Athletes
Route
Route variation
standard route up & down
Gender category
Male
Style
Unsupported
Finish date
Total time
2h
28m
18s
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Rickey Gates, 1h28m47s ascent / 2h28m18s RT, 07/08/2010
Rickey Gates' data are reported as follows:
Landmark Time
Vernal Footbridge 7:54am
Summit 1:28:47 h:m:s
Descent 59:31 m:s
Total 2:30:50 h:m:s
http://yosemiteexplorer.com/yosemite-news/100708-half-dome-record-rickey-gates
Comments
This page links to my site, but that page (and most of the site) has been broken for a very long time and I have no interest in fixing it, so I'm adding the relevant parts from my mini-interview with Rickey to a comment here and, even if that page did work, I think people would rather have the info here.
Rickey's splits:
Vernal Footbridge 7:54
Bathrooms at top of Mist Trail: 34:04
Summit: 1:28:47
Descent: 59:31
Total: 2:28:18
Rickey's comments: "This was my first time up Half Dome but not my first time in the area. I ran to Nevada Falls a few days earlier to get a feel for the trail and make sure that I didn't have any problems with wrong turns during my TT. (I recently tried for the Rim to Rim record at the Grand Canyon and fell short by one minute after getting lost for about six minutes on another trail). I power hiked a very small section below Nevada Falls which I was able to run a few days earlier. I think that, in my case, it should be run. Though the transition from hiking to running is taxing on my body I had no option but to hike a little bit as my legs were somewhat tired from the accumulation of training I have been doing in the past few weeks.
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