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RULE OF 11 AND 13

You can expect to spend 11 hours in camp: an hour in the morning, two hours at night and eight hours asleep. This leaves 13 hours for walking and resting during the day. If you are going to be walking for eight hours, that leaves five hours of breaks to scatter through the day. If you spend more than 11 hours in camp you probably aren’t making the best use of the day!

In bad weather you should consider having a lie-in but still get away between 9am and 10am, then keep walking with a few short breaks until you decide to camp. If you decide to have an easy (half) day, you are much better sticking to your morning hiking routine and then camping, rather than making a late start and walking when it is hot.

Early starts can be difficult to achieve after a night in town. By the time you’ve eaten breakfast in the restaurant or with your trail angel hosts, you might find it is already rather late. It is difficult to maintain good walking patterns if you spend many nights indoors. It takes more discipline than most hikers possess to get away from town between the hours of 6am and 7am. The author tries to arrive in town in time for a late breakfast in a restaurant, spends the hottest part of the day in town and then hikes into the evening. If you follow that example, you can get a couple of meals in town, sort out supplies and still walk in the coolest part of the day, as well as saving yourself a lot of money.