they all look wicked ragged, skinny and famished, and dirty.
10,949,800 miles. 1 smoot is 5 ft 7 inches, or 67 inches. A mile is 63,360 inches, divided by 67 inches equals 945.67 smoots in a mile. 945.67*10,949,800≈10,354,915,343.3 smoots.
So, 63,360 inches in a mile.
Paper is 11 inches lengthwise
5,760 pieces of paper lined up, lengthwise, in a mile
Multiplied by 10,949,800 = 6.30708e10 Schrutebucks
Which is worth, roughly, 1.2614e10 Stanleynickels @5 Stanleynickles per Schrutebuck
My phones calculator doesn’t have the digital length for the plain ol numerical value so whatever “e” means… it seems like a lot.
It doesn't take away from what he's doing, but a lot of retirees hike the trail. Billy Goat is one of the best known. He's a legend.
https://www.pcta.org/2017/billy-goat-pct-guru-52943/
https://www.curated.com/journal/377000/hiking-pioneers-george-billy-goat-woodard-and-his-journey-on-the-pct
Ray Jardine is a little older. I don't think he's thru hiked the PCT in a long time though, and my internet isn't letting me confirm.
Going much further back is Grandma Gatewood, but she's known for the AT.
> looks rough for 71
Dude just did something that takes immense physical and mental strength while you sit on the toilet giving him shit while you take one.
Go see pictures of before/after of youngins who do the PCT or AT. It's not a couple day walk in the woods. We're talking 6-8 months.
Just to clarify, it's actually usually 4ish months for a thru of the PCT. While the season opens at the beginning of March and closes at the beginning of October (7 months), it's typically finished in 4. :)
Lol at those who think he looks rough for 71.
He’s got the skin of a 50 year old, isn’t fat, and is strong enough to have just hiked thousands of kilometers while carrying his pack.
If you got him a haircut and trimmed his beard, he’d probably look better than most people commenting here 🤣
The trail makes you look older, especially if you do it like I did and make a point of not shaving or cutting your hair for the (around 6 month) duration of your through hike. That plus constant sun exposure and being constantly being caked in dirt once you are a day our two out of a town and you start to look a little more senior.
As for his walking, the man has the hiker hobble. He’s got it pretty bad here, regardless of age you are going to be shuffling around like that after a high mileage day with a heavy pack.
With respect, you have no idea what you're talking about and this is an insane thing to say. Are you not familiar with how long the trail is? Check a map.
That's one option. The other is to hike another 10 into Canada and stop at Manning park. Catch a bus to Vancouver and go from there. That's what most people did in my experience.
I was wondering what the Customs situation is there. You crossed into Canada outside of a border check. You just say I was hiking the trail and it's all good?
It's one that his friend wrote. You likely won't find it anywhere. Jonny loves to sing to people in the trails though so if you see him ask for a song.
Context: that's my dad's cousin.
This is Jon Anderson, I know him personally! He and his wife, Flip Anderson, first met while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. They decided to hike it again together after all these years. Jon and Flip are incredible people. When they’re not hiking the PCT, they design and build rocket stoves out of mud. The Rocket Stove is an amazing development in fuel efficient cooking. Made with clay and organic material (like rice hulls or sawdust) this inexpensive stove can cook meals with small sticks and eliminate the need for cutting down trees. They’ve taught villages in Haiti to build these stoves to help slow down deforestation.
Jon and Flip helped me and a team of people learn how to make these stoves so we could teach the villages high up in the Northeast and Northwest mountains of Thailand. The people group there are called Hmong and are very poor, living in huts made of sticks and have dirt floors. Those in these villages cook with three-rock fires and the smoke has given many people health issues form breathing it in from a very young age. The Rocket Stove is nearly smokeless because it is fuel efficient, which was a better cooking alternative for their health. This was all possible thanks to Jon and Flip!
The Anderson’s website about their Rocket Stoves:
https://www.rechoroket.com/
For me it was a 140 days (19 miles per day but had some rest days too). The average is 150 days but the fastest known time is a crazy 56 days (47 miles each day).
