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Met a guy in the Wind River Range who swore by hiking 30 miles a day
I was on day three of the Cirque of the Towers loop last September, filtering water at Big Sandy Lake. This older guy, maybe 60, rolled up with a tiny pack and told me his plan was to do the whole loop in two days. He said, 'If you're not covering ground, you're just camping.' I stuck to my seven-day plan and saw way more. Who's right, the speed hiker or the slow traveler?
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kelly618d agoMost Upvoted
Reminds me of people who treat a cross country road trip like a checklist. They brag about doing it in three days but all they saw was asphalt. The point gets lost when you make it a race.
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evan_nguyen237d ago
Wait, they drove across the whole country in just three days?
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