The question of the number of miles to attempt on a day’s tramp is tempered by the several conditions of roads, trails, altitudes, hills, size of pack, if on such a trip, and physical capabilities. One records then variations in tours from the accomplishment of but two miles a day with a back pack on a woods tramp over seemingly impassable swamp to the professional achievement of the famous Weston who between his seventy-first and seventy-second birthday walked from New York to California and back at the rate of 46 miles a day. For the average business man a one to five mile tramp each afternoon is an admirable and perfectly feasible exercise: in fact this distance is covered by many in their daily activities. Take the first mile or two slowly to limber up. Daily one can increase the distance as the perfecting of the stride and endurance permits until he can cover twenty to twenty-five miles a day in road walking without injury--a feat not difficult to attempt if one is in good health. Taken as a once a week culmination to the daily several mile walk the twenty-five mile walk is as much as the inexperienced walker should take and not feel inconvenienced. For the experienced a trip of this length would be merely incidental. Three miles an hour is comfortable for a day’s trip. The infantry gait is three miles and is sufficient for the amateur who is out for his health. It is not easy to walk four miles an hour and keep it up and it is certainly too much for the novice to attempt. In estimating the rate of travel measure your pace, the average is two feet in length, and time yourself for the approximately 2500 paces per measured mile, counting the 1250 right foot implantations, and then use time for estimating distance rather than the linear measure of mileage which latter is impossible in the unmapped wilderness. If you care to be more exact the pedometer can be used. Don’t try to break the record--it is endurance not speed that counts. Be free to choose your course, and never hurry lest self reprehension come upon you. It is the traveler on foot who has the time to receive and reflect upon his impressions and at the same time pleasantly rejuvenate his body and mind. For one contemplating a long twenty-five mile or so hike it is well to choose a route where it is never necessary to march very far in a day for lack of intervening accommodations. In most of our country this is easily accomplished. The annual vacation hike can be well spent in one of our National Parks, the walkers’ paradise. Here the pedestrian can start from one of the many noted tourist centers and be certain of accommodations before the next night’s resting place: he can obtain vistas of famous scenery and gain a storehouse of pleasant memories which fully discount any hardship he may have experienced on the trail.