[CS]

This is by Thomas Hiram Holding who is credited with making modern recreational camping: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Camper_s_Handbook/tkcMAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover Things I found interesting: Bike and canoe camping seem more prominently covered than pedestrian camping The “Canadian” tent weighs only 3.5lbs Average walking distance per day for people who “like to walk” was 25mi and up to 40mi Best stove, the Baby Primus

[zephyr]

[Brucester]

Camping with a capitol C!

[CS]

Yeah, isn’t that something? I suspect it was still rare to do 25, and we’d call them athletes today. But it at least means that the 20mi day was being done over 100 years ago, and isn’t new. And without cushy trail runners:)

[Pyrites]

I remember reading a letter home from a Union Army private. He talked about how it was not unusual in ‘civil life’ to walk 20, or even 30 miles in a day. He was comparing to how tiring it was to walk 10 or twelve miles as a soldier.

[Riverside Laker]

Didn’t the emigrants on the Oregon Trail do 12-20 miles per day?

[CS]

Yeah, it seems unlikely we’d be able to impress previous generations with walking far, especially considering we didn’t even have horses until recently in the grand scheme. I happen to see a video where a PCT hiker did 50 miles in a day, and amusingly concluded we weren’t designed to do that the follow day: