[pct-l] Mathematics of the PCT

[calliger at infolane.com (Richard)]

Someone, clearly, has too much time on their hands! Why to
write 218 words, 983 characters with no spaces or 1,204 with spaces,
in 20 lines, is without a doubt proof positive of too much time.
Go take a hike!

<smiles>

Richard


At 07:16 PM 6/2/03 EDT, Bighummel@aol.com wrote:
>2,650 miles is 13,992,000 feet.  If your stride is 2 feet long then you will 
>take nearly 7 million steps!  If you're lucky and happen to have a three foot 
>stride then you will save approximately 2.3 million steps!  Of course, in 
>order to have a three foot stride you might have to be 6'9" and then all of
your 
>equipment and clothes will be larger and therefore heavier and then you will 
>require more calories in order to carry all of that and so, perhaps, the
amount 
>of calories burned per mile is a realitive constant.  
>
>One other thing about this; the chances that you will take every one of those 
>7 million steps without turning an ankle, twisting a knee, falling and 
>breaking your hip or wrist or leg or ankle or shoulder blade or
accidentally falling 
>upon your ice axe, is pretty small.  Thus in calculating what it takes to 
>thru-hike the PCT a significant percentage must be assigned to "fate".   I
will 
>wager that a significant number of people who intend to thru-hike and do not 
>succeed succumb to "fate".  What does this mean to someone planning on hiking 
>the PCT?  I suggest that it means two things; 1) Be prepared and 2) Be
flexible.
>
>Late Spring musings,
>
>Greg "Strider" Hummel
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