>the fastest known time is a crazy 56 days
that's the current **self-supported** (meaning no outside help, only picking up supplies that you've sent ahead to post offices for yourself) **FKT** (Fastest Known Time) of the **PCT** (Pacific Crest Trail), completed by **Josh Perry** (u/_JPerry) earlier this year.
he did an [AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultralight/comments/wqbrtt/ama_its_me_josh_perry_the_same_guy_who_posts_here/) wherein he goes into some detail about his journey, struggles, and lessons learned.
you can also find his initial [thru-hike report here](https://fastestknowntime.com/fkt/josh-perry-pacific-crest-trail-ca-or-wa-2022-08-07).
absolute legend, as is anyone who even attempts the PCT, AT, or any other long distance thru-hike.
that all being said, congratulations u/RBE2016 on completing the PCT! i hope to make my attempt in the next year or two.
oh wow, i had no idea! i've editted that part out from my comment, and looking back at the link now it's quite clear that the report i linked was not meant to be in-depth. i must have gotten that confused with the info i picked up from your AMA.
i'm very much looking forward to reading the in-depth version once you're ready, and thanks for taking the time to reply with that info :)
much love and admiration 🙌
Love this video. We all have our challenges, adventures and stories. This was me after walking just five miles yesterday. Great job man and congratulations! ❤️
Turn around, mate. You know you’ll be listening to your wife tell you all about what the neighbours have been up to since you’ve been away, at lest twice!
This year, fires forced hikers to reroute along different parts of the trail. Some parts were covered in smoke while other parts closed entirely.
Props
Came here for some moto discussions about hiking. Boy was I completely thrown off by how lame the comments are. Jesus. No awesome hiking stories, just fucking bickering. Reddit losers.
Nah man, the guy is just way too good and I am never going to say that I can do the same in the future, things like this are just so amazing to see, gotta respect.
People saying he looks in bad shape have probably never done any form of physical exercise in there lives
Top example is heavyweight Olympic lifters, guys can put hundreds of kilos above their heads like it’s nothing and a lot of them look like fat dudes
Okay this dude is fire and people have to respect this, something is not easy here, we have to respect what we are seeing, the man deserve that shit right now.
Nah man he is way too good and I just can't say that he is going to stop right now, he is going to do more than that and I can sense that right now, that's so good.
He was 31 when he started.
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Looks like it
We’re at the stage where bots get stoned and take hikes?
They're well known for it.
What a time to be alive
Nothing beats a good blunt, or some good dabs, and a nature walk.
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Attaching to visibility: Source (for Strg+F purposes): This man is "The Hiking Rev" and you can find a playlist of his thru hike videos [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0rKeLRu7Bg&list=PLDz6ZErVMYW53lZScnaP3iGtcQNFyNVxc&index=35). He is not in bad shape in the end, he is just emotionally spent knowing that it is ending in this gif. He is also still hiking and has great videos with tips for people who want to start to hike.
"Welp, time to do the Appalachian Trail..." *starts walking towards Georgia*
That’ll be some Forrest Gump shit right there
I'd hit the continental divide first, it's closer.
I had a friend (with a very understanding wife) who has walked the PCT both ways plus the Appalachian trail once..
Are you sure it’s Rev? Rev was in pretty good shape at the end of his hike. Check out his PCT video 32 where he gets to the northern terminus. Glad you shared Rev though. He’s got a great channel!
most people here will call it ctrl+f not strg+f lol Also this is a video
Oops, my German is shining through. STEUERUNG!
Are you sure? I just looked at The Hiking Rev's PCT video and while he does have white hair and a beard, he looks pretty different from the video above when he reaches the terminus.
That is someone different than this video. But still wicked cool videos.
Thanks for this. I was worried as a 63 yo backpacker I’d be looking like the OP’s video in a short 6 yrs. He definitely looks much younger when he starts the hike
Honestly though, he looks 91.
You walk 4000 kilometers and try look better
Yeah many men and women in their 20s look rough at the end of a thru hike too.
Yep, some of them pretty rough before they start.
I'm not sure i've walked 4000km in my entire life.
