Another hiking term from Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail (Bookshop|Amazon) by Barney Scout Mann is hiker’s midnight, which actually denotes a time closer to 9 p.m. After you’ve hiked a good 20 miles, you’ve set up camp, and the sun has dropped below the horizon, it doesn’t take long for it to feel like the middle of the night has already arrived. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Hiker’s Midnight Means 9 p.m. after a Long Day on the Trail”
Another hiking term I came across in the book Journeys North by Barney Scout Mann is hiker midnight.
Any guess what hiker midnight is?
Hiker midnight. Wow.
I don’t know. I’m kind of thinking about halfway between when you put up your tent and when you get up, which isn’t necessarily the middle of the night since you often set up your tent well before dusk and you often get up well before dawn.
Yeah, that’s pretty much it.
Barney says it’s 9 p.m.
You’ve hiked 20 miles or 30 miles and midnight comes at 9 p.m. You are just out.
Oh, yeah.
There’s none of this romantic sitting around the fire until the early hours because you’re just finished.
You’re beat.
Yeah.
Hiker midnight.
