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Hoofing it with 10 days of water? You realize how much that weighs?

And I note no mention of food. 10 days of hoofing it without food isn't going to happen. A day of hoofing it with a pack burns 4000-5000 calories/day. Your body quickly depletes it's ready stores and you're down to fat reserves--and the rate that you can use those is limited.




He couldn't have been more than 40 hours walk from the coast. If the map was accurate, a lot less to a road.


Depends on the terrain. Last year there was a case in the local news of a guy who died out in Death Valley when he tried to hoof it after a breakdown. His objective was less than 10 miles from his car.

I know something of the terrain and even without looking at a map my first reaction to what he attempted was that it would be impossible even by survival standards. I do not believe the terrain could be traversed even with mountaineering gear. (Too much of it is loose material near the maximum stable angle--it won't bear weight.)




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