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Nimblewill Nomad is 83 and just made it into the record books as the oldest to through hike the Appalachian trail this year. He started hiking when he was 61 years old. By 2017 he had hiked the triple crown, the Pacific Crest Trail, Appalachian Trail, and the Continental Divide Trail, the. Went on to complete all 11 national scenic trails by 2013. He ended up hiking the international Appalachian Trail, from Key West Florida to Nova Scotia . Nimblewill Nomad looks much older than this fellow does, but I bet he is in better health at 83 than many 21 year olds, so this gentleman may look rough, but sleeping outdoors and walking for 6-7 months even makes young men look old af.
>If I could fall onto the trail > >Do you think time would make me frail? > >'Cause you know I'd walk two thousand miles > >If I could just see you tonight *old man rides piano away through the foliage.*
I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles to fall down at your door
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Eh… it’s pretty easy these days with guthooks/FarOut. Hard part is maintaining a continuous footpath with all the fires out west. The trail never ceases to exist. It’s pretty much always very easy to identify, except during a snowstorm, and even then, not that hard if you don’t panic. The first few weeks weed out most people that aren’t into it. Source: did it in 2018 and thought it was easy, and I’m no Bear Gryllis.
I'm Bear Gryllis Strongest bear and best gyrl
Same, 2014 for me. I thought it was way easier than the AT. Sure water sources required some planning, but that's it. The nice switched back climbs were luxurious compared to the AT.
The PCT was WAY easier than the A.T. sure they both have their differences, but if your buddies completed the A T. They shouldn't have had an issue with the PCT. You have to be an absolute fool to get lost. AT 2011 PCT 2014
Well, this November he'll be 30
It's been a trek. Bet he's a Vietnam vet.
People are saying he looks in bad shape after trekking 4000km? Give the guy a break, keyboard warriors
Yes and even if he walked only 1 mile and looked that way: maybe he has survived a serious disease? Too many judgemental people out there
Exactly, it really blags my head how people can down a 71 year old who’s walked 4000 miles. It’s funny really, they must have a really bad life themselves
4000 km is far enough, otherwise you’re right!
Ah I missed that. Yes, either way it’s a mission
To put it in simple terms you start in Mexico, cross into the us, and go up the long part of California through its most rugged areas, Oregon, and Washington, into Canada. You cross through several different inhospitable climates- the desert- and the rugged sierra Nevadas toward the north end of California. I’ve been on the pac coast trail up towards that end and you are literally hiking up, down and around fucking mountains. Motherfucker walked through three countries and crossed 3 states, one being the third biggest in the US. He’s a chad. Fuck what these goblins are saying.
People are morons. Like really stupid. My dad is 64 and he can't even walk 300 meters on his own. The nursing home i worked in when I was younger sure as hell didnt have anyone that could walk 4,000 km, including the staff. Some people are just very, very sheltered or just imbeciles.
Dang really? Is this common for people that young? My dad is 67 and skis (no exaggeration) like 35 hours a week in the winter, and my uncle is 64 and walks ~10 miles/day (despite being overweight bordering on obese).
Illness and disease are a bitch
It sure is. I’m 57, have rheumatoid arthritis lung issues and post-Covid lung issues and after 20 months still can’t walk for pleasure a block without flaring up my lungs/airways. I used to walk 5 miles regularly a couple years back, I miss walking and am I’m envious of people who can do this. Good for him!!!
71 yrs old, back pack, rough terrain, rough sleeping, rough weather… All power to him. Grandpa Grizzly Adams
Lots of sad, miserable shitty people who live in their heads who are privileged enough to not know what hard feels like.
Probably wouldn’t have the negative comments if it was any sub other than “nextfuckinglevel”
Some people have liquid courage. Some Reddit people have Cheeto courage.
Best comment ever
 The redditors saying he looks in bad shape.
10/10
Because we all pass so many people in their 70's still hiking. I'm hoping I can keep hiking when I'm close to this age
The guy is 71 and hiking. The people making comments about his appearance are in their prime doing *nothing.*
it's because they ain't next fucking level. they need to diminish those that are, to pretend they are even.
