Interesting article from Outside magazine's website about an app that logs your mileage walked and illustrates where you would be on the AT if you walked that distance on trail.
Interesting article from Outside magazine's website about an app that logs your mileage walked and illustrates where you would be on the AT if you walked that distance on trail.
distance is one thing. elevation and weather are quite a different animal. but I get the "appeal."
https://tinyurl.com/MyFDresults
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General
I can see all kinds of new arguments on what constitutes a virtual thru-hike.
So would that be Schrodingers Hike?
No desire for that AT app, as I can't visualize very many parts of the AT, but I "hike virtually" all the time. In a sense.
Perhaps this is off-topic, but put me on a Cybex Arc trainer, or just a boring section of trail without a preponderance of rocks(I do seek those out!), and in my imagination, I'm in Utah's high desert, the Colorado Rockies, or maybe just one of my favorite places on the Cumberland Plateau, where I know there's an arch or waterfall just around the corner. Sometimes I imagine I'm mountain biking the trail I'm hiking(dang, this walking stuff is slow!).
Does anyone NOT daydream while hiking a trail section that doesn't offer much stimulation?
I kinda want to get a GoPro, and make mountain biking videos to pedal along with on the stationary bike in my living room when it's pouring down rain.