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Gave myself a big pat on the back for this one. By far the furthest I have ever walked in one day. I wanted to give my new backpack a proper comfort test, so loaded it up with my base weight and food for one day and went on an all day hike while keeping it on basically the whole time, unless filtering water or grabbing a snack. I stopped for 30 minutes combined across the whole day.
It was fucking roasting and I wore a sun hoody for the first time. Really liked it and liked it so much that I think I'm going to buy a hiking umbrella. Lol.
I am intrigued to know A) how much faster I'd have done it with a day pack and B) how much fresher would my legs have felt having not had a backpack.
On the back of this, I've decided to do my first thru hike in April, on the Backbone Trail in the Santa Monica Mountains. It's only 67 miles, but I think it'll be good. Close to home and there's phone signal for most of it, meaning it's not quite as isolated as many other long distance trails around here.
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