Alright folks what kind of mileage are we working with?
If I'm hiking, we're talking 30ish miles daily. If I'm biking, we're talking 50-100 miles daily. Definitely not an "ultralighter", most of my gear is from walmart and a lot of it is repaired with duct tape and similar solutions. Colorado, but have been all over the U.S.
>30 miles
How long did it take you to work up to that? What boots do you suggest?
Like always been pretty standard my whole life. Probably made the jump from 15ish miles to 30ish miles when I was a young teenager.
I explore the frick out of things, ditch trails often
I do that with 45lbs on my back like it's nothing you big babby
>there aren't places with trails like that
lmfao I walk where I want son
Does anyone else have trouble believing this? There’s something odd about this board. Someone states obvious bullshit, gets called called out, then they just lay it on thicker.
>it’s doubtful that you hike that far
>”lul I’ve been doing this exclusively off trail with a 45lb pack since I was 14”
You're less than human being this much of a pussy I was hiking 30 milers long before I even got into "shape"
drop your strava and prove it.
Im sorry I dont use any of that shit, lmao
Seethe
what a crazy coincidence that you make a claim and have no proof for it.
The claim: Walking
Lmfao
the claim: OP is gay
>real American fact checkers have found this to be true
Yeah, see:
None of these people are physically fit enough to hike 5km with a 5lb backpack on flat terrain without having a heart attack. they're so inexperienced with the outdoors that they don't even know what a believable lie is.
>they're so inexperienced with the outdoors that they don't even know what a believable lie is.
The Anon who mentioned Naismith’s rule is right. They looked up what the average speed is or read about long distance hiker mileage and just went from there.
Imagine thinking its hard to walk
It’s not, but claiming 30 miles a day is fricking stupid. The other Anon is right; you’re so inexperienced you don’t even know what a believable lie is.
>my passive behavior makes this anon seethe
Hilarious
This is how you do steep terrain for sure
Cuz you suck
>None of these people are physically fit enough to hike 5km with a 5lb backpack on flat terrain
5km with a 2,5 kg backpack is how much an avarage child in 60% of places on the globe has to go to primary school you absolute moron
>googles “average walking speed”
>sees 3mph
>multiplies it by the number of daylight hours this time of year
>ThAtS HoW FaR I HiKe
Wikipedia has an article on Naismith’s rule. It has lots of facts and a few charts and some arithmetic to satisfy your autism.
Yeah, 3mph is an average walking speed over perfectly level, paved roads. Throw in a few delays for eating, resting, site seeing… claims he doesn’t stick to established hiking trails (like a solid half of /our/), so he has to take time for navigation, bushwhacking, and scrambling. I guess you could jog in between those delays.
And Naismith’s rule isn’t just about a mountains total elevation, it’s about elevation gain. It’s not like we go any faster downhill (sometimes it’s slower slower, if it’s steep and precarious).
My average walking speed on flat terrain is 4.5 mph, that's completely passive no focus. Perhaps you have short baby legs.
Even shit where you must crawl or grab onto things it really doesn't slow me down much
I would probably struggle to sleep or something if I ever walked less than 8 hours in a day, I much prefer 12+ if possible.
>4.5 mph
>with 45 lbs on his back
>for 30 miles or more
At least try to make it believable...
>cant read
When hiking I move 3-4 mph, 4.5 would be my around town speed. Note I said it was flat terrain. Yes, I do walk faster than some people jog.
>Yes, I do walk faster than some people jog.
No you don't.
If you walk with your legs then you don’t know what you’re doing. You have to walk from the hips.
Enough of the larp. No one walks like that while hiking.
Oh it's THIS homosexual. Hello again, we've missed you and your shitposts.
Based user of geometry and understander of hypotenuse
If I'm backpacking I'll put in about 30 miles a day depending on the terrain. I pedal a road bike up and down the mountains here in Tennessee Appalachians, usually don't do much more than 40 miles but am interested in doing a longer bike-packing trip. Just hard to trust drivers not to flatten you.
>30 miles a day
I don’t believe you.
