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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 5365025" data-attributes="member: 4348">You guys are frikken joking, are WAAAAAY out of shape!!!In the woods, with undergrowth, it MIGHT be one mile an hour, MORE likely 2 miles an hour.If it's relatively clear...or on a trail it's 4 miles an hour...3 miles if I'm with slowpokes.Considering adventurers would HOPEFULLY be in better shape then I am even...I'd say at leat 40 miles a day with a 10 hour day (they want to get someplace).  However if we say they only rest for 8 hours (we can even say 12 hours so they have time to set up camp and such) that's still somewhere between 36-48 miles.PS:  And yes, that IS sustained.  For short bursts I have friends that will run or jog and that speeds it up to 5 or 6 miles an hour (my dad is insane).  The actual runners do far more...but they aren't burdened by backpacks either when they do their little marathons).PPS:  From the responses I take it that NONE of the responders are actually backpackers?  If I had a group that went that slow and weren't a bunch of kids...I'd never go on another backpacking trip with them...maybe a slow camping trip but not a serious hike...we'd never finish the hikes!  Much less the mountain climbing...we'd be lucky to get to the far off mount before we'd have to turn back because we ran out of time!</blockquote>