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I know, sooner or later someone will try to Thru-Hike the trail in one season and may even succeed if he is lucky with the weather but . But attempting this seems foolish to me. You need to rush, and take less attractive short cuts . You can’t slow down to fully appreciate the land and to share relaxing time with the people along the route. And more importantly: someone who tries to Thru-Hike the GPT in one season needs to take unreasonable risks by throwing yourself in torrential rivers and getting high up when a blizzard blizzards can kill you. And remember, when you walk on this trail you are the guest on the land of someone else. You can’t slow down to appreciate land and share relaxing time with the people along the route. Just the idea of making a race in the backyard of someone else who does not even know feels wrong for me.

The appropriate pace on this trail network is the "appreciation pace". This pace might vary substantially between different hikers but gives you the time to make an attractive detour, i.e. to climb a summit next to the trail without worrying about your plans. This adequate rate of advance permits you to accept the invitation of a settler to share some cups of mate or to sit out a day of torrential rain in shelter with an a herdsman. This moderated moderate speed allows you to wait in front of a pass or lake if when the weather is too volatile to climb up or to paddle with your packraft.