The biggest is the Squamish 50 – it’s the biggest ultra in Canada, with 1200 participants from 20 countries. I run a race series back home and I’ve got events before and after the Nolan’s attempt. You have a few events of your own you’re organizing. But my partner in the coaching business studies this stuff – he says I have to spend 12 hours a day in a hypoxic chamber if I want any benefit from it. I’ll be coming straight from sea level into that! But we had access to our support crew – we can check in six or seven times over the course of the traverse. Nolan’s Fourteeners are like a Barkley, with less vertical but way more altitude…Įxactly. ![]() We turned around and headed all the way back up to the saddle we'd dropped off maybe five hours earlier. After warming up and being reminded by my lovely wife that we still had 31 hours left to get this done we made the call to get back in the game. We skipped Belford (maybe one mile away) because of the state we were in. We dropped about five miles down to a trailhead and had our families and crew meet us there. We made the hard call to drop off the mountain and to call it a day. We actually had some snow flurries on Oxford (8th peak going south to north) and we realized we couldn't safely continue. You didn’t have the easiest time on Nolan’s!Īfter trudging through fourteen plus hours of fog, wind and rain we found ourselves hypothermic and in a bad state. Nolan's 14 finishers in 56h39m, with the best adventure partner imaginable." – collected some of Gary's thoughts and feelings on the recent adventures, what’s upcoming, and what’s not just worth the time (hint: hypoxic training). ![]() "Adventures were had, and we got it done. A post shared by Gary Robbins on at 10:24am PDT
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