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Setting the Sun on 2025

  • Dec 31, 2025
  • 2 min read

Updated: 4 hours ago


RIri Morphine, Holly Bryant, and Rachel Mitchell
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.


Corrections or updates are welcome: lecontelog@gmail.com.


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


 
 
 

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