View Full Version : what's the shortest hiking day you've ever done? not including zero days
So we know what the longest days were. What is your shortest day ever.. exclusive of zero days.
For me. it was the shelter before Bascom Lodge to bascom Lodge.. maybe 3 miles!
DavidNH
MyName1sMud
09-15-2011, 15:34
Ha! That's a pretty short day right there
Just a Hiker
09-15-2011, 15:51
My absolute shortest day ever on the trail is from the Dirt Cowboy in Hanover, NH to just inside the woods on the other side of the Dartmouth soccer field. Can't be more than a mile I suppose, and waaaay more fun than my longest day ever.
3.3 from Maine 15 to the blueblaze to Monson
johnnybgood
09-15-2011, 16:05
One quarter mile , maybe . I wanted to hike but was not feeling well and decided wisely enough to scrap my planned hike about a quarter mile from the car.
Plodderman
09-15-2011, 16:07
I did a three mile day this year in my hike form Harpers Ferry to Ashley Gap
Destiny2012
09-15-2011, 16:09
0.5 miles.
Mr. BuffaloMan
09-15-2011, 17:10
.3 into Kent, CT then back .3 to the shelter after the "short stop in town" turned into a "REALLY LONG stop in town".
ChinMusic
09-15-2011, 17:13
Stepped out of the car on a dayhike and realized how damn hot it was..........and got back in.
6 feet
paistes5
09-15-2011, 17:17
I thought about going for a hike one day but decided against it. Does that count?
Slo-go'en
09-15-2011, 17:22
I guess to the privy and back doesn't count.
The .8 to the NOC would be mine too, with a number of other "under a couple of miles" near0's thrown in. I suppose we've all had days like that.
.8 miles into the NOC
Oh yeah, I did one of those too!
.3 into Kent, CT then back .3 to the shelter after the "short stop in town"
LOL... Yup, I also did one of these.
Chaco Taco
09-15-2011, 18:01
.5 miles to the road and hitched into town
Does it count as negative miles if you hiked in the wrong direction?
WingedMonkey
09-15-2011, 19:02
From the Holy Family Hostel in Pearisburg to the Rendezvous Motel 2.8 miles. It was pouring rain, I had a late start and I was in no mood to get back on the trail.
.3 from road to shelter in...Kent...in an incredible downpour.
Blissful
09-15-2011, 22:56
.5 mile out of Overmountain Shelter, turned around in high wind and rain, went back to the shelter and spent a miserable day of pacing to keep warm and had no food. Worst day of 2007.
Chinmusic.. that's awesome!! got out of car.. found it too hot.. got back in! Gave me a good laugh!!
.8 miles into the NOC
Likewise. NOC is popular!
Snake Farm
09-16-2011, 09:19
I did a one mile day from Jim & Molly Denton shelter to Linden, VA and we stayed at some guys house there. Awesome day!
Two Tents
09-16-2011, 10:02
Once when solo winter camping in the Catskills I woke up, did the breakfast thing, packed up and made one last cup of coffee. I was going to bag a couple of peaks on a loop hike/2 nd over niter. Then the feces contacted the ventilator and it started to freezing rain so I moved to the other end of the lean-to and watched as 1.5 inches of ice formed on EVERYTHING. I had to slide out the next day for real. So I went about 10 feet that day. A good day!
mirabela
09-16-2011, 19:34
On my '91 thru hike two other guys and I camped on the west bank of the Kennebec. We forded in the morning, and spent the next day & night at the hostel over the general store in Caratunk. Total distance about 0.3 miles. It was an exhausting crossing.
Jim Adams
09-17-2011, 00:38
2002 .2....tore down camp, hiked up the trail and found a beautiful campsite...and stayed.
1990 I hiked .8 down the trail and then .8 back to my camp w/o moving camp...to the beer distributor...3 days in a row!
geek
.5 mile out of Overmountain Shelter, turned around in high wind and rain, went back to the shelter and spent a miserable day of pacing to keep warm and had no food. Worst day of 2007.
Blissfull so it's raining like crazy out side.. cold as hell.. no one is in shelter with you.. you have no food.. and the whole day and night to kill. Man hiking just can't get any worse than that! Hope you at least had a book to read.. just to keep sanity!
I took a nero in Gorham, NH and the next day when I started hiking towards the trail I turned around before I left the hotel parking lot and took a full zero. Until I hit Glencliff I had been averaging 25-26 miles a day but the Whites just flat kicked my butt and I needed a good rest before I hit ME.
But, last Thursday was my shortest "real" hiking day - 4 miles from Spivey's Gap to No Business Knob shelter. I'm amazed I made it that far - I had a CBC done Friday after I got back and my hemoglobin is 10.8 and dropping. :)
In 78 the gig broke his leg one morning. Not sure if we were in NC or Tenn, what happened is we vectored in a Marine Dust off even though we were ex 508 & 325 from the 82nd. All I got to say is thank you to the Marine who was covering the radio.
A group of us got a ride from Waynesboro back to skyline drive where we noticed a group of previous thru hikers had set up some trail magic. After they stuffed us full of food and beer, it started to rain and we all went back into town to the hotel. Probably walked about 50 feet from where we were dropped off to the trail magic. That was a good day.
.2 -- Watauga Lake Shelter to Watauga Lake. Left the shelter late and met a crew set up right on the lakeshore. Dogs, beer, music. The next day, Watauga Lake to Damascus was my longest day, 41 miles.
CrumbSnatcher
09-18-2011, 19:01
i woke up to an all day rain at Eliza brook shelter, there was a couple that was tented out in front of the shelter, they head over to the creek to check it out
then they went back to break camp, 45 minutes later when they made thier way back to the creek, it was raging, then they went back to set up thier tent.
they might of gained a foot or two on the trail, from the previous day
BigHodag
09-18-2011, 21:43
2 miles.
This year, after sectioning New Jersey, I blistered my feet badly on the section between the NY/NJ line and NY 17A. Made it to Wildcat and then decided to call off my hike as I was largely disabled. Took me about 2 hours to cover the 2 miles to NY 17A.
Should have stealth camped closer to the highway and had a 200 yard day.
Feral Bill
09-18-2011, 23:08
Tiorati circle to what's now Wm. Brien Shelter. Maybe a mile on snowshoes. Nice overnight with my dad.