Ack. I’ve only done 12. I was in Rome in August of 2000 for World Youth Day, and I had to hike from my hotel to the field where the Pope would be having Mass. You’d think that transportation would have been an option, but I was there with about 8 million other kids…
Also, it happened to be the hottest recorded day in Roman history or something, (got up to 110 F, I think) so the walk seemed even longer. At least people were nice enough to spray us with hoses.
When I was a poor college student with no car, I walked 15 miles to see my girlfriend (at the time); managed to piss her off, and walked 15 miles back. This happened a couple of times.
I walked from Fredricksburg, Texas to Mason City, Texas once, with a 50 pound pack. That’s approximately 50 miles. It took almost 24 hours.
Not such a big deal as some of your walks, but I walked from 66th and West End Avenue to the World Trade Center in NYC. In sandals. It took me 2 1/2 hours. I never intended to take such a long walk. I was just heading to the subway to go home to Queens after cat sitting for a friend and it was a lovely June day so I kept telling myself I would get on the E train a little further down the line. Next thing I knew I was shoe shopping at Century 21, which is at the last stop.
19K. In the rainforest. Covered with leeches.
Started around 8 or 9 AM, stopped for lunch, finished around 5 PM.
It would have been a lot more fun if I didn’t spend the entire hike getting the blood sucked out of me.
Next time, I wear two pairs of socks.
Kn(always has to learn lessons the hard way)ckers
Down a church aisle. At my wedding.
Just the other day I did a 5 mile walk around Stone Mountain in approx. 75 minutes. I have done longer at the same basic rate, probably topping out at 12 miles.
Years ago, I did a backpack trip here in the Pacific Northwest that involved a 15-mile hike. Not a difficult distance, of course, until you factor in the 60-70 pound pack, and the fact that three-quarters of the trail was actually a sandy beach. Yes, the Pacific coast. As I recall, it took around 12 hours. Then we had to do it again five days later when we left. Exhausting.
The longest walk I’ve done recently was in San Francisco. When I have some time to kill in a new city, I find the best way to explore it is on foot. I visited New York City a couple of years back, for example, and walked from the Port Authority bus terminal down to Chelsea, then back up through midtown into Central Park to the reservoir. I did the same thing in San Francisco: from my downtown hotel all the way to the far end of Golden Gate Park and back. Not in a straight line, either; I made random zigzags back and forth to look at interesting features and neighborhoods. I have no idea what the distance is, but it took like eight hours. <obvious mode> San Francisco has a lot of hills. </om>
I wish I were in that kind of shape today. 
When I was in the Boy Scouts, I earned the 50-miler patch for taking a fifty mile hike. It was done over three days in upstate New York.
Zev Steinhardt
Used to do a lot of backpacking when I was younger. Actually, my longest one-day hike was on my very first trip, when I was 12. My Scout troop went on a backpacking trip in the Grand Tetons. The bus was supposed to drop us off at the trailhead, but couldn’t; either the road couldn’t take the extra weight after a certain point, or there wasn’t any place to turn the bus around any farther up. Anyway, the first day’s hike was only supposed to be 15 miles, but this little wrinkle made it about 25 miles. Boy, did I sleep well that night. The whole trip was awesome, though.
I’ve done this kind of thing in NYC. I figure I’ll walk to the subway and then I can’t find it, and I keep walking, and I end up walking from downtown to the Met. Y’know, after a certain point, it would just be giving up to take mass transit.
But reading the other recent posts, I suppose the real longest walks were in the Boy Scouts. Weeklong hiking trips to New Hampshire. And even the weekends: fifteen mile to the campsite, fifteen miles back out. And with packs no less. Hard to believe nowadays.
Well, it was likely about 6-7 miles in a straight line from downtown (NE) SF to the west end of the park, at the ocean- SF is a 7 mile by 7 mile square. Figuring in the neighborhoods you likely visited, I can easily believe you walked a marathon distance.
FWIW, the initial intention was to hitch a ride from Fredricksburg to Mason City - it just didn’t work out that way.
The longest I ever walked continuously was for 23.6 mi. At the start of the second half, in Hope Ranch, I hallucinated that I was the pope driving around in my little bullet-proof Popemobile. It took about 7 hours, and I did it with the person who started this thread.
longest and most fun hike ive ever done was in uganda, we had to hike for roughly 8 hours up what felt like 90 degree slopes in heavy jungle to find a group of mountain gorillias, after spending an hour with them, it was another 4 hour hike to get down off the mountain and back to camp.
Ummm… Times Square to Greenwich Village and back… How far is that? Anyone?
Longest I’ve ever done completely nonstop was 46 miles back in 1986, when I walked from Queens Village at Cross Island Parkway/Hillside Ave down Jamaica Ave (which became Jericho Turnkpike) to Hicksville; swapped to an access road parallel to the Long Island Expressway and continued to Huntington exit, then north from the exit to Huntington Station, then returned by the same route.
(when I’m angry I go for long walks to sort things out in my head and get away from my surroundings).
My feet hurt almost too bad to stand up and walk on them that evening.
The longest walk I’ve ever taken was around Heart Lake in Yellowstone in 1982. It’s a 24-mile hike, and I did it in about 9 hours. My legs were like swollen Jello the next day.
13 miles a day for ten days at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. With a 60 pound pack. I still have the boots (branded, for those of you in the know). And the memory of sunrise over the Tooth of Time is burned in my brain 20 years later.
But you couldn’t pay me enough to do it again.
I regularly do 20-30 mile dayhikes in the White Mountains. Nothing like a good long dayhike to clear the head. The longest day was probably right around 30.
I’ve trekked for 280 miles in Nepal over three weeks.