Airplane mode + 10k battery lasts ~6-12 days, depending on the person and the phone.
There are roughly 1 or 2 thousand attempted "thru" hikes per year, who hike from southern to northern border of the USA over the course of 3-5 months. Far more "section" hikers, who will do a 1-4 week segment of a larger trail.
Such folks often resupply food and recharge their battery banks every few days.
To be fair, we'd generally call it backpacking rather than hiking. But the premise of the article was backpackers, so I didn't bother distinguishing.
That has always been a thing. If you’re hiking for several months you have to stop somewhere to buy food tens of times. Most places that sell food (e.g. towns with supermarkets) have electricity.
I'm in Australia, where most hikes top out at a week (there are a few longer ones now). I have also noticed that on the more popular/developed hikes that have shelters sometimes now provide USB charging ports.
OK; I had never considered hikes where there's a charging point along the way. I guess that's becoming a thing now.
Airplane mode + 10k battery lasts ~6-12 days, depending on the person and the phone.
There are roughly 1 or 2 thousand attempted "thru" hikes per year, who hike from southern to northern border of the USA over the course of 3-5 months. Far more "section" hikers, who will do a 1-4 week segment of a larger trail.
Such folks often resupply food and recharge their battery banks every few days.
To be fair, we'd generally call it backpacking rather than hiking. But the premise of the article was backpackers, so I didn't bother distinguishing.
That has always been a thing. If you’re hiking for several months you have to stop somewhere to buy food tens of times. Most places that sell food (e.g. towns with supermarkets) have electricity.
I'm in Australia, where most hikes top out at a week (there are a few longer ones now). I have also noticed that on the more popular/developed hikes that have shelters sometimes now provide USB charging ports.