Recounts of the Wonderland Trail at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington and the Tahoe Rim Trail in California. Stories of multiple attempts, friendship, solo adventures, Fastest Known Times (FKT) and Dead Effing Lasts (DFLs).
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Adventure Storytellers: Sean Harrasser, Mike Tebbutt
From: Portland, OR & Truckee, CA

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Sean Harrasser's Adventure Story : Mount Rainier National Park-Trail Running the Wonderland

Sean Harrasser is an experienced trail runner having spent many hours running on the Wonderland Trail at Mount Rainier National Park. He has completed the trail at least once as we learn through listening to his story. He's also a:

•  Song singer
• Plant ponderer
• Wildscape wanderer
• Laughter liker
• Map maker

Sean's Trail Running Adventure Quote

Also we need to be careful in distinguishing what these journeys mean; that these journeys at the event horizons of our capability aren’t defined, actually, by success or failure. Our successes come to us from being, from caring, from risking, from being vulnerable. Because this is the only chance in all of time and space we actually get to be us, and it’s hard to overstate the magnitude of that.

And in so doing, I realize the mountains don’t differentiate. They don’t congratulate us for our successes. They do not judge for our failures. They just are. And, in these adventures I get to just be. ~ Sean Harrasser, trail runner

Follow Sean Harrasser

• Sean Harrasser's Instagram is one to follow because it's rich with words and stunning photography.
• Sean's a map maker and here's one he made of Forest Park an urban Portland. It is available for purchase through NW Dirt Churner. Half of all the proceeds from map sales go to conserving Forest Park.

Map of Forest Park, Portland, by Sean Harrasser

Learn more about the Wonderland Trail in Mount Rainier National Park

• Mount Rainier National Park official website
• Tim Mathis, Boldly Went's co-founder, once ran around Mount Rainier and he wrote "HOW TO RUN AROUND MT. RAINIER: WONDERLAND TRAIL 94ISH MILE FUN RUN" for his personal blog. 
• If you'd like more information or assistance in planning your unsupported or supported run or trip around Mount Rainier, contact us.

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Mike Tebbutt's Adventure Story: FKT Trail Running on the Tahoe Rim Trail (TRT)

Tahoe Rim Trail Records

After 4 attempts, Mike Tebbutt snagged the record for the Unsupported Tahoe Rim Trail Fastest Known Time (FKT) in June 2015. He used only his feet to move 175 miles around lake Tahoe in 54 hours and 17 minutes.

Mike's time record was broken just a couple weeks later by Sean Ranney.

• See the Tahoe Rim Trail Association (TRTA) website for a bunch of records from the first llamas and horses to the people covering the most miles on the TRT.
• Unfortunately, looks like the unsupported FKT time is outdated by quite a lot on the TRTA website, and Mike's name has been left off. (We've emailed them!).
  
• More accurate information about the unsupported records can be found at Fastest Known Time.

Read more about Mike's TRT FKT here

• Donner Party Mountain Party Runners website for Mike's personal account.
• Sierra Sun, for Sylas Wright's journalistic reporting.
• Moonshine Ink, "The Local Lap: Racing Around Lake Tahoe" featuring stories about Mike's ski circumnavigation of Lake Tahoe, 6 skateboarders who skated around the lake, and that time Killian Jornet broke the supported Tahoe Rim Trail record

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Ryan Little. West Coast. Attribution License 4.0.
Maricz. Ukulele Jam.
A Quiet Thought. Wayne Jones.
Almost August. Dan Lebowitz

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