To start off, I’m downed at the time I put up on the AT Self Support FKT. A time that will easily be beat. Many things slowed down for my first FKT. With my original set up, I would of shaved off more time. Didn’t come in the mail in time. Also, I was working on 2 Food Drops while I was rolling the FKT. Many more things I know what to improve on for future FKT’s. I went AT Nobo to work it into the calendar triple crown and to make it back to a family reunion. This year will cap off my calendar triple which will also be my double triple in roughly 32 months. I’ve met hundreds of people that know my style and how I stay true to the trail. Lets get this started and finished….

Day 1 capped 62.3 miles in 24 hours

Day 2 2 am 93.6 Carter Gap shelter. Hypothermic conditions, luckily a pinch of space near a hiker put up their tent in the shelter...Woke up shaking uncontrollably at 4am and I was off and running.

Day 3 NOC 137mi

Day 4 Mollies Ridge shelter 177mi

Day 5 Pecks Corner shelter 217 mi

Day 6 Standing Bear during morning and passed out at Laughing Heart Hostel. 273 mi

Day 7 dunno where i ended, didn’t leave Laughing Heart till 6 am Oiiii

Day 8 near Indian Grave Gap 351 mi

Day 9 Buck Mountain Rd. 397 mi

Day 10 stopped in @ kincora 4too long chitchatting post up on trail around 445 mi

Day 11 Lost mountain Shelter for 25 minute nap 485 mi

Day 12 Partnership Shelter 532 mi

Day 13 on trail roughly 575 mi Watched the Cavs game @ chestnut knob shelter for 5 minutes…. Game 3 nba finals

Day 14 Wapiti Shelter 616.5 mi

Day 15 Bailey Gap Shelter 658.6 mi

Day 16 Four Pines 702 mi

Day 17 Toes started getting really bad, almost passed out on a picnic table in Daleville trying to work on it. Burnt loads of time in town and met up with Spontaneous in his hotel room to catch up for a bit.

Day 18 On trail just north of Highcock Knob 777mi Met Ohkie, VP, Wildcat, Blaze.

Day 19 Post up on trail 830mi 2 miles south of VA Route 56

Day 20 Turk Gap 874 mi 2 hour nap ish

Rolling back that 76 Mile day... Day 19-21

Bearly made it to Rockfish Gap Information Center Waynesboro VA (862mi) 4:30-8 ish pm.

McCormick Gap (865.6mi) slept an hour ish 10-11pm ish

Took another nap at Jarman Gap (870.6mi) Left around 4am

Stopped at Loft Mountain Campstore (890mi)

Stopped n slept at Hightop Hut Shelter (904mi)@ 2pm-4pm ish

Forgot my shirt hanging in the shelter. Pouring rain, blasting my music thru my earbuds, came over a hill thinking/planning where I'd have another shirt sent to, Ran into a Black bear sow and cub. Roughly 5 feet away, she walked a lil bit at me and hopped on her back legs. Yelled and jumped high in the air and kept rolling. Cub was probably only a week old.

Got Spring water at Pocosin Cabin (913.6mi)

Posted a FB Live video on Little Stony Man. (933.5mi)

Took long break with another hiker at Pinnacle Picnic Grounds (936.5mi) Getting Dark

Don't think I took any naps Rolling to Elkwallow Wayside. (950.6mi) Posted up at 3 am.

Day 21 Elkwallow Wayside couple hour sleep 950 mi

Day 22 Sky Meadow SP 987 mi kept hiking cause a daddy long leg was eating a worm on my sleeping pad… Insects everywhere

Day 23 Picked up packages at Bears Den Hostel Stayed wayyyy to long in Harpers Ferry charging electronics and eating and sleeping. Posted on trail 1033mi where my clip for my chest strap fell off.