First, there’s the fact that even people with ultralight loads who have been hiking continuously for several months on thruhikes rarely do 30 mile days, and when they do it’s out of necessity and a push with regards to time. But most importantly are the logistics. 30 miles a day would mean 60 miles on a single overnight trip. There aren’t too many places that have loop trails that long.
We hiked in the afternoon and set the camp in this pic, woke up and ate breakfast in the dark and started hiking when the light started increasing. Hiked steady the entire day only stopping for water and food. Set camp that night close to dark and we calculated that we had done around 30 miles. I don't just do those distances all the time, I also do a lot of casual shorter hikes
>I average this
>but really I did it this once
>and I’m not sure how far it really was, we just guessed
This is why I don’t believe you.
That poster isn't OP
this is
Thanks bro I thought that was obvious but some people act like buttholes for no reason... nothing new for me though. I've been terribly persecuted my entire life. Don't worry, I've got thick skin. I can handle it. I can weather the storm. I will triumph over all adversity in the end because I am a beast and I know it... what do you know? Licorice? My indomitable will is insurmountable. Ope
I never assumed it was the same person. “You” is plural, ESL.
Seethe. You know you were attacking only OP, ESL.
>he doesn't take time to actually explore the areas in which he's hiking
PrepHole is that way --------->
Oh no, PrepHole has contracted another new type of cancer...
It’s more like aids because it’s so fricking gay.
True. And it's unlikely to ever really go away. This board just keeps picking up new diseases like a crack prostitute.
Cry about it, b***h
>I’m not unfit I’m just appreciating nature
The cope fatties come out with always makes me laugh.
>you have to treat hiking like a competition or your fat
Do you have any idea of how fricking stupid you sound?
I top out at about 20 miles and 4 or 5 thousand feet of gain right now hiking in the presidentials. Trying to get PrepHole enough to do the 1 day traverse next summer. It's hard sometimes to strike a balance between finishing the hike and hike-adjacent hobbies mushrooms, herping, entomology and photography, especially when you're day hiking and on a pretty tight time constraint.
the pres traverse is savage. attempted it in may 2022 and did the full ascent but ran out of time for the descent. have done much harder stuff now (did a 1 day R2R2R) and my recommendations are the following:
1) Your weekly running mileage should be more than your max distance you are trying to make (20+ mi a week for pres traverse). Running, especially on an empty stomach, really helps with the mentality of long distance and also the cardio aspect
2) eating about 150 calories an hour and constantly hydrating makes a huge difference. I'll usually drink water to keep my urine slight yellow, and then when I make it to a water source I'll hit a salt packet and drink a ton of water to down that.
3) go on ~~*Alltrails*~~ and sort local hikes by distance, and then do those progressively. It's not the big hikes that will train you but the weekend hikes that will make you fit.
I'm planning on doing both the presidential traverse and pemi loop back to back memorial Day weekend, would be happy to have another guy to do it with.
Great advice, thank you. I've been pretty busy with work so I haven't been able to get away on a lot of hikes recently but I ride my bicycle to try and keep in shape.
>I'm planning on doing both the presidential traverse and pemi loop back to back memorial Day weekend, would be happy to have another guy to do it with.
I wouldn't want to slow you down, I'm not the fastest hiker and I usually carry all kinds of extra shit like a DSLR and tripod and such.
Nice!
I don't go super fast on Appalachian trail, only ascending. I would be happy to help carry stuff if it means really good photos and memories, good training opportunity
>what kind of mileage are we working with?
What type of trail conditions are we working with?
What type of elevation change are we working with?
What amount of daylight hours are we working with?
on what kind of topography and terrain?
because if it's flat land and solid ground I can believe it but if it's on a mountain, and especially if it's not a good beaten path but a shitty path full of rocks or ice and snow you'll never do 48km a day
Bro if I'm not moving fricking vertically I can always do 3-4 mph as a passive speed
I usually do 8km a day but I'm always in the mountains and theres often shit terrain towards the end when I get to the top of the mountain, like big rocks and no trail or snow and ice
with 1/1.5km elevation gain in that shorter distance so pretty steep
15 km a day with 30kg on the back, imo it's a good balance between exploring the area and making good progress
>15 km a day with 30kg on the back
this thread is full of liars with low self-esteem.
