The 2023?!?! Cyclical totals discussion thread.

[Jim]

How are things progressing this year? In keeping with the idea that you are only as good as the numbers you post, I'm up to 61,436' of elevation for the year and a modest 132 miles.

Added August 2019: Looking back 10 years later, I honestly can't think of anything more offensive or unhealthy to say about one's hiking, than the above statement. Thats was my OP in 2009. Hiking should never just be about the stats recorded.

January 31, 2023: Have at it.

[PatrickL]

My stats have slacked beyond repair. Then again, some miles are better than no miles.

[FOTG]

@chumley
I don't know how my stats compare, nor do I know how to keep come to think??...but pretty sure my dogs are somewhere near elite status, they always do twice the hike I do although, that dog that just made base-camp at Everest, kind of made my dogs look pretty normal

[hippiepunkpirate]

My stats have slacked beyond repair. Then again, some miles are better than no miles.

That's where I'm at too. Of course I frequently walk my dog around the neighborhood which doesn't get logged, and I've been playing basketball 1-2 times a week lately so I'm in better shape than my HAZ stats indicate

[azbackpackr]

@chumley
I don't know how my stats compare, nor do I know how to keep come to think??...but pretty sure my dogs are somewhere near elite status, they always do twice the hike I do although, that dog that just made base-camp at Everest, kind of made my dogs look pretty normal

Do you post all your hikes with miles and AEG? If so, your stats appear at top of this page, and also up there you can click on "triplog Analysis" and check out other people's.

[garyc57]

@chumley
I don't know how my stats compare, nor do I know how to keep come to think??...but pretty sure my dogs are somewhere near elite status, they always do twice the hike I do although, that dog that just made base-camp at Everest, kind of made my dogs look pretty normal

I remember a triplog here where someone suggested strapping the GPS on the dog, and seeing what kind of stats they get. With as much running around as my black lab does in the first 2 miles, I'm sure that would be an impressive figure!

[FOTG]

@garyc57

I remember a triplog here where someone suggested strapping the GPS on the dog, and seeing what kind of stats they get. With as much running around as my black lab does in the first 2 miles, I'm sure that would be an impressive figure!

could also be an expensive hike, if GPS falls off.. I thought about that a few times though.

[BobP]

This will be the first year that I won't meet my goal . My goal is to always do more miles then I did the previous year. Its a height thing. ;) My ankle injury kept my running numbers down this year except for last month and hopefully this month. My hiking miles right now are at about 1,100 miles with 400K of aeg. So my new goal is to have aeg of over 500k this year for all self-propelled miles and I only need about 40k more.... so that should be attainable .

Sidenote...I logged my most HAZ miles ever last month and gained about 4pds

[Jim]

My goal, and it is a big part of what is keeping me hiking right now, is to try and top 325,000'. At the very least, 320,000' seems nearly a given, so 325,000' is something to shoot for. It is December, so 330,000' is probably pushing it.

[Hippy]

Ya know, start of January a certain someone gave me an idea for a "goal" I believe it was 20 miles a week...which would put me at 1040 miles for the year I think...Not sure If I met my 20 mile week goal but I sure hiked the hell out of The Grand Canyon and I'm glad I did! What a blast the past 9 months or so have been...with well over 900 GRCA miles above and below the rim, what a fun time! I'll be sad to leave next week, suppose I'll have to find something else to hike the hell out of...maybe if 9L HAZn't worn the trail out on Camelback I'll try that out for a while next year. Cheers all!

[imike]

2013 was intended to be a hiking year... but... alas. Too many distractions and lost months. Getting nailed with some high altitude illness in early April lost me a couple of months... then, lost a couple more in the summer trying to be responsible and work on my long delayed project. I'm picking up some momentum as the year closes out. No longer mileage efforts yet, but I'm getting out the door. Highlight has been to enjoy so many new routes... averaging over one per week for the year.

Oddly enough, my elevation gains for the year may score high enough to have rated first place for all the years of the site prior to when I joined in 2008. folks seemed to have geared up starting in 2009.

Personally... I find a year with around 400,000' probably ideal for general health and vitality. Beyond that... I'm probably having too much fun.

[autumnstars]

My goal this year was originally just to exceed last year's total by 100 miles hiked. Now, it seems reasonable to think I will exceed by 150 miles.
Don't know what next year's goal will be. Since I only record and keep track of non-work miles hiked, it gets harder and harder to have the time to get those miles each time I increase my goal. I will have to start doing longer hikes. Or laps, or something - there is a small park near my house ;)

[kingsnake]

I didn't have a goal until a month or two ago, when I realized it would not be too diificult to get 101 hikes for the year. Not as many as my cardiologist would prefer, but still more than the last two years combined.

