While setting a speed record for New Hampshire hiking, Philip Carcia was sometimes struck with a sort of reverse déjà vu. Halfway through a hike, he'd question whether he had completed an earlier one on his list.
On July 7, Carcia became the second hiker ever to cram the Grid into a single year, beating the previous record by five weeks. It was 319 days of extreme highs and lows, in both elevation and emotions. "My brain would identify the textures on the ground, the textures on the rocks, and the roots as faces," he said."I started to be convinced that these faces, these eyes on the rocks, could kind of see through me and see into my struggle."
Carcia, who grew up in Massachusetts, didn't start hiking until he was 16, though he said he first felt the pull of the White Mountains as a toddler, gazing out a car window during a family vacation. By his 20s, hiking consumed him — he tackled the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail and more. His father's death in 2014 propelled him back to New Hampshire, where he channeled his grief by hiking all 48 mountains in under four weeks.
"I picked up my phone and there was a text from Phil that said, 'Make it happen because no one just happened to make it,'" Mooshian said."I rolled over and read that text, and thought, 'OK, it's coffee time. Let's do this.'"
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