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It’s nothing big, I was going to do a thru-hike of the AZT anyway, but I found out that the youngest known person to thru hike the AZT is 19. When I complete the trail I’ll still be 18 this spring, so I was wondering how to make this a record?

I think you make it a record by beating the current record...

Just guessing here, but I imagine contacting the Arizona Trail Association would be a good start.

@NikSavik
You might need to get witnesses and an official to verify that you did it. I'm not sure if you have register anywhere in advance to get the official record.

And if it's important to you, maybe carry a GPS and log your trip, so if anyone questions if you did it you have some proof. If you're doing this for strictly personal reasons then it doesn't matter if you have to prove it to anyone, you will know what you did.

@Sredfield
Wasn't there a gal through-hiking the AZT with her young (9-10?) daughter last year?
If so, do you know if they completed it?

@CannondaleKid
I don't remember that specifically. The Householder family is section hiking it with young children. An 11 year old did 67 miles of the Flagstaff 100 last year. There was a high school senior who hiked it, the name escapes me now. (Notice a trend regarding memory here?)

@CannondaleKid
certainly Ripley would differentiate thru hiked solo & thru hiked chapparoned

joebartels wrote:hiked chapparoned

... and the Guinness folks as well, although they may refer to it as chaperoned

@CannondaleKid

Sredfield wrote: ↑Jan 10 2018 7:18 am @CannondaleKid
There was a high school senior who hiked it, the name escapes me now.

Brady Maghran (trail name: Prom Date) He's the 17 year old that hiked it. http://www.aztrail.org/ata_news/ATANewsSummer17.pdf

'OK, back to the drawing board. Who is the oldest that has backpacked the entire Arizona Trail?

@SuperstitionGuy
The one freebie from the research department has been used, please submit a FOIA request and applicable fees.

Anyone know the FKT for a dog solo, unsupported?

Blanco wrote:Anyone know the FKT for a dog solo, unsupported?

Woof! Bark bark, woof, yip yip bark woof. (Human translation available upon request.)

@SuperstitionGuy
Oldest when they hiked it or oldest now?

@rcorfman
Oldest living as opposed to Zombie?

There should be a category "Hiker who enjoyed this AZT thru-hike the most".
Hard to measure but I'm sure I would be a serious contender for the title

rcorfman wrote:Oldest when they hiked it or oldest now?

Oldest thru backpacker.
Give him the Golden Horse Shoe award for hoofing it through the Arizona Trail without a horse.

@SuperstitionGuy
Well - can't say for sure, but I have records of someone reported as 85 who section hiked it over 2 years. Another at 81. The oldest for "All at Once" is 76.

I hope I'm that badass when I'm 85. Or even half that badass.

Is that considered a bad word?