Day 24 Pen Mar Park Charged electronics there and chatted with the guy in info desk briefly to charge electronics. Gave a hiker my credit card to go buy Lithium batteries for my spot device at the walmart, burning wayyyy to much time. Late Late in the dark at the Mason Dixon line and kept rolling till I posted up at Antietam Shelter 1072 mi

Day 25 Halfway point, ate Pine Grove Furnace Store. Charged electronics and attempted to take a nap...Hiked with Puddle Jumper till we hit the campsite at 1113 mi.

Day 26 Met Greybeard slacking sobo. Napped at boiling springs Ran into Waterboy and a handful of other hikers...Picked my packages up at the Doyle. Showed at the church hostel. Rolled couple more miles in the dark to 1154 mi on Trail

Day 27 posted up at 501 shelter Late Late 1194 mi

Day 28 Port Clinton Barbershop charged electronics and hung out for 2 hours. Unbelievable Hospitality. Eckville Shelter 1233 mi

Day 29 Posted up on trail at 1270 mi

Day 30 Rolled into church of mountain hostel. Showered and took a nap. Ate loads of food and downed tons of coffee. Rolled up to campsite 1310mi and ran into Shepherd, cdt 16er. Woke him up and chatted for wayyy toooo long eventually tiring me out for the night. Posted up till the morn.

Day 31 Posted up at the Rocky Outcrop on top of the mountain 1352 mi

Day 32 Found hiking poles I started hiking with, posted up at Tiorati Circle 1389 mi and bought ice cream out of the vending machine. Bomb diggity dog made my night.

Day 33 Bear mountain lodge. Bought Grandmas cookies and loads of coffee. Booked it on up to Market and Route 9 to take another solid break with loads of more coffee and pizza. Posted not long after RPH shelter 1430.

Day 34 Phone got Water Logged ! ! ! Resupplied at Salisbury, packages at Vanessa Breton...Posted up at Brassie Brook Shelter 1504mi

Day 35 1547 mi on trail just south of Upper Goose Pond. Rolling fast around 3 am and John the Baptist cdt16er woke up and yelled Knotts ! ! ! Chatted outside and got eaten to death by mosquitos. Felt good at the time and I kept rolling only to post up a half mile after meeting up with John the Baptist.

Day 36 John the Baptist flew by me in the morning. I eventually caught up and we hiked together and chatted about last years hike. Plenty to talk about since we hiked all the trails the same years. Pct 15’ cdt 16’ to Dalton to Tom Lavardis. Tom was amazing and we hung out for an hour. Hit up the Gas station on the way out of town and I tried ordering a new phone. Posted up at Thunderbolt Shelter 1586 mi

Day 37 posted right on trail 1626 where I parted ways after John the Baptist did his first ever back to back 40’s.

Day 38 unsure Big Branch Shelter sticks out though 1667 mi

Day 39 1707 mi on trail

Day 40 West hartford stopped at library to see where my new spot device and cell phone was… Neither showed up to the post office. Resupplied at Dan and Whits. Kept rolling to Hanover, hit CVS for more liquid bandage and got some warm food at the gas station before rolling just out of town. 1749 mi

Day 41 Hit up Hexacuba Shelter to run into hikers. Didn’t think it was that far off trail, but I needed to borrow a guide book. Notta clue what was ahead. 1780 mi on trail

Day 42 Eliza Brook Shelter 1808 mi Woke up to a mouse crawling up the back of my shirt and figured it was time to hit the road.

Day 43 Logged in the morning at Lonesome Lake Hut. Franconia Ridge and passed millions of day hikers. Ryan Wells friend took my pic on Mt. Lafayette Had him post on instagram to verify.

