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How Much Time Does it Take to Hike the Colorado Trail?

January 13, 2017 by John Nestler in Survey, Backpacking

I finished bikepacking the Colorado Trail in the fall of 2016, and quickly became interested in the average trip length of other trail users. I originally intended to analyze bikepacker trip length, but I created an online survey and 90% of the responses came from thru-hikers (57 out of 63 responses). This article examines the average length of a thru hike on the Colorado Trail as well as other factors including hiker age, gender differences, and whether hikers wished they had budgeted extra days for their trip.

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January 13, 2017 /John Nestler
Colorado Trail, thru hike, hiker, trip length
Survey, Backpacking
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