FKT: Ryan Thorpe - Bob Marshall Picnic - 2022-07-15

On July 15, 2022 I completed what I believe to be the first Bob Marshall Picnic.

My splits were

• Keene Valley to JBL: 5.19mi, 1,450', 1h54m
• Stop at JBL: 4m
• Bob Marshall Traverse: 30.53mi, 14,678', 13h21m
• Stop at ADK Loj: 30m
• Bike from ADJ Loj to Keene Valley: 20.43mi, 984', 1h45m
• Total: 56.15mi, 17,112', 17h33m

I carried all food and filtered water during the Traverse portion of the day. However, I bought food from the Adirondack Loj, which makes this a self supported effort. Arguably, this style of FKT could only be considered self supported anyway, since you need to stash a bike at the end of the traverse (carrying it with you all day would be a truly heroic effort).

I wrote a report with more pictures here.