Stopped in a Galehead Hut for coffee and nap, kept rollin past Zealand Falls Hut to grab more water. Posted on trail at 1840 mi

Day 44 Early morning made it to Mizpah Hut for some pancakes, was jus going to get water. Slow rolling up to Lake of the Clouds for more pancakes. Ran out the door to follow this guy running 100 miles in 2 days… He finished at Mt Washington, but was nice chatting till the top of Mt. Washington. Grabbed a pic on instagram. Rolled downstairs to get some sleep. Chatted with Malink into waking up me up after 20min. Rolled down to Pinkham Notch and headed up into the Wildcats. Posted up on Wildcat DPeak platform 1873 mi

Day 45 Rolled into Carter Notch Hut as people were waking up. Had people wakeme up after 20 minutes. Hiked with Highline for a good part of the day to White Mountain Hostel. Smashed food, nap,shower and finally kept rolling. Rolled to Gentian Pond 1903 mi shelter where I met Zebra passed out.

Day 46 Wyman Mountain 1938 mi Hypothermic conditions, everything got soaked. Got up and hiked to Hall Mountain Lean-to to attempt to sleep the rest of the night.

Day 47 Rolled into The Hiker Hut, Started running out of food from eating loads thru the cold previous night. Left at 11pm and posted up 1974 mi on trail

Day 48 Posted up at Horns Pond Lean-to’s 2007 mi

Day 49 Swam the Kennebec, Bushwhacked halfmile up the river before jumping in. Actually a one of the more serious fords I’ve ever forded. Ran to the Caratunk Hostel. Hard to believe it's my last resupply. Posted up at Pleasant Pond Lean-To 2044 mi

Day 50 Had to dry shoes out from the Kennebec. Slow going day. Met up with Veg and Sketchy and hiked a couple miles at the end of the night with them. Posted up at Spectacle Ponds Outlet 2075 mi

Day 51 Slow rolling previous day, I wanted the 100 mile wilderness in 2 days. Actually took 49 hours was bummed, water logged trail and tons of blow days slowed me down a bit. Posted up at East Branch Lean-To 2122 mi for 20 minutes. Ran into Captain Underpants just before the Landing. He wanted to do something crazy so he rolled all the way to Abol Bridge with me.

Day 52 Posted up on the northside of rainbow ledges 2169 mi for 30 min

Day 53 Rolled up Katahdin and summited at 1:57 pm…. Making the AT self-support FKT a grand total of 53 days 22 hours and 57 minutes.

For my Spot Device, I had plenty of things that kept happening at bad times. I rolled out to the CDT to train for my fkt. Also a great place to see how long my Lithium batteries would last. Attempting to smash out as many problems that I may come across on the AT FKT. Batteries were lasting roughly 6 or 7 days for 16 hours per day… Eventually I found out that is not correct and HDMAMA said something must be wrong with my Spot Gen 2. Called up my Spot 1 day north of Delaware water Gap…. Plenty of time to get a new one at Hanover NH. When I arrived at Hanover NH, my phone was water logged. So I went to the library in West Hartford and called them. They said they just sent out my package yesterday…… So a new Spot device was now out of the question. Burning loads of time in town trying to track this down and my new phone that was suppose to show up. After finding out my spot device was messed up the TRACKING stopped working. I thought okay it just now able to track cause I’m walking in rain. Next day it didn’t work either. My check in’s for the most part should of worked and I am going to be getting my Spot drops shortly of the AT. Sooooo continuing my spot situation down South. I rolled into Uncle Johnny’s to stack up on and eat loads of food. Throw up the feet take a brief break and charge. 8 miles up I stopped, cause my bag felt a lil light. Eventually finding out I left my Medical bag at Uncle Johnny’s. I had brand new lithium batteries that I was just going to switch out in a day or 2. Since I’m rolling a self support record, I couldn’t have them ship the bag up trail to me… The closest Walmarts were 6-10 miles away, taking that out of the question. Ordering Lithiums online off Amazon is thru 3rd party. Making it take 4-5 business days…. So I kept rolling and I shipped a set to Bears Den Hostel… Looked like they didn’t receive those in times so I kept rolling from there knowing I had Lithiums in my box at Delaware water Gap.

Shoot me questions if you have any….

Once again I’ve hiked plenty, the people I have hiked with know me and know my style… Yellow Blazing anything is skipping / cheating yourself. It doesn’t have to be for an FKT....