[pct-l] Rest Periods During A Thru-Hike

[Brick Robbins]

Powerhike? Scheduled breaks? WTF?

Walk when you feel like it.

Stop when you don't,
or when you see something you want to look at,
or when you get to water and want to refill you bottle and rinse off
the trail dust.
or want to make a meal
or sleep.

And it is zero days in towns that make a hike take too long, not time
sitting by a high alpine lake enjoying the incredible beauty.

All IMHO, HYOH, YMMV


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:25 PM, mark utzman <blackbelthiker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
>    I understand the concept of HYOH, I am just trying to learn from
> experienced thru-hikers how they do things. How often do you, on average,
> take breaks from walking? Every hour, every two hours, etc.  If I was to,
> lets say, walk for 2 hours, then take a 10 or 15 minute break, and do that
> every 2 hours, is that reasonable? Or are you powerhiking 4-5 hours at a
> stretch to get your miles in for the day? Yes, you guessed it, I'm an
> inexperienced long distance backpacker, but as I have said, I WANT TO LEARN
> FROM YOU.  Taking frequent breaks is, I think, going to be an important
> strategy for me to be able to pull this thru-hike off, unless taking too
> many breaks will take TOO MUCH time to complete such a hike. I appreciate
> any and all responses. Thank you,  Mark
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