I will be starting a series of threads to promote activity. The first I wanted to share a lot of you may already know of, try to adhere to or have not hear about it.

"10 by 10"

- I used this phrase for a lot of my first 25% of my AT completion. For me it meant being up BEFORE the sun was coming up, and on trail as the sky is getting light, or preferably a little before and getting in 10 miles before 10 am. For many people this opens up time for a mid day siesta, but for me it always meant about 5 extra miles onto my already 20 mile day. I have found in later years that I prefer to sleep in on trail and would rather hike past dark if needing to get those extra 5 miles in....but I also really do enjoy a pre sunrise start time on trail, its as brilliant as a sunrise to hear the woods come alive for the day. Only in y recent stints on the CDT have a re adopted the phrase, and boy is it a life saver out there.

So what does 10 by 10 mean to you?