Good observation Matt - I like it!  I have no good answer; being a crowd-sourced website, what you see is simply what people have submitted. I do note there were some massive Self-supported efforts that could not go Unsupported:  Pawel hiking… read more »

Good call Alex.  And your Boundary Waters Traverse was very good, and we really appreciate your work with Friends of Boundary Waters Wilderness (I'll happily put in a plug for this organization that is working hard to protect it from a copper mine!)

Congratulations Sam! Legendary finish up into the snowstorm on this! Definitely should be added to this year's FKT of the Year nomination list With stoke  Jason 

The only unsupported effort longer than 24 hours on this list is Mikaela Osler's Long Trail FKT. In previous years, we've seen multiple nominees for multi-day unsupported efforts. Last year alone had nominations for multi-day unsupported FKTs on the… read more »

According to the guide on the Pinhoti Trail Alliance website, the southern terminus is at the trailhead and is mile 0.0. If the blazes continue down to the trailhead and there's nothing distinguishing them to be different from the official trail (… read more »