Bruce Olhson's HikaNation Stats
Bruce Ohlson compiled the closest thing we have to an official HikaNation mileage log. Here it is, with his comments below the tabled data.

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- Planned
Miles		 Planned
Days		 Planned
Trip
Average		 Actual
Miles		 Actual
Total
Days		 Actual
Layover
Days		 Trip
Average		 Average
Walking
Day
California 26530 8.83277 24.3 311.4013.00
Nevada 430 30 14.33 418 38.7 6 10.80 12.78
Utah 495 60 8.25 473 53.0 8 8.92 10.51
Colorado 255 60 4.25 564 60.5 14 9.32 12.13
Kansas 398 30 13.27 434 34.1 5 12.73 14.91
Oklahoma 340 15 22.67 194 15.6 2 12.44 14.26
Arkansas 341 15 22.73 265 26.6 4 9.96 11.73
Missouri 270 20 13.50 282 25.4 5 11.10 13.82
Illinois 100 10 10.00 137 16.0 4 8.56 11.42
Kentucky
to A.T.		 625 30 20.83 518 45.0 5 11.51 12.95
A.T. to
C & O Canal		 450 50 9.00 585 58.0 11 10.09 12.45
Wash, D.C.
to Atlantic		 -- -- -- 139 14.0 2 9.93 11.58
Pacific to
Atlantic		 -- -- -- 4286 411.2 69 10.42 12.52
Pacific to
Wash, D.C.		 3969 350 11.34 4147 397.2 67 10.44 12.56
- Planned
Miles		 Planned
Days		 Planned
Trip
Average		 Actual
Miles		 Actual
Total
Days		 Actual
Layover
Days		 Trip
Average		 Average
Walking
Day



    Bruce Olhson's comments below:
  1. I obtained the planned miles/days from Monty at the start of the trip.

  2. Wild inconsistency in planned trip average was never explained to me. I attribute it to two persons doing the planning and not consulting with one another.

  3. Trip average is obtained by dividing total miles by total days.

  4. Average walking day is obtained by deducting layover days from total days and dividing into total miles.

  5. Yes, I picked up 0.2 days somewhere. I don't know where and I don't want to fight about it now.

  6. We made a 4.29% error on planning miles and an 11.88% error on planning days. We hit it pretty close, if you ask me.


Scanned version of the above


And a rough look at the route:

route


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