{"id":8051,"date":"2024-07-19T17:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T00:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yetihikes.net\/wordpress\/?p=8051"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:37:43","slug":"pacific-crest-trail-day-116-mileage-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yetihikes.net\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/19\/pacific-crest-trail-day-116-mileage-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"PCT Day 116 \u2013 Mileage Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Day 116<\/p>

Start: Bobby Lake<\/p>

Finish: South Sister<\/p>

Daily Mileage: 50.04 (per GPS watch)<\/p>

Hiking Time: 17:23<\/p>

PCT Mile: 1968.3<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Honeybun and I had briefly discussed a few times whether or not to try a mileage challenge on the trail. Oregon is stereotyped as flat and easy, though this isn\u2019t always true. Regardless, many hikers were going to take their shot at a 24 hour challenge today starting from Shelter Cover or shortly later on trail. We weren\u2019t going to participate since we didn\u2019t want to mess up our sleep schedules by trying to hike through the night and then trying to recover after the fact. However, I proposed to Honeybun as we were nearing camp last night that we could do an \u201cold man\u2019s\u201d 24 hour challenge, and only hike during reasonable hours and not overnight. We would also take breaks and either one of us could call a tap out for any reason and we would both stop.<\/p>

Honeybun wanted to get a 42 mile day, a metric marathon in miles, but I said if we were going to do that, I\u2019d like to beat 45 miles which was my previous high, from the 4 state challenge on the Appalachian Trail. We settled on attempting a 75k since that was a relatively round number at approximately 47 miles.<\/p>

With that decided in the waning hours of the night before, we got to bed early and hit the trail just after 5, still slightly shorting our sleep.<\/p>

It turned out to be a pretty good day to try it. The elevation profiles look similar to California except for some of the bigger climbs there, but there seems to be more exaggeration in Oregon\u2019s steepness in the hiking app which I still haven\u2019t adjusted to. We headed straight up the biggest climb of the day first thing, but like many in Oregon the grade wasn\u2019t too noticeable and before we knew it we had topped out.<\/p>

The trail made gradual ups and downs over the course of the day like this, and we didn\u2019t pay much attention until later on.<\/p>

Early on, we passed through a recent burn area that appeared to be originally burned and then burned again when it was starting to recover. The ground was covered in ash and decayed trees, and it like an apocalypse scene like in video games or movies. No other burns quite had this appearance yet on the trail, and it was creepy but interesting.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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