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<h2 class="regtext">Walking</h2>
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Until the 20th century it was customary for active men to walk 30 miles a day in wilderness settings.
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Henry Hind's
<a href="https://archive.org/stream/jstor-1798466/1798466_djvu.txt">Exploration up the Moisie River,
to the Edge of the Table-land of the Labrador Peninsula</a> (1864)
describes snow-capped peaks "distant two days' journey in snow-shoes (about 60 miles)."
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In his introduction to the
<a href="https://archive.org/details/firstcrossingofg00nansuoft">First Crossing of Greenland</a>
(1890), arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen calculated that, while pulling 200 lb sledges across
unexplored snowfields, that he expected "a daily average from fifteen to twenty miles, which is exceedingly
little for a 'skilober'".
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Lewis and Clark relate
<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8419/8419-h/8419-h.htm#link32H_4_0310">a discussion (July 26, 1806)</a>
in which the Minnetares
"informed us that from hence to the establishment where they trade on the Suskasawan river is only
6 days easy march or such as they usually travel with their women and childred which may be estimated
at about 150 ms."
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Similar distances appear in realistic fiction, such as Jack London's
<a href="https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/to-build-a-fire.pdf">To Build a Fire</a>
(1902), which recounts a day's journey of 30+ miles in the Yukon in winter.
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