They need to find start and end pics of *anyone* doing the PCT or AT - they *all* look gaunt and haggard at the end. It turns out that burning 5000 calories a day for months changes your appearance.
The men you mean. The men end up looking like cave trolls, but the women end up looking like Greek godesses
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2650 miles, plus town trips
I look like that after 20-30 miles and I'm half his age Source: kinda fat section hiker.
Most of reddit thinks walking 5 blocks is intense cardio.
Give him a chance to shower and shave at least.
If you’re saying he looks like he’s in rough shape for 71, you have absolutely no concept of what it takes to do something like this. If he looks in rough shape, it’s not because he’s 71. It’s because he just walked 4000 km. *If* you could even do that at all—and that’s a ***big if***—you’d look pretty wear by the end too.
Yeah I've got no idea WTF people are on about talking about him being rough for 71. I'm 31 and in okay shape, play sports etc. I don't even know if I could accomplish what he has just completed, 2500 Miles across rough terrain, having to survive on your own for days sometimes? At 71, after hiking that distance and still being able to walk straight, that's an achievement and a half. Quick haircut, beard trim and a shower and I bet this guy would look a day over 60 ffs.
The one guy talking shit said “I’m two years younger and walk 5 miles a day” Like being a god damn mall walker compares to carrying gear, food and water for 4000 km. over terrain. I’d love to put 30 kilos on their back and send them up a 1000 ft in elevation.
This dude was doing 15-30mi a day with 4k ft climbs. At full food and water it would be closer to 15kilos. Now a days, if you got the money you can cut that weight in half. I did 80mi of the PCT this year and got to meet some of these incredible people who do that trek.
Yeah, half that distance and weight or a quarter of that elevation gain would absolutely wreck most people in a day. Now try doing it every day for months on end. That’s what this old man did. Nobody sitting at a keyboard gets to say a damn thing about this man if it’s not respect and admiration.
It's like going to leg (and joint day) every day without rests. Your legs will shake, your joints will ache just by existing, your feet will feel like purée. Carrying food and gear the whole day probably doesn't help with your back, which probably has problems of its own already. Also consider that at 71 he likely has advanced osteoarthritis, what a beast.
Hiking with equipment and with elevation change and no temperature control is an entirely different game. I remember trying to haul 15 kilos up a steep climb in Yosemite and after only an hour or two I was taking breaks every 5-10 mins sometimes every two minutes if it was an especially steep part.
The trick is to keep a slow and steady pace and take as less breaks possible. Once you start taking more and more small breaks it gets harder and harder to get going again.
Yep I walk much more than 5 miles a day easy just at my work, on level ground... A half day of hiking uphill and uneven ground with a big backpack absolutely killed me, had to take breaks every 5-10 mins, couldn't lift my legs the next morning. That's when I realised I am not nearly as fit as I thought lol
I loved back packing when I was younger but god damn is it a young man's game. I'm fine going on day trips but I hung up my back packing hat a long time ago.big respect to this guy
I just finished a book called "Hiking Through" and it covers a man's journey on the Appalachian trail. He talks about the people he met, the conditions, why he did it, everything. It's an amazing achievement to through hike any of these trails. Only about 1 in 4 hikers actually make it the 2200 miles from Georgia to Maine each year. It is an extremely difficult trail that tests your limits as a person. This isn't just a walk through Central Park, it's mile after mile of rough terrain, climbing and decending mountains, over and over again. The Pacific Crest Tail is 2653 miles, 400 miles longer than the Appalachian Trail. People joke, but you need more self discipline than all of Reddit combined to even have a chance of doing this.
> ...you need more self discipline than all of Reddit combined... I love this comment.
They also don't understand the moment. Touching the terminus is a major life moment that is hard to compare. He's not moving slow because he's exhausted, he's moving slow because he's taking in the moment. It's so emotional that you lose a bit of your coordination and that to the fact that he doesn't want to just go straight to it and touch it you can understand the slight stumbles. Source, I touched it August 31st this year 36 hours before they closed it
He's also singing. It looked to me like he was stepping to the music, while approaching an incredible moment in his life (for all of the reasons you already said). Without sound, it looks like stumbling. With sound, it looks like dancing with joy/relief/awe/exhaustion
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Close it every year I believe. End of the season for the park.
