What is it: 53km "day" hike with 2800m of up elevation.
How long: 17 hours
This trail is a 53km loop in the White Mountains Range in New Hampshire. We left at 4:45 am in the morning, all enthusiast about the incoming day of hiking. When I thought of doing 53km in a day, I thought of gentle hike with clear paths. But Pemi loop is not exactly made for the gentle hiker. Most of the path much better described as rock climbing than hiking. We were quite lucky as it was supposed to rain for the day and it didn't until we were almost finished (i.e. only 2 hours before we arrived). But it rained the day before and the rocky path was slippery almost everywhere which significanlty slowed us down as we had to pay extra attention to avoid injuries.
We started with tons of food, nuts, gatorade powder, granola bars, and other indispensible items for such a long hike. Well, at least, there was some left at the end, showing that we could have hiked at least 6 hours more, notwithstanding how exhausted we were at the end. I have to congratulate one of our mates that made it till the end even though he was not training for any marathons at that time.
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