What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike

Re:What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike by justinator on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @08:37PM (#13710909)

All these mountain bike races are self-supported, so they're actually very similar in the amount of gear carrying by someone doing a thru-hike with UL equipment, as you're carrying everything you'll need from start to finish, including your sleep system. Much of the course for say - the Colorado Trail is difficult enough you're not riding the bike: you're pushing it. This sort of thing [0]

I've actually considered trying to hike the Colorado Trail unsupported - carrying everything I'll need from the start (except water) with NO resupplies until the end. My target time would be around 9 days. If you're trying to gauge how strenuous the types of effort I put forth when I go and do the things I do.

Anyways, 8 hours seems like an easy day on the trail for sure. 8 hours hike + 8 hours sleep leaves you 8 hours for $Other_Things. Might as well hike some more!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyznXGXiSDk

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Re:What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike by bootload on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @10:31PM (#13711403)

"My target time would be around 9 days. If you're trying to gauge how strenuous the types of effort I put forth when I go and do the things I do."

These are good points. The distance this bloke covered was 800km. Every day another 30km. That is hard.

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Re:What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike by kdbg on Thursday February 23, 2017 @04:44PM (#13718099)

The current FKT for an unsupported CT hike is 9days 12hours and 32minutes. (Set this past season)

So, a 9Day pace would be a new record if you went for it.

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