Hallucinations, a Broken Pack, and a JMT Record

Podcast: Free Outside · Jeff Garmire

Opublikowano: 2026-10-05

The John Muir Trail is back in the FKT spotlight, so I dug up the story of one of the wildest things I have ever done. In 2022, I started in Yosemite carrying everything I would need to cover 223 miles unsupported and chase the John Muir Trail record. Over the next three days, I peed brown, stopped eating enough, hallucinated a safari guide, broke both straps on my backpack, fell asleep while moving, and woke up face-down on the trail. With the record slipping away, I took a 12-minute nap, climbed Mount Whitney through the night...