Leg 7: Agua Dulce / Hiker Heaven to Highway 58 crossing, California
Overnighting: Tylerhorse Canyon
COMMAND CENTRAL UPDATE . . .
We've heard the Andrews will be hiking about 20 miles each day, but have you wondered how that averages out? What are the highs and lows? Lucky for you, Flanagan is wearing his fitbit, which tracks his steps, elevation gain (in flights of stairs), level of exertion, and so much more. Enjoy the following graphs of the boys' first month on the trail. Click on any picture to see it full-sized.
The hours Flanagan was up and about. Note that the bars are exclusive of one another. Let's use May 6 as a standard benchmark for these graphs. Flanagan was active for 11 hours on May 6 = 3.7 very + 5.2 fairly + 2.1 lightly. That big dip you see on May 9? That was the zero day, all day off trail in Big Bear.
Steps per day. And, yes, you are reading this correctly. The y-axis lists steps in factors of 10,000. May 6 has 56,237. Zero day on May 9 still had over 4,000 steps!
Miles per day. The "half bars" correspond to resupply / layover days, during which they hiked the morning into town or the evening after getting back on trail. Benchmarks: May 6 was 28 miles; longest day yet is May 12 with 35.25 miles.
And the height climbed. May 6 was the peak at 806 floors (approximately 9,675 vertical climb!).
Approximate calories burned. May 6 was 6005 calories. Low point on May 9 (zero day) was just under 2650.
Seeing these stats, I'm a little intimidated to go on another backpacking trip with these guys. Or, on the flip side, if they can do 25+ miles with a full pack, they should be able to do 8 miles with a double pack... I could backpack without the backpack!
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