Miles or Kilometers?
I am old enough to remember when Australia used the imperial system for measuring distances, and can even remember painful maths problems at school involving miles, feet, inches. I thought it was a distant memory, but here I am having to grapple with it again.
I’m afraid we will have to re-adjust our thinking/planning/blogging to use miles instead of kilometers, because all the signage and talk among hikers will be in miles. I don’t think we will see many convenient signs like the one above! (thankyou Google Images). I guess it will be like coping with a 0.71AUD/USD exchange rate.
So here’s a handy table to help you understand our posts:
| Miles | Kilometers | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | If you walk zero miles it is about the same in km 🙂 |
| 0.62 | 1 | |
| 1 | 1.61 | |
| 5 | 8 | |
| 16 | 26 | The average distance we need to cover every day |
| 20 | 32.2 | Our target distance for the first day (because of lack of campsites with water before Lake Morena). Also, about the longest distance Ros and I have hiked in Australia in one day so far. |
| 30 | 48.3 | Hard to imagine doing this in one day, but lots of hikers work up to it |
| 500 | 805 | If you just wanna be the kind of man that walks 500 miles... |
| 1000 | 1609 | ... and 500 more |
| 4265 | Approximate length of the PCT |
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