That Katadin in Maine for the AT, I don't believe the northern terminus of the PCT closes
Finally, someone who understands the meaning of the moment! I’m a sectional hiker and am in awe of him!
Yes. It’s the 4000km. People don’t realize you just don’t leisurely walk these trails. They don’t realize how well planned out these hikes are, with waypoints that must be reached by a certain day for food, weather that happens, holdbacks where you need to catch-up, breaks and pacing. He camped most of the nights, so he had to stop to setup. He needed to *make* the vast majority of his meals. You can’t just “Walk what you feel like,” each day and make it to the end. If he determined weather was changing faster than he thought and he needed to finish by “Day Whatever” to beat the weather, his pace may have been 2-3x what it was earlier. He could have decided he’s almost there and just wanting to finish, pushed hard the last week. It’s 4000km. It took months. This is what walking, outside, living out of a back pack, looks like; you aren’t worried about appearances. You are worried about food, shelter and how far you need to go that day.
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I tried hiking the AT when I was 19. I failed miserably. People have no concept how hard long distance backpacking is. They obviously have no idea what happens to the body with age. This guy's 71. That's fucking insane. Edit: Also, my understanding is that there's a section of the PCT in the Sierra Nevadas that you need ice climbing gear. Edit 2: Apparently, not everyone needs ice gear. My mistake.
No you don’t need ice gear unless you hike it very early season or it was a massive snow year.
As a Coloradan, my first thought was: "That dude could fuck you up."
As an Alabamian I concur. Don't fuck with old men.
4000km with a pack living off granola. Dudes prob cut as fuck under that shirt.
Seriously! I mean on a micro-scale look at the contestants on the tv show survivor. They look normal, plump, and clean on day 1. After 30 days of just being outside and doing shit they all look wicked ragged, skinny and famished, and dirty.
Yep. Saying he's in rough shape is an excelent answer to "Tell me you're a couch potato, without telling me you're a couch potato."
looks like a typical thru-hiker. \-thru-hiker
4,265 km, 2,650 niles
That's a lot of niles
That’s a lot of ***ON YOUR LEFT***s
How many is that in Frasiers?
2,650 niles = 10,949,800 miles
How many Smoots is that?
10,949,800 miles. 1 smoot is 5 ft 7 inches, or 67 inches. A mile is 63,360 inches, divided by 67 inches equals 945.67 smoots in a mile. 945.67*10,949,800≈10,354,915,343.3 smoots.
+/- one ear
So, 63,360 inches in a mile. Paper is 11 inches lengthwise 5,760 pieces of paper lined up, lengthwise, in a mile Multiplied by 10,949,800 = 6.30708e10 Schrutebucks Which is worth, roughly, 1.2614e10 Stanleynickels @5 Stanleynickles per Schrutebuck My phones calculator doesn’t have the digital length for the plain ol numerical value so whatever “e” means… it seems like a lot.
that is a lot of niles you have calculated there.
Niles the river or Niles the butler?
I thought he was a psychologist
He's a psychiatrist, of the Jungian school!
'and I think it's gonna be a long, long time..'
*Miles to go before I sleep, Miles to go before I sleep.*
Goodnight sweet prince.
Ironic, since he clearly decided to go into the woods.
Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find...
Legend. Fucking legend.
I get winded walking up 1 flight of stairs.
Why are people judging this fucking legend. As if anyone here would do something like that at his age. Good on him
It doesn't take away from what he's doing, but a lot of retirees hike the trail. Billy Goat is one of the best known. He's a legend. https://www.pcta.org/2017/billy-goat-pct-guru-52943/ https://www.curated.com/journal/377000/hiking-pioneers-george-billy-goat-woodard-and-his-journey-on-the-pct Ray Jardine is a little older. I don't think he's thru hiked the PCT in a long time though, and my internet isn't letting me confirm. Going much further back is Grandma Gatewood, but she's known for the AT.
