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I am curious, what is the longest day you have ever hiked, miles and hours?
Personally, my longest day was 40 miles Watuga Lake Shelter to Damascus. It took 17 hours from 9:30am to 2:30am. The next 2 days I didn't do anything but sleep, eat, and ****.
Turbo Joe
02-20-2006, 02:07
my longest day was probably in virginia not mileage wise but hours. i started off in the morning and i cant really remeber where i was i guess ill have to look it up but at the center of my day i climbed this mountian with a pond on top then passed a shelter with a privy and the view from that privy was unbeleivabal the hiked into the night and passed the shelter i planned on staying at. that was about 19 hours straight but the funny thing was that i was not going to walk the mile or so back to the shelter and the weather could have turned bad easily that night so i didn't want to stay at the top of this mountain. at the bottom i knew there were several streams close by and i knew i would have nowhere to pitch a tent so i just slept in the center of the trail because i couldn't find a good campsite. now i didn't like sleeping in the trail but some times you gotta. i made a little sign that described my situation and instructed hikers to just step over me. in the morning three people had already walked over me when my friend woke me up and said this church was going to feed us a great breakfast if we got down to the road in time. i got to the road just in time for breakfast and turned out all of these people who passed by me in the morning were all the same people i hadn't seen since springer. and they all said " so thats whats become of turbojoe"
Lone Wolf
02-20-2006, 07:10
I am curious, what is the longest day you have ever hiked, miles and hours?
Personally, my longest day was 40 miles Watuga Lake Shelter to Damascus. It took 17 hours from 9:30am to 2:30am. The next 2 days I didn't do anything but sleep, eat, and ****.
I did the exact same hike back in 93. It took 11 hours, 50 minutes. Midnight to 11:50 AM.
Squeaky 2
02-20-2006, 07:42
:banana 72 miles in 22 hours. with a full pack:banana
Lone Wolf
02-20-2006, 07:44
you da man!!:D
17.5 hours - fifty four miles. By no means a normal day, which would be around twenty odd miles and seven or eight hours of hiking. Still, it's nice to know what you can do if you have to.
Cheers,
PKH
Chef2000
02-20-2006, 10:15
25. something from Catawba to Daleville/troutdale.
30 miles a couple time in virginia:cool: neo
Kerosene
02-20-2006, 10:56
Mileage-wise: 23.5 miles from downtown Pearisburg south to Dismal Creek Falls in 10 hours last June. Lovely day, smooth trail and the first of 3 consecutive 20+ mile days on my 8-day section hike.
Duration-wise: 21 miles and something like 11 hours (including an on-trail dinner) on the northern portion of the Long Trail during my SOBO thru-hike in August 1979. Clear but cold day, rough trail, first 20-mile day ever, heavy pack.
I'm finding that I'm able to crank out more long days than I used to, even though I'm older, due to a much lighter pack. As a section hiker, the challenge is to know my body well enough that I don't push too hard, too fast in a short hike.
:banana 72 miles in 22 hours. with a full pack:banana
Oh my god! How did you do that? Where on the trail was that?
I did the exact same hike back in 93. It took 11 hours, 50 minutes. Midnight to 11:50 AM.
I like the way you diid it better. It would be nice to hike with dawn.
Squeaky 2
02-20-2006, 13:36
just to answer wings it was the smokies in a day on the AT