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My Nitecore packs are worn out, so I went looking. The mAh on the box cannot be compared between packs, and capacity gets rated at two different points in the circuit. How to convert the numbers, line them up, and compare them, plus what the cold does to all of them.
Most route planners give you one number for pace and apply it to the whole track. You know from experience that's nonsense. A 4 km/h average means nothing when the day is a 600 m climb out of a valley followed by a knee-punishing descent on scree.
Carbs fuel the climb and fat runs the long days, but protein is what you rebuild with, and most hikers quietly under-pack it. Here are the real working targets (forget the 0.8 RDA), why distribution matters as much as total, and how to hit the number without wrecking your pack weight.
When you're new to hiking, speed looks like ambition. But the hikers who cover the most ground, come home healthy, and actually enjoy themselves are rarely the fastest ones out of the car park. Here's the science behind why going slower gets you further.
The 20% rule is everywhere in hiking advice — and it traces back to 1950s military studies on trained soldiers. Here's what the biomechanics actually show about how much you should carry, adjusted for your body weight.
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