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Re:What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike by gaius on Thursday February 23, 2017 @09:01AM (#13713882)
The US Army's Ranger School is 8 weeks on 2 hours of sleep a night, apart from one night you are allowed 5 hours because there's a parachute jump the next day...
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Re:What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike by ska on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:46AM (#13714782)
NB: The point of things like that is to explore failure boundaries, not a sustainable activity level.
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Re:What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike by ryanmarsh on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:28AM (#13714617)
Don't forget the malnutrition and that it takes a year to recover from.
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Re:What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike by gaius on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:04AM (#13714944)
I'm just a civvy and obviously don't know anything, but I've always found what I've heard/read about Ranger School puzzling. Does it really produce something that cannot be produced any other way? Why does no other military have something like it?
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