[pct-l] Hiker Fitness

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, Ro,



Like most esoteric endeavors, long-distance (LD) hiking has its share of
jargon and acronyms.  Add to that the silly acronyms of the text-messaging
age and it can be a mess.  I don’t understand most of it.  I think HMMV
means something like “…. Mileage May Vary”, for whatever that’s worth.



Annual Day Zero Pacific Crest Trail KickOff  (ADZPCTKO or KO) can be seen at
http://www.pct77.org/adz/.





Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT -- 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye


On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Romano Scaturro
<romano at swiftwireless.com>wrote:

> More good advice...thanks.  Does anyone else have a hard time with some of
> the acronyms being used?  Maybe I'm just old or stupid or both.  Or maybe my
> lack of texting skills hobbles me (I tried to do one once and it took me 5
> minutes to peck out a half dozen words...but my son got a good laugh).  What
> does HMMV mean?  Is KO--Kick Off?  And most embarrassingly, what or when is
> Kick Off?
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> Ro.
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> Good morning, Jason,
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> One good thing to do is stand back and look at the whole SoCal
> timeframe.  First,
> pick what you think will be an acceptable date to arrive at Kennedy Meadows
> – 15 June for example.  That is 50 full days from the end of the
> KickOff.  Next,
> deduct the number of zero or “nero” days you plan to take.  That might
> reduce the total from 50 hiking days to 45.  KM is at Mile-700 and that
> means you would have to average about 15.6 miles per hiking day.  That’s
> not
> too bad.  A hiker could start by averaging 10-12 miles per day and increase
> to 18-20 by KM.  To arrive at KM by 5 June the average would have to be 20
> miles per day.
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> It’s probably a good idea to go as slow as possible in those early miles
> provided one gets to KM at an acceptable date.  It doesn’t make a lot of
> sense to go fast early, then wait at KM for the snow to melt – or leave KM
> early and have a slow, difficult time trip through the Sierras.  Much
> depends upon this year’s snowpack levels and one’s appetite for snow
> travel.
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> Steel-Eye
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> Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT -- 1965
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> http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye
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> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:39 PM, jason moores <jmmoores at hotmail.com>
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>> Gadget brings up some good points:
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>> "I will say that by that point I was doing more miles than I would have
>> expected to be doing --- YMMV, but if you're in reasonable shape
>> starting out of Campo, you might well find yourself doing more than
>> you expect by, say, Warner Springs.    Also, your "thru-hiker hunger"
>> will likely not have kicked in so early on, hence you should hopefully
>> not have to carry a lot of food weight per day."
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>> Brian Lewis / Gadget '08I think that many of us would benefit from hearing
>> more on these subjects. Does anyone want to relate:There perceived fitness
>> when they arrived at the border/  How long was it before you were making
>> good (relative) miles per day / How long until "hiker hunger" set in/ How
>> long did it take for your feet to toughen up?
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>> I realize that this is all very subjective. I think that many people,
>> myself included, take some of these for granted. "I'll be eating 5000 cal.
>> per. day, doing twenty miles..." All of these things take time. I don't
>> hope
>> to gain exact information only a little broader insight into the
>> "Toughening
>> Up" process.
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>> Thanks in advance,
>> jason
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