[pct-l] Trail Snacks with Horsepower

[Reinhold Metzger]

Yes Switchback,
I remember those days....with Indians, Grizzlies, and Saber toothed 
Tigers and the bones of hikers littering the trails.
That was a time when mountain men were still mountain men and only the 
hard core dared to roam the wilderness and were in high demand by  "on 
the trail to long"  hiker babes.
I remember them  ''on the trail to long"  hiker babes always being in  
"Hot Pursuit"  of us, but we always managed to outrun them.....that's 
how we got to be so fast.

But Switchback, you and I are getting old and I am afraid sooner or 
later them  "on the trail to long"  hiker babes
will catch us and have their way with us.

JMT Reinhold
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On 3/9/2011 2:53 PM, hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
> Sugar Mama wrote: I say it doesn't get any better than that ANYWHERE 
> woohoo! are we hiking yet?
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> Switchback replies: Yes, knocking out 6 miles before 8 AM makes hiking 
> a joy.  The smart hiker will divide the day into thirds.  The first 
> third will be from 5 AM to 10 AM.  The second third will be from 10 AM 
> to 3 PM.  The last third is from 3 PM to 7 PM.  This is a nice 
> strategy.  You can cover 18-26 miles a day easily after you ramp up to 
> your power speed.  This usually takes about 2 weeks on the trail 
> depending on your conditioning.  Of course, later in your long 
> distance hike, you can easily cover 25+ miles per day.
> Nut Boy Reinhold and I use to do this before lunch out on the trail 
> depending if we had a delay for Indian fighting.  Then we would only 
> cover 45 miles a day.  Many a time we did the _PCT Triple B_.  But 
> that was before records, civilization, etc.  But doing the the PCT 
> Border to Border to Border is a piece of cake if you are really hardcore.