I got my hiking merit badge in Boy Scouts while we were on Nantucket, we walked for ten miles a day for the first five days, ending each hike at a beach where we could cool down. We skipped the hike on the sixth day, but on the seventh day we did a twenty mile hike. So that is a total of seventy miles in a week. It really wasn't too hard, I was still young and in good shape.
Nantucket is about 30 miles long, and 10 miles across. So we had to zig zag to be able to get in all those miles. On that island, blue berries grow everywhere, so when we got back from a day of hiking one time, the whole troop were making blue berry pies in ovens they built out of stones. That amazed me, but we really learned how to camp in Boy Scouts.
I met a girl from Switzerland on one 10 mile hike, she showed up for days at the beach where we usually ended our hikes, but the Scout Master changed our plans on the last day and we ended up somewhere else. I never saw her again. All I knew was her first name.
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JFC
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That sounds like a lot more fun than I had getting my hiking merit badge. But it also gives me an idea for a blog post... if I remember
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