So. What is Anish up to these days?

Meet Heather “Anish” Anderson. It should be said right away that Anderson is not your typical backpacker. On Sept. 24, 2015, she set the self-supported speed record for hiking along the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia: 54 days, 7 hours and 48 minutes. Two years earlier, she set a record on the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650-mile path that runs between Mexico and Canada along some of the most unforgiving terrain in the western United States.

So what did Anderson do after adding the AT record to her PCT record?

Two days after flying home to Seattle, she set off on a four-day climbing trip in the Glacier Peak Wilderness. Along the way, she scrambled up seven mountains, three of them above 9,000 feet in elevation.

That type of schedule would seem extreme to even the hardiest of Northwest trekkers. But for Anderson, being in the mountains as much as physically and mentally possible is life’s main objective. And, as it turns out, there isn’t much that’s impossible for her.

Anderson doesn’t just hike. She also runs 100-mile ultramarathons and is roughly two-thirds of the way through climbing Washington’s 100 highest mountains, known as the Bulger List. It’s not uncommon for her to hike more than 20 miles in a day — with a full pack and significant elevation gain.

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