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Youngest female to climb lower 48 state high peaks
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Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:46 pmby awwestlake@gmail.com
My name is Lucy Westlake and I am 12 years old. Does anyone know the record for youngest female to climb all of the lower 48 state high peaks? I started climbing the state high peaks at age 7. In the next week, I will hopefully complete my goal of climbing all the lower 48 state high peaks. I just climbed Gannett and Granite this week. I only have Borah and King's Peak left which I hope to do in the next few days. I am wondering if I will be the youngest female to accomplish this goal. Does anyone know how I can find out?
I plan to climb Denali next year. If I am successful, then I will have climbed all 50 state high peaks.
Thank you for any feedback you can give me!
Re: Youngest female to climb lower 48 state high peaks
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Sun Jul 17, 2016 9:02 pmby nartreb
Ages not shown, but there aren't that many females on the completion list:
http://highpointers.org/archives/72 It looks like the youngest female 48er was 17 according to this article dated 2012:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/s ... story.html So you only need to check the ages of more recent female finishers.
Re: Youngest female to climb lower 48 state high peaks
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Mon Jul 18, 2016 12:56 pmby Holsti97
The youngest was Kristen Kelliher at 17 years 4 months who climbed Mount Mansfield in Vermont on 9/11/2011 for her 48th state highpoint.
Re: Youngest female to climb lower 48 state high peaks
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Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:24 pmby ExcitableBoy
Nice to see some youth not mindlessly fiddling with their electronic widgets. Good luck on Denali, stay safe.
Re: Youngest female to climb lower 48 state high peaks
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Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:13 pmby Steven Cross
Looks to me like you beat the record by a long shot. I can't imagine to many 12 year olds and younger climbing Gannet, Granite and Ranier.
Re: Youngest female to climb lower 48 state high peaks
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Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:13 amby x4wheeling
Congrats on completing the lower 48 high points, and your 49th high point Lucy! It was too bad I missed you on Borah by a couple days. Also glad you saved the best for last, Kings- Utah
Garrett & Jen
Re: Youngest female to climb lower 48 state high peaks
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Sat Oct 01, 2016 5:22 pmby spiderman
Congratulations on becoming the youngest female finisher! That is quite a feat to ascend the CONUS state highpoints. There are so many skills (hiking, glacier, camping, navigation, and lots&lots&lots of driving) required to reach of the peaks. Gannett is the nemesis for so many people. We had an epic 9-day adventure climbing it in May, never seeing dry ground for entire expedition. Nothing builds better connections between a father and child than a many year sojourn around this beautiful country.
-Doug & Arthur Harris