If you were to go out on a hike/walk for pleasure, what's long to you?

[DawnM]

Depends on the context.

 

If we drive to our local mountain area for the day, a 4-5 mile hike seems reasonable.  Anything else is long.

 

If we are in Philmont Scout Ranch on a 100 mile 7 day hike, I suppose 9 miles would be considered short.

 

HAHAHA!!!!!!!!

[mommymilkies]

It entirely depends on the terrain, company (little kids take like 5x the time to walk a distance), and weather.  Where we are now, it's a lot steeper terrain, and colder, so 1 mile is far to me.  Back in IL we would walk like 5 miles and barely bat an eye.   

[Bluegoat]

I tend to think of time rather than distance.  If it is just me or I am with other adults, I would probably go for about two hours.  When I have all my kids with me, I tend to limit it to about an hour, and I don't assume I will get far.

 

For a longer than two hour walk I would be planning something a little more serious, I'd want water-bottles and maybe a snack, that sort of thing. 

 

 

[Rachel]

Depends on the context.

 

If we drive to our local mountain area for the day, a 4-5 mile hike seems reasonable. Anything else is long.

 

If we are in Philmont Scout Ranch on a 100 mile 7 day hike, I suppose 9 miles would be considered short.

 

HAHAHA!!!!!!!!

My great uncle was the director of Philmont many years ago.

[Laurie4b]

We hike fairly short hikes (1 hour or so) most often. So a long hike to our family would be 2+ hours.