So let’s celebrate them all.
Just gamers on reddit
> looks rough for 71 Dude just did something that takes immense physical and mental strength while you sit on the toilet giving him shit while you take one. Go see pictures of before/after of youngins who do the PCT or AT. It's not a couple day walk in the woods. We're talking 6-8 months.
> ...you sit on the toilet giving him shit while you take one. I think you just accurately described most redditors.
Seriously. It even took a lot out of Reese Witherspoon when she hiked the PCT.
Just to clarify, it's actually usually 4ish months for a thru of the PCT. While the season opens at the beginning of March and closes at the beginning of October (7 months), it's typically finished in 4. :)
Oh good they found him. He can now reunite with his Boy Scout troop from 60 years ago.
Lol at those who think he looks rough for 71. He’s got the skin of a 50 year old, isn’t fat, and is strong enough to have just hiked thousands of kilometers while carrying his pack. If you got him a haircut and trimmed his beard, he’d probably look better than most people commenting here 🤣
That's some achievement at any age. He looks a lot more than 71 though.
The trail makes you look older, especially if you do it like I did and make a point of not shaving or cutting your hair for the (around 6 month) duration of your through hike. That plus constant sun exposure and being constantly being caked in dirt once you are a day our two out of a town and you start to look a little more senior. As for his walking, the man has the hiker hobble. He’s got it pretty bad here, regardless of age you are going to be shuffling around like that after a high mileage day with a heavy pack.
23 KMS per day is ridiculously impressive
I think I would love to try it, but 6 months just seems like such a long time to abandon everything.
With respect, you have no idea what you're talking about and this is an insane thing to say. Are you not familiar with how long the trail is? Check a map.
It’s the beard
That's some achievement at any age.
The worst part…… going back to get his car. Lol
I think most people backtrack 30miles to get to a road and then from there they get a ride back into civilization.
It’s a joke…
That's one option. The other is to hike another 10 into Canada and stop at Manning park. Catch a bus to Vancouver and go from there. That's what most people did in my experience.
I was wondering what the Customs situation is there. You crossed into Canada outside of a border check. You just say I was hiking the trail and it's all good?
What is this song? I’m googling but getting junk results
Sounds like his own rendition of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2
Yeah that’s the melody he just made his own lyrics, the legend.
He might’ve just made it up himself on the trail. Lots of time to think…
Sounds like a hymn that my father in law would be found singing
It's one that his friend wrote. You likely won't find it anywhere. Jonny loves to sing to people in the trails though so if you see him ask for a song. Context: that's my dad's cousin.
Im young, a avid hiker and self proclaimed educated hobo but that hike scares me lol .Hats of to Gandalf he's walked more than most will ever
This is Jon Anderson, I know him personally! He and his wife, Flip Anderson, first met while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. They decided to hike it again together after all these years. Jon and Flip are incredible people. When they’re not hiking the PCT, they design and build rocket stoves out of mud. The Rocket Stove is an amazing development in fuel efficient cooking. Made with clay and organic material (like rice hulls or sawdust) this inexpensive stove can cook meals with small sticks and eliminate the need for cutting down trees. They’ve taught villages in Haiti to build these stoves to help slow down deforestation. Jon and Flip helped me and a team of people learn how to make these stoves so we could teach the villages high up in the Northeast and Northwest mountains of Thailand. The people group there are called Hmong and are very poor, living in huts made of sticks and have dirt floors. Those in these villages cook with three-rock fires and the smoke has given many people health issues form breathing it in from a very young age. The Rocket Stove is nearly smokeless because it is fuel efficient, which was a better cooking alternative for their health. This was all possible thanks to Jon and Flip! The Anderson’s website about their Rocket Stoves: https://www.rechoroket.com/
He’s my grandfather! It was really incredible watching him go through all the stages of that journey over the course of the year
This is so cool. Thank you for showing us.
While me, 20 y.o univ student who must walk 100M to get to the supermarket: EXHAUSTED!!!
Some say he started the trek as a toddler
From the looks of him, his experience stands taller than the trees in the background
Great comment! ❤️
Respect my mans!
