[pct-l] Question on daily miles. What is a good daily average for miles hike on the section from Kennedy Meadows to say South Lake Tahoe. If your normal daily average say is 20 miles does the High Sierra cut that down to half ? What would be a good daily average.

[Gary Minetti]

Here is a bit of information about my experience in the 392 mile section you mention.  

For context, I turned 59 on the trail and 2012 was a light snow year in the Sierras.  The light snow pack sparked my interest in trying to go from KM to VVR without resupply.  I left KM late morning on June 3 with 11 days of food - WAY TOO HEAVY - but caught the VVR ferry the morning of my 10th day out.  Resupplied, I was back on the trail on day 11 and reached So. Tahoe on June 23.   That translates to a 18/19 mile per day pace.  My other resupply during this section was at Tuolumne Meadows.

Gman.  

 
On Feb 3, 2014, at 6:27 PM, marmot marmot wrote:

> If you get up in the morning and hike all day--20 miles a day should be more like a minimum    I am assuming that you are not talking about just doing this section starting at Kennedy Meadows.  AND That you are in shape. Even when I was doing sections the long hours of light allowed this very slow hiker to do up to 26 miles a day in the Sierras   That is also when there was not much snow. Marmot
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>> On Feb 3, 2014, at 3:10 PM, "John Holtgraves" <johnholtgraves396 at gmail.com> wrote:
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