Timeline for How to grade a trek?
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| Oct 27, 2015 at 15:48 | comment | added | Sebastiaan van den Broek | That's true and yeah in the Netherlands itself you cannot really build up experience like that. No need to change it on my behalf ;) I'm expecting this conversation to be removed btw, it's a little off-topic by now. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 15:43 | comment | added | gerrit | @SebastiaanvandenBroek I'm sure you and me would not consider 20 km a long hike ;-) I was just trying to think if there could be anything that would render a hike in The Netherlands difficult. We don't have a lot of scrambling, loose stones, lethally deep precipices, challenging navigation, locations hours away from civilisation, unbridged river crossings, glacier crossings, bears, flash floods, deserts, steep slopes, long slopes, bush-whacking, or other hazards, so the only factor I can think of is length. I can replace 20 km by 35 km if that makes you happy :-) | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 15:26 | comment | added | Sebastiaan van den Broek | @gerrit fair enough, I do think we are probably worse at height differences just because we'd only see it on holidays. On flat terrain I don't think it would apply but that's just my gut feeling. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 15:06 | comment | added | gerrit | @SebastiaanvandenBroek I have no statistics on Dutch sportliness compared to average sportliness, but my subjective impression is that Dutch are below average hikers and that many would find 20 km a long hike. My subjective impression is based on logbooks and hikers I meet in the Alps, Scandinavia, and Canada, where I appear to meet more Swiss and Czechs than Dutch. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 14:46 | comment | added | Sebastiaan van den Broek | Why the comment suggesting the Dutch would find a 20 km route difficult, even when all flat? I'd say we're above-average on sportiness even without long trails in the country itself. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 0:16 | comment | added | gerrit | See also my other, more specific answer. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 16:56 | comment | added | Ricketyship | Brilliant. If I were to summarize what you answered, a trekking route is not just subjective to the people involved but also to the region involved. And hence, the criteria or attributes can vary based on the region as well as "who grades a trek". | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 16:54 | vote | accept | Ricketyship | ||
| Oct 22, 2013 at 14:11 | history | answered | gerrit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |