I can relate to the inner nerd comment. I'm 65 and have been planning and executing trips for almost 50 years. I find the planning and prep to be half the fun.
Marion Davison (aka llamalady)
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As I am working thru the amazing amount of logistics on my first major thru hike Planning travel both air public and private transportation, where to camp, food drops, ?spreadsheeting daily meals and tracking Calories and macronutrients I am discovering at age 60 my inner nerd I never knew existed.
John by tracking snowfall and correlating hiker reports on mosquitoes takes it to a whole new level. American volunteerism at its best. De Tocqueville would be proud. Thanks.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 9:22 AM John Ladd <johnladd@... <mailto:johnladd@...>> wrote:
We are analyzing that right now from the survey. It looks like
reported mosquito severity is much lower with trailhead entries
starting about July 15 in the low snowpack years.
Later, of course, in the high snowpack years. Also start later in
high snowpack years.
For the gradually growing reports of year-to-year problem
correlations see this FB album or Drive folder. We will add
entry-date seasonal comparisons soon to the same album and drive folder
Also found in this shared Google Drive album
Go to
Open folder #6
Open folder Multi-year reports
I've had a lot of volunteers from one of the FB groups to take on
survey-related or drive-maintenance tasks. I was surprised and
pleased to get a number of people who have taken on specialized
tasks that I don't know how to do and people willing to do
relatively boring stuff that relieves my load so I can focus on the
survey
What I still need is
Someone with experience in drawing non-linear trend lines in
scattergraphs that conform to the data rather than to any particular
standard math pattern (e.g., I don't know that any of my findings
are exponential). The effects of pack weight on daily mileage are
very non-linear and age-related problems are presumably also
non-linear with problems decreasing up to at least age 55 or 60 and
perhaps increasing after that (age 70 in my personal experience)
Someone who could develop predictive models (presented as online
calculators) that would use survey data to give an estimate of
something like expected daily mileage given relevant factors like
age, pack weight, pre-hike exercise, body mass index.
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