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VANCOUVER, Wash. — Jeff Garmire of Vancouver hiked America’s three well-known long-distance routes — the Appalachian, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails — this year. He’s now a member of the elite cadre who have walked the three paths in a calendar year.
The Appalachian Trail is 2,200 miles long; the Pacific Crest Trail, 2,650 miles and the Continental Divide Trail is 3,100 miles. Total: 7,950.
Here are a few other numbers:
• He weighed 185 pounds in early February in Georgia and 160 pounds by the time he finished in New Mexico in mid-October.
• He tried to eat 6,000 calories a day.
• His base pack weighed 10 to 16 pounds depending on the season, weather and conditions. With food and water, it still weighed under 30 pounds most of the time.
• The cost of his adventure was about $10,000.
But enough with the numbers.
http://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/vancouver-man-hikes-nations-3-long-distance-trails-in-under-a-year/
The Appalachian Trail is 2,200 miles long; the Pacific Crest Trail, 2,650 miles and the Continental Divide Trail is 3,100 miles. Total: 7,950.
Here are a few other numbers:
• He weighed 185 pounds in early February in Georgia and 160 pounds by the time he finished in New Mexico in mid-October.
• He tried to eat 6,000 calories a day.
• His base pack weighed 10 to 16 pounds depending on the season, weather and conditions. With food and water, it still weighed under 30 pounds most of the time.
• The cost of his adventure was about $10,000.
But enough with the numbers.
http://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/vancouver-man-hikes-nations-3-long-distance-trails-in-under-a-year/
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Dat beard.3
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If he wasn't using a food scale to weigh his food, he has no idea how much he ate.
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trigden1991 wrote: »
Before eating back calories of course. And gosh darnit why am I not losing weight? Must be toning.8 -
trigden1991 wrote: »
Michael Phelps posted here while training for the Olympics?11 -
Damn.. I wish I had the free time and spare cash to join the "elite few" and go hiking for a year..25
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I wonder what he ate to get all those calories. It seems like a lot of food to tote around. The article doesn't say, just says he tried to eat 6000 calories a day.2
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »I wonder what he ate to get all those calories. It seems like a lot of food to tote around. The article doesn't say, just says he tried to eat 6000 calories a day.
I did about 100 miles on the appalachian trail and certainly never ate that much - in part because I didn't want to carry around any more than I needed, and in part because I wasn't really that hungry. I imagine that would have changed pretty quickly our of necessity if I'd stayed at it much longer.4 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »I wonder what he ate to get all those calories. It seems like a lot of food to tote around. The article doesn't say, just says he tried to eat 6000 calories a day.
I read an article in National Geographic many years ago about people who were trekking/working/something or other in the Arctic (it was so long ago I can't accurately remember what they were doing) and they estimated they were eating around 6,000-7,000 calories a day and losing weight. The people profiled in the article said they ate a jar of peanut butter a day, along with dried fruit and candy bars for calories.2 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »I wonder what he ate to get all those calories. It seems like a lot of food to tote around. The article doesn't say, just says he tried to eat 6000 calories a day.
Mostly freeze dried food, because it doesn't weigh much, and you can cook it quickly and easily by adding water you boiled from a creek.
He probably carried about a week of food at a time on average and re-supplied by hitchhiking to nearby towns where the trail meets a road. That's how most self-supported thru-hikers do it.6 -
That's one hell of an achievement, by the way! All three trails in the same year. I'd be proud for the rest of my life to do any one of them in a year.13
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »I wonder what he ate to get all those calories. It seems like a lot of food to tote around. The article doesn't say, just says he tried to eat 6000 calories a day.
I read an article in National Geographic many years ago about people who were trekking/working/something or other in the Arctic (it was so long ago I can't accurately remember what they were doing) and they estimated they were eating around 6,000-7,000 calories a day and losing weight. The people profiled in the article said they ate a jar of peanut butter a day, along with dried fruit and candy bars for calories.
All those jars of pb would weigh a lot!0 -
Sounds like B.S. to me.2
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Jeannie3099 wrote: »Sounds like B.S. to me.
And why would that be BS? He walked hiked nearly 8000 miles? Did you read post and article? Do you know how much energy one would require and expend during hikes such as this?10 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »I wonder what he ate to get all those calories. It seems like a lot of food to tote around. The article doesn't say, just says he tried to eat 6000 calories a day.
I read an article in National Geographic many years ago about people who were trekking/working/something or other in the Arctic (it was so long ago I can't accurately remember what they were doing) and they estimated they were eating around 6,000-7,000 calories a day and losing weight. The people profiled in the article said they ate a jar of peanut butter a day, along with dried fruit and candy bars for calories.
I think I read or heard something similar. They where putting entire sticks of butter in their oatmeal just try and get calories.1 -
I don't know...it could happen...I guess since it says "tried to," who knows how often he did eat 6000 calories in a day and if he was actually keeping a log of his food and weighing and measuring and so on. I'm sure he had to eat a lot of calories, anyway, just to accomplish that hike. So good on him for doing this...this is really cool.0
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »I wonder what he ate to get all those calories. It seems like a lot of food to tote around. The article doesn't say, just says he tried to eat 6000 calories a day.
I read an article in National Geographic many years ago about people who were trekking/working/something or other in the Arctic (it was so long ago I can't accurately remember what they were doing) and they estimated they were eating around 6,000-7,000 calories a day and losing weight. The people profiled in the article said they ate a jar of peanut butter a day, along with dried fruit and candy bars for calories.
I think I read that article too, the Will Steger expedition back in the 80's or 90's. Partially from the work and partially from the extreme cold. I grew up in Duluth, MN and he was from near that area, so got a lot of coverage.1 -
All I have done since reading this is tried to imagine what 6000 calories of something calorie dense like candy bars or cake looks like. That's a lot of food!1
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For the most part, during my first Iraq tour, we were living off MRE's at (roughly) 3,000 calories PER meal. Despite the intake, I lost weight - mostly from the demands of my mission(s) and the heat. Bottom line - yah, you can lose weight taking in no all kinds of calories, but you still need that calorie deficit to actually lose weight.18
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