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If I can average 1.5km/hr with gear at 9hr/day this hike will take 4.5 years.
1.5km/h is super slow, no?
You aim for 50km a day when you’re backpacking (5 an hour, 10 hours a day)
But there are some pretty hot climates you are walking through and water will be scarce
You have to allow for the countries where you'll be jailed for spying (because fuck you) which will lower your average.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13279721/Brit-run-entire-length-Africa-survived-robbed-gunpoint-hostage-machete.html
could be worse,
I occasionally do long walks, but I know, when I do 30km that day, I need 2 days to recover and 3 months to be willing to do that shit again.
50km a day? Call an ambulance at 40km.
Half that is more realistic. You have to sleep, rest, eat, buy supplies, get lost, etc. There will be bad terrain, mountains, bad weather, etc. as well.
Yeah, it is. Average walking speed is like 4 - 5 km/h. 30km/day is a good marching speed. So, 2.4 years, assuming 30km a day, 6 days a week.
I think that was taken into account in their calculation and the 1.5km/h wasn't an average including rest hours but only the speed while actually walking.
Experienced hikers average a greater speed than that even if you average it over 24 hours, so including sleeping time. Someone who can only walk 15km (that's slightly more than averaging 1.5km/h for 9 hours) a day would never go on a journey like that, and even if they did, they'd be much faster after a few weeks. So there's no situation where that calculation makes sense.
My estimate wasn't great, but I'm also thinking about mountain hikes with gear covering large elevation changes in respect to my quoted speed. I guess the varied terrain would averaging things out.
That's an average over the 9 hours, so including breaks.
It's probably on the low end. Gear weight, elevation change, rough terrain, and breaks will affect overall speed.
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