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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8042070" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Distances seldom change significantly. Times vary by season, current weather, and modes of transit.If, for example, you're going from Eagle River (Alaska) to Muldoon (another township within Greater Anchorage), you're going 10 miles. That's true so long as you take the road and the bridge. If you are going by the bicycle paths, add about half a mile - they meander on a level plain beside the straighter (but still meandering) highway. Go by air, it's about 9.5 miles... but neither has an airport.That 10 miles, hiked in summer, is 3-4 hours. In winter, 5-6 hours, simply due to snow slowing hiking. Add a decent amount of pack, and the winter can hit 8 hours. Horse is an hour less... because horses actually walk just a bit more consistently Drive? 20 minutes from the house (on Parkview terrace loop N) to Muldoon Elementary at 06:15 departure. 60 minutes at 06:25 departure. 15 minutes at 14:00. 40 to 75 min the other way at 15:30, but 15 minutes at 14:00 or 17:00, but back to 45 at 17:20....Add 10% in winter, 100% if fresh heavy snow.During a particular sleet storm, the travel time was in excess of 5 hours by car... crash on the bridge resulted in 1 lane doing 5 mph instead of the 3 lanes doing 65 mph that is marked... If you didn't get run over, you could shave most of that half-mile by straighlining the course of the road...The verticality of the road bed makes for interesting construction... they leveled out the road bed a lot, but not the bike path.Medieval pilgrimage maps often looked like a straight line, with listed towns... They were useful,to a point.I've seen troops doing endurance marches along the Glenn Highway as recently as 2015.(Fort Richardson).I only do so for minimum times. Here's why:Where I sit to Guardian Games in Portland, for example, is 2.5 hours if timed right; it's 4 hours if I catch any of the rushes in between. To Waldport? About 1:10 on a good day. Road destruction can add up to several hours.To Corvallis, 30 minutes most of the time, but 1-2 times a month I get stuck for anywhere from 10 to 120 minutes.Corvallis to Albany: 10 to 30 minutes, depending upon which part to which part.Next door neighbor: 10 minute walk, 5 minute drive.I don't know the exact mileage, but I know the times, because the times are what matter for being late or not... but I can't make a map of times that has a validity and fits a 2d sheet.... because the distances in 3d space involve a lot of twists and turns, plus the speeds vary by location, traffic, and weather...20 lbs of that was worn almost all the time - that's the uniform armor. It's quite good for hiking. Wear it all the time, you get used to the mass.Roman maps were pretty decent - and they had theodelites of a fashion, so had pretty accurate mapsThat's cheating!Fundamentally, Magic makes many assumptions dubious.</blockquote>

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