How on earth is that immposible? I mean, it's quite avarage, and i don't mean high mountains, i mean like lower carpathian, with mountains ranging from 700m to 1400 above sea level. I go about 3km/h with a ~20kg backpack. About 5 hours of marching, 3 hours of resting, so about from 06:00 to ~ 14:00. You can get a plenty of rest once you set up a camp or arrive at a mountain shelter.
Anyone who does through-hikes with a 65 pound pack is either a liar or a moron who has no idea what they're doing. Which one are you?
That’s most of PrepHole. You can see it in the quality of threads. When was the last time you saw something actually helpful or insightful?
35-65km for my weekly ruck on a Saturday with about 20-25lbs. Just to stay in shape.
>For daily distance on longer trips (3 weeks+, good weather, on trails)
20-25km is realistic for beginners.
30km for committed novices.
30-40km is normal for any fit person after a few months of continuous hiking.
40-50km is also relatively easily attainable if you keep your backpack light.
40km with heavy loads 50-70lbs is the gold standard I have found. I never really saw or felt the need to walk more. And it's easy to maintain that fitness level once you get there.
>so clueless he doesn’t even know how ridiculous his lie is
>km
>lbs
What country is this?
Canada obviously
>40km with heavy loads 50-70lbs is the gold standard
Gold standard for grinding your knees to dust maybe. Unless you have to for your job, why would you subject yourself to that? I'd rather do 4 days of 50km with a 15lb pack than one 20km day with a 70lb pack.
12-16 days of food, tunnel tent, fishing gear, I only go on long hikes in the north anymore. Obviously carrying 60lbs road and tourist walking will kill you.
PrepHole is a lot like a bunch of middle school boys telling each other how many women they’ve fricked and describing the encounters.
It's full of morons who sit in their mothers basement on Christmas. Really sad. I'm just trying to show them what is possible if you commit to a different mode of life for once in your life.
Yeah sure, totally not made up, I believe you, like you said 40k with 70lbs is mere peanuts, a marathon with 70lbs on your back why there is nothing exceptional there
t. Baby legs
Now you, the person accusing the other of having baby legs, have to post a pic of your legs with a time stamp. Literally no one on out has ever done this, and you won’t break that trend.
>a marathon with 70lbs on your back why there is nothing exceptional there
If you ruck the marathon in 4h with that pack it would be exceptional, otherwise not really.
Anyone can do 40k. 4-5h 20k in the morning. have some lunch. do another 4-5h 20k in the afternoon. set up camp. relax while doing some fishing.
Depends--most of the hikes around me have massive elivation gains or are on the coast so you have to time the tides and walking on beaches slows you down bigly.
15miles a day is respectable on many of these challenging trails. Anywhere west of the rockies you should be able to aveage 25 miles a day -- I've tested this extensivlly.
I don't know about Colorado--I only ever mountain biked there and I was doing anywhere from 25 to 40 miles a day pretty easily.
* east of the Rockies
Scroll through PrepHole
>milsurp packs
>natirhike tents
>flashlights instead of headlamps
>depression, incel, and social reject threads
>autistic boots
>gear pics (nearly all bushcraft)
Are these the people I’m supposed to believe hike the equivalent of a marathon with no issues when the average normal can barely handle 15?
instead of headlamps
A superior choice if your hands aren't occupied using b***hsticks or israelitephones.
In your theorycrafted scenario, you only envision yourself needing a light when you’re just walking around at night.
>when the average normal can barely handle 15?
Avarage human male can handle a 15 mile hike without a huge problem, if you honestly think it requires anything to walk that distance, then you have set the bar way below the accual avarage
Without a backpack ofc. But if you add up weight it's like a completly diffrent discussion for every amount of weight on your back
>Avarage human male can handle a 15 mile hike without a huge problem
If we're talking about Americans, that's incorrect. The average American male would have trouble with 2-3 miles and would need to be flown out via helicopter if they attempted a 15 miler with no prep. I'm in good shape myself and I still feel pretty wiped after a 15 mile hike. I can't imagine how hard it would be for someone who never walks further than the distance from their house to their car, has never done any serious sports, and has an extreme excess in body fat to carry around.