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by Xophmeister 1806 days ago
One could easily walk 20km in 8 hours.
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At an average pace you could walk 20km in half that time
When I was growing up, we walked that to school each day, uphill, in a snowstorm!
Oh, you lucky bastards! I could dream of walking to school. We were taking lessons in the snowstorm.
Luxury!
5km per hour is easily doable, I believe. A group of us in high school once did that and covered about 105kms in 3 days. We walked just about 7 hours every day for those 3 days.
My great-great-grandfather in the late 1800s got a land grant. I'm trying to work out how he got the farm started, because apparently he used to catch the train from his labourer job in the bit city, then walk 70km to his land.
And with the right preparation you could collect methane too.
Underrated comment.
more like 3-4 hours at max, this seems terribly inefficient