Backpacker Radio

#57 | Crazy Jack Northam on Summiting Whitney ~200 Times, Listener Poop Stories, and the Top Tents on the Appalachian Trail

We are joined by "Crazy Jack" Northam. Crazy Jack has earned his name by summiting Mt. Whitney (the highest peak in the United States' lower 48) nearly 200 times, an endeavor he didn't begin until the ripe age of 50 years. Today, jack now 72 years old and still going strong. He regales us with tales of his many ascents up his favorite mountain, why he…