[Jim]

I have a moving target of 330,000'. That would put me over 900 miles, too. If 330,000' comes with time in the year, then perhaps 335,000'. I would like to surpass 328,040', so I can tell my German neighbors I exceeded 100,000 meters. I guess I'm well over 1,000 kilometers, but again, distance is not so important to me.

[Jim]

Hmm, curious thing which indicates how often I do the same hikes over and over: my number of unique hikes is at it's second lowest value. Only 2009 was lower, but I was also lower by almost 100,000' of AEG that year. Sort of points to doing more training or fitness hiking, I think, as I would tend to do the same stuff for time and return, vs. new, exciting, entertaining, or beautiful hikes simply for that purpose.

[chumley]

I would tend to do the same stuff for time and return, vs. new, exciting, entertaining, or beautiful hikes

I think you're afraid of new and exciting hikes for fear that you'll be disappointed if they don't look exactly like this: http://14ers.com/images/trips/2013/14604_20_l.jpg
;)

[Jim]

I did do Elden (probably) over 200 times, Humphrey over 84 times, and Ortega is already at 42 times. I think I just find a few convenient ones, and beat them to death. If I was in Tucson, Finger Rock, Ventana, and Pusch would probably be done a lot, by me.

Then again, I was shocked to see that Joe has over 1250 hikes on Piestewa Peak. You hear about people like RichardP, who did Mount Whitney every week for a year and over 100 times, and some of the perennial guides on Grand Teton and Rainier who probably logged over 100 summits on those mountains, but over 1000 of anything is pretty impressive. THAT is beating it to death.

[mazatzal]

I think that unique trails hiked is more about location and the choices available versus anything else. Personally I like new places rather than old ones but I'm running out. Time to move elsewhere or get over it?

[FOTG]

@mazatzal
I feel that way about my beloved Supes, hiked 138 miles in Supes last month and never got bored, however, I do feel it is time for me to find some new destinations..I have a 1.2 mile section of trail to complete in Supes and thats it as far as established trails go... yet, every time I go to Supes, I think of two new hikes I want to do out there and there still never seems to be a dull moment, ie: Sunday with Wally..

most casual hikers assume the Supes consists of First Water and Peralta TH..people always tell me, oh ya I have done Supes, went to Freemont saddle nine years ago..but I didn't know you could camp out there lol..so so so much more than the needle, in fact, in terms of size the Supes dwarf most other wilderness areas in AZ, although, I think Matzals are nearly 100,000 square acres larger????

[chumley]

Mazzies are 58% larger than the Supes

Arizona's Top 6 (5)
Cabeza Prieta: 803,418 acres
Kofa: 516,200
Organ Pipe Cactus: 312,600 (adjacent to Cabeza Prieta, so they are really over 1.1 million acres together)
Mazatzal: 252,390
Superstition: 159,757
Arrastra Mountain: 129,800

Kofa and Organ Pipe are cheaters though ... there are a spider web of open roads that traverse the wilderness, which I think sort of defeats the purpose.
Cabeza also has a couple of roads through it, but even divided up, the roadless areas in Cabeza still make it larger than the Mazatzal.

[azbackpackr]

@mazatzal
I feel that way about my beloved Supes, hiked 138 miles in Supes last month and never got bored, however, I do feel it is time for me to find some new destinations..I have a 1.2 mile section of trail to complete in Supes and thats it as far as established trails go... yet, every time I go to Supes, I think of two new hikes I want to do out there and there still never seems to be a dull moment, ie: Sunday with Wally..

most casual hikers assume the Supes consists of First Water and Peralta TH..people always tell me, oh ya I have done Supes, went to Freemont saddle nine years ago..but I didn't know you could camp out there lol..so so so much more than the needle, in fact, in terms of size the Supes dwarf most other wilderness areas in AZ, although, I think Matzals are nearly 100,000 square acres larger????

Don't worry. Most people have no idea what backpacking is. I was moving out of my house recently, and some neighbors were helping me move. They knew I was some sort of outdoorsperson who goes hiking and backpacking. I have a very large Dutch Oven, weighs at least 20 pounds. The guy picked it up to put it in his truck, and remarked, "I guess you use this when you go backpacking?"