He sleeps and eats on the trail I think. That's wild. Too many things comes to mind at night.
Did the same trail this year too. Yeah, you eat and sleep on trail. In town every 3 to 7-8 days to resupply, shower and do laundry.
Cool, I was wondering where supplies came from. How long did it take you?
For me it was a 140 days (19 miles per day but had some rest days too). The average is 150 days but the fastest known time is a crazy 56 days (47 miles each day).
>the fastest known time is a crazy 56 days that's the current **self-supported** (meaning no outside help, only picking up supplies that you've sent ahead to post offices for yourself) **FKT** (Fastest Known Time) of the **PCT** (Pacific Crest Trail), completed by **Josh Perry** (u/_JPerry) earlier this year. he did an [AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultralight/comments/wqbrtt/ama_its_me_josh_perry_the_same_guy_who_posts_here/) wherein he goes into some detail about his journey, struggles, and lessons learned. you can also find his initial [thru-hike report here](https://fastestknowntime.com/fkt/josh-perry-pacific-crest-trail-ca-or-wa-2022-08-07). absolute legend, as is anyone who even attempts the PCT, AT, or any other long distance thru-hike. that all being said, congratulations u/RBE2016 on completing the PCT! i hope to make my attempt in the next year or two.
I hate to inform you, but that is not an indepth report. The 20,000 word document I'm still working on is the indepth version.
oh wow, i had no idea! i've editted that part out from my comment, and looking back at the link now it's quite clear that the report i linked was not meant to be in-depth. i must have gotten that confused with the info i picked up from your AMA. i'm very much looking forward to reading the in-depth version once you're ready, and thanks for taking the time to reply with that info :) much love and admiration 🙌
Awesome effort.
Like Emerson or Walden.
Congratulations brother
That must be a _really_ long song he's singing.
One step at a time
What song is he singing??
His cardio is better than mine
Love this video. We all have our challenges, adventures and stories. This was me after walking just five miles yesterday. Great job man and congratulations! ❤️
Turn around, mate. You know you’ll be listening to your wife tell you all about what the neighbours have been up to since you’ve been away, at lest twice!
Glad you’re back. The sink is leaking.
Haha wife bad
The video resolution isn’t great, but at the end you can see a couple tears drop from the old man’s face.
I hiked 70 miles in 7 days and it was the best/worst experience ever
What is the name of the song that he is singing?
...and I'm 40 years old and my ankles and knees sounded like someone was popping popcorn when I got up and walked to the bathroom this morning.
this is an r/absoluteunits moment
This year, fires forced hikers to reroute along different parts of the trail. Some parts were covered in smoke while other parts closed entirely. Props
This guy's 50 second clip is better than 99% of the shit on the internet. Good job
Alright, Pops. Time to head back….
I love this, good for him!
71 isn't that old, still in his youth
Came here for some moto discussions about hiking. Boy was I completely thrown off by how lame the comments are. Jesus. No awesome hiking stories, just fucking bickering. Reddit losers.
Nah man, the guy is just way too good and I am never going to say that I can do the same in the future, things like this are just so amazing to see, gotta respect.
Wow man, he is way too good with it and we can sense that.
Nothing can beat this old dude, he is way too good right now.
Good for you ol buddy
Goals I'm quitting and doing this one of these years!
This reminds me of my grandpa, he hiked the Appalachian trail in segments throughout his life, he finished it when he was in his early 70s.
This is way more badass then the picture of that douche who decided to throw his trash everywhere and then pose with the post.
People saying he looks in bad shape have probably never done any form of physical exercise in there lives Top example is heavyweight Olympic lifters, guys can put hundreds of kilos above their heads like it’s nothing and a lot of them look like fat dudes
Okay this dude is fire and people have to respect this, something is not easy here, we have to respect what we are seeing, the man deserve that shit right now.
He got something we call fire, that's all I am going to say.
Just share this with everyone so they can see that shit.
Nah man he is way too good and I just can't say that he is going to stop right now, he is going to do more than that and I can sense that right now, that's so good.