Setting the Sun on 2025

RIri Morphine, Holly Bryant, and Rachel Mitchell

Looking back on 2025, ladies led the parade of hikers on Mount Le Conte.

Lodge manager John Northrup was the annual champion with 86 ascents, but four of the top seven were female: Riri Morphine with 70, Rachel Mitchell with 50, Holly Bryant 40, and Bonnie Northrup 37.

Larry Russell, Le Conte's busiest hiker the past three years, set a record for 82-year-olds with 59 ascents in 2025.

Dewey Slusher made three round-trips on New Year's Eve to finish his year with 66 ascents at age 66. Others who "hiked their ages" are Morphine, Mitchell, and the Northrups,

The Tour de Le Conte was completed Oct. 5 by Trent Eidenmiller and John Smith.

Holly Bryant set a record with six vertical miles in 2025, with a lifetime total of nine.

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SHADING: Annual leaders is gold, runnerup is silver:

Name	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Lifetime
Larry Russell	28	34	56	105	122	59	652
John Northrup	50	48	44	70	108	86	646
Ed Jones	22	28	21	25	27	30	576
Dewey Slusher		23			56	66	539
Bonnie Northrup	35	21	41	50	71	37	431
Greg Donahue		11	11	8	7	8	221
Sandy Martin	24	13	21	30	31	4	167
Tim Massey		27	9	5	15	17	146
Melissa Coatney	20	33	21	23	13	19	129
Casey Bright	60	1			1		121
Bob Turney		14	15	11	4	6	110
Austin Funderburg		55	3		4	8	79
Riri Morphine					9	70	79
George Tolliver					43	1	73
Rachel Mitchell						50	55
Dana Schroeder						26	69
Holly Bryant						40	59