• @Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    215 days ago

    Experienced hikers average a greater speed than that even if you average it over 24 hours, so including sleeping time. Someone who can only walk 15km (that’s slightly more than averaging 1.5km/h for 9 hours) a day would never go on a journey like that, and even if they did, they’d be much faster after a few weeks. So there’s no situation where that calculation makes sense.

    • @satans_methpipe@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      114 days ago

      My estimate wasn’t great, but I’m also thinking about mountain hikes with gear covering large elevation changes in respect to my quoted speed. I guess the varied terrain would averaging things out.