So, if each time I do a hike/section, I park in a lot, hike somewhere, and return, and do the whole trail this way, I will actually have hiked the whole thing twice....once north and once south. ...does it dount twice?
So, if each time I do a hike/section, I park in a lot, hike somewhere, and return, and do the whole trail this way, I will actually have hiked the whole thing twice....once north and once south. ...does it dount twice?
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I'm by no means an authority on the legalities of what counts on hiking the whole trail, but I'd say it counts twice.
Why wouldn't it count as north bound if you hike a trail section north and count as south bound from the turnaround point back to the starting point? I suspect there are quite a few people who do the trail this way and count it as both north and south bound mileage.
It makes you a 2000 miler. Twice perhaps. Beyond that?
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Enough people do slack packing the opposite direction and count it. I don't see why yours wouldn't.
Yea! I know but some purist don't count slack packing. Hike it your way.
It does indeed count twice. "Seeks It" is a 2012 certified double thru-hiker: http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=397139
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Counts as what and to who?
Hiking back over the same ground every few days is dumb, unless its the only way someone can hike. I.e.
limited funds and support means.
That time could be spent hiking elsewhere, seeing different things.
Of course, some people will do anything to get their name on a list.
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Like Tdoczi says, I don't know that it counts. What counts to me is how many days and nights you spend outdoors per year. Bag nights count, not trails hiked or miles walked.
There's something distinctly unsatisfying about having to retrace my steps on a single hike -- I really do prefer loops, or linear sections if they can be arranged. On the other hand, there are lots of trail miles I've walked multiple times, on purpose.
Bag nights? Who's counting, besides Tipi? I see "bag nights" as a necessary part of long distance hiking but not an end in and of itself. I appreciate a hot meal, shower, comfy bed every few days.
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Hyoh, but I disagree that it is a waste to cover the same ground. As a day hiker I often return down the mountain the same way as I went up. I always see things the 2nd time I missed the first, it is in many ways a different hike, at the very least you see the other side of the trees.
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Mt. Katahdin would be a lot quicker to climb if its darn access trail didn't start all the way down in Georgia.
"Bag nights" has no special meaning. If you want to impress people than do bag nights with no supplies. Live off the land. I don't care how many times you spend out in the woods, you are not a survivalist, your just someone that carried all your creature comforts out in to the woods.
P.S. I'm not speaking specifically to your camping strategy, this includes the most UL of hikers. So, this issue of bag nights is kind of meaningless, you're just surviving off the luxuries of modern civilization.