New Mt Hood FKT Set By A Former Navy SEAL in his Underwear

Chasing Fastest Known Times is a pretty weird part of our mountain sports world. Many would argue that the style required for setting FKTs in the mountains takes away the fun and turns the sport into nothing more than chasing a number, but you can’t deny that many of these feats are really f***ing impressive. Take, for example, Jack Kuenzle’s recent FKT of Oregon’s Mount Hood. On April 24, Kuenzle, a former Yale club hockey player and Navy SEAL, smashed both the summit time and the roundtrip ski time. He made it to the summit in 1:16:40, before downclimbing the top 200 feet and racing back down to Timberline Lodge to complete the roundtrip in 1:31:31. Oh yeah, and Kuenzle did the whole thing while wearing nothing more than a helmet, sunglasses, and his underwear. Check out what he had to say about the feat in his post!