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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasudduth/ / CC BY-NC 2.0 These are some responses to one question on my Appalachian Trail Thru-hiker Study relating to Sex on the Appalachian Trail. The question, (from Meusser’s 1989 study) was “The challenge to do the whole trail, the miles, being really tired, dirty and lacking amenities or privacy prompted one couple Just following up on my post from last week on Thru-hiker Backpacks. This was part of a large study I bagan in 2007 on Appalachian Trail Thru-hikers. Over 540 long-distance hikers, with more than a million collective trail miles were part of this study. First let’s take a look at the Packs by Brand graph. Bear [...] I started my data collection for the Appalachian Trail Thru-hiker Study at Trail Days (May, 2007) and continued to collect responses through September 2007. As such, the last year for completed thru-hikes in this study was 2006, although many 2007 hikers submitted their surveys during their thru-hikes. Pack preferences come and go, but the Granite [...] Just wading through some more data from my AT Thru-hiker Study today and wanted to share some info on pack types. Here’s the chart of the 434 responses. Let’s dig into the numbers a little bit and see what we find. OK – I’m finally, finally getting around to putting up some very preliminary numbers from my Appalachian Trail Thru-hiker Study. 532 thru-hikers participated in this study, representing over One Million Miles of cumulative experience. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be presenting some of the results, and hope to completely be through this number-crunching madness [...] In 2000, I spent six months thru-hiking the 2.000+ miles of the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia. That was a life-changing experience for me, and from the time I finished, I knew things just were not going to be the same from that point on. I made a promise to myself that every five [...] |
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