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AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Tue 18 Jan, 2022 12:10 pmby GBW
Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Mon 24 Jan, 2022 1:30 pmby dashandsaph
These guys are racing along with a huge effort! A gigantic athletic feat. Really well done so far - Walhalla to Dead Horse Gap in 8 days (and a fair bit of night too)!
Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Mon 24 Jan, 2022 7:21 pmby crollsurf
The guy they're trying to beat was a walker not a trail runner. They look on track to break the record and good on them but there is definitely a hare v tortoise equation in all of this. Food drop v support crew.
I love tracking the final day on Garmin and watching it all unfold. Australia Day finish maybe, nice
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Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Mon 24 Jan, 2022 8:00 pmby Lophophaps
Does this party have a support team, and if so, what is the team doing? If they have the endurance they could get to Grey Mare Hut tonight. After that it's mainly flat for the rest of the trip, with about six river crossings.
Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Mon 24 Jan, 2022 8:03 pmby GBW
No support team. From what I read on the FB page 12 food drops. I think they'll get well past Grey Mare. They've been walking until 1am some nights.
Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Mon 24 Jan, 2022 8:18 pmby crollsurf
I just assumed there was support because the son is posting updates on FB. How cool is that. The ol' man crushing the Ks.
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Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Tue 25 Jan, 2022 7:14 amby Lophophaps
Does anyone know where they stopped last night and when?
Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Tue 25 Jan, 2022 7:50 amby GBW
They stopped at O'Keefes just after midnight and have past Mackays this morning.
Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Tue 25 Jan, 2022 3:44 pmby Lophophaps
GBW, thanks. As of 4:40 pm they are nearly at the Four Mile Hut turnoff. There's a relatively gentle climb to the ridge, then flat and down to Kiandra and the Eucumbene River. Once across that Witzes is close, then flat again to the Murrumbidgee River. They could make Ghost Gully, or even push on to Oldfields, mainly flat but a very late finish.
Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Wed 26 Jan, 2022 3:59 pmby GBW
10 days 10 hours after leaving Walhalla they've reached Oldfields with ~50k to go.
Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Wed 26 Jan, 2022 5:18 pmby Lophophaps
They are just over the ACT border at the helipad 6:17 pm, around 45 kilometres to go. If they walk late they will get to Tharwa early tomorrow morning. There's a big climb out of the Orroral Valley and a rocky descent in places coming off Tennent, but the rest is flat, gentle climbs, downhill or relatively easy with good tracks. One more river crossing. The record is 11 days, 9 hours and 6 minutes - within reach.
Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Thu 27 Jan, 2022 6:08 amby potato
10 days, 23 hours and 14 minutes - a fine effort and a new record.
Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Thu 27 Jan, 2022 4:57 pmby crollsurf
That's an average of ~60k/day and on top of that, some sections in Vic are brutal! Super human effort and experience, planning all rolled into one.
Incredible
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Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Thu 27 Jan, 2022 6:24 pmby GBW
Planned it well. I noticed a full moon in the first few days too.
Walhalla
Fiddlers Green
Mt Macdonald
Mt Speculation
Mt Blowhard
Near Cleve Cole Hut
Benambra-Corryong Rd
Stony Creek (Cowombat Flat Tk)
Dead Horse Gap
Okeefes Hut
Murrumbidgee River
Tharwa
Re: AAWT Fastest Known Time attempt
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Mon 07 Feb, 2022 4:01 pmby bernieq