Today I did 3 hikes!
one was pretty lame but it counted. In total I did over 3 miles on 20-35 degree inclines.
No ttoo bad I gained about 900 feet in elevation.
But I also won the Silver Presidential award.
When i get gold I can apply to be a coach!

so hiking and walking gets you something!

Hey, this is wonderful! Big congrats to you. When you said "incline" I thought
you meant you did this on a treadmill, but then the elevation thing confused
me... was this an uphill walk outside, or a treadmill? In any case, good for you, it sounds great!

When you are hiking you have degrees of that the path takes upwards( and coming back often danwards)
If you look at a flat line and then draw a line going up at an angle this is called your degree of incline. thats the angle you are walking up.
these angles on the waterfall hikes can go from a mere 15 degrees (gentle slope) to 45/50 degrees( Yikes).
The rainbow-falls hike has 15-50 degree inclines.
Abrams falls has some 40 and 50 degree incines coming back and downward slopes that are scarey!


This also adds to your elevations. a 30 degree incline you can gain upwards ofd of 50 feet or more from the level starting plane.