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Originally Posted by GGG
You kind of do. You have 5-7 day stretches of back packing and then you stop at trail towns take a zero day and start going again. You have between 100-120 days of hiking and about 150 day season to hike it in. I’ve did the JMT portion over 11 days which was pretty cool but in the end it’s just a bunch of relatively easy hiking.
I don’t mean to take away from a guys life changing experience but I just find it funny how over the top he is about it.
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I guess I meant you don't get prep days and recovery day
s to bask in the afterglow of a trip, and it's hard to say how many nights you can afford to sleep in sheets.
The first few days are probably the toughest, and then you can count on a bunch of low points in the weeks/months to come. I think psychologically the big difference between a ~7-day trip and this is that you're never really just a few days away from a warm shower+cold beer+being DONE.
At the end of a weeklong trip, I always have a fairly strong desire to keep walking sleeping in a tent - but I have a much stronger desire to...not do that. The physical endurance settles in, but I imagine the first few miles after each re-supply must feel pretty trying regardless of the shower and [perhaps because of] the burger in your gut.
Personally, I'm more interested in and more impressed by ~3-week trips in the barren lands, or way more impressed (but not personally interested!) in the ####
Adam Shoalts has done