AT Thru-hiker Study

[Johnny Swank]

I hope everyone is doing well and not melting from the summer heat. As of this morning, 390 thru-hikers have completed the survey - this is by far the largest dataset collected from a collective 804,300 miles of hiking!

I'm going to keep this survey open until 8/29, but then it's on to the data analysis stage. This will take several months to do a full-blown workup, but I'll have rough results in time for the Gathering in October.

If you know of anyone has attempted a thru-hike that still might be interested in completing a survey, feel free to send them to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KvzRwDZ93H3RTT0y1rzzhw_3d_3d


Thank you again,

-John Pugh (Johnny Swank, MEGA 2000)

[Mags]

Awesome job! I look forward to seeing the final results!

[Johnny Swank]

412. No steroids needed!

Another 30 or so will make a cumulative Million Miles of hiking represented. Too cool.

[The Solemates]

Awesome job! I look forward to seeing the final results!

me too.....

[Johnny Swank]

Me too. This is going to be one bear of a dataset to wade through, but there should be some pretty cool stuff to come out of it. I peeked at some of data a couple of days ago, and I've got thru-hikes from 1971 - last week on there.

[Johnny Swank]

Just hit 503! I'm going to collect for an additional week, but will need to cut off any more collection after 9/6. Again, thank ya'll so very much!

Again, here's the link
http://www.sourcetosea.net/thruhiker/study.html

[Johnny Swank]

Shutting her down today. 559 hikers ended up taking the survey.

[Marta]

What a great response! You've got your work cut out for you now.

Marta/Five-Leaf

[Johnny Swank]

I really didn't expect to hit anything over 300 or so. I'm floored!

[Smile]

Congratulations, will be eager to see the results! It's easy to see that lots of time and effort went into your study :)