Mark near the start of his FKT attempt, blissfully unaware of what’s ahead.

A little pu’ pu’ for those of you thinking about attending the whole luau, Mark Hartell gives his account of setting the FKT for the Backbone Trail in March, 2012 here.

Per Mark: “Heat seems to be a significant factor in accounts and it’s pretty much impossible to do the thing unsupported because there is little or no water for most of the route.”

The way we see it, you can either do this thing the hard, lonely, parched way on your own, or the fully-hydrated, official Coyote Cohorts way with us. Just sayin’.

For details of previous FKTs, click here.

P-23 makin’ some noise. Or is that P-24?

From LA Observed:

“National Park Service biologists affixed tracking devices recently on male and female kittens born to one of the adult female lions already being tracked through the mountain range. The newborns, believed to be six to eight weeks old, are now designated P-23 and P-24. They were found in the mother’s den near Circle X Ranch above Malibu and were released back into the wild.

Unfortunately, DNA testing conducted at UCLA found that the cubs were fathered by P-12, who also was the sire of the cubs’ mother, P-19.”

P-12 is obviously getting in some good training.

Read the full article here