{"id":354,"date":"2012-07-04T23:21:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T23:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idioteque.co.uk\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2012-07-04T23:21:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T23:21:16","slug":"naismiths-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Naismith\u2019s Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naismith\u2019s Rule is a rule of thumb that helps in the planning of a walking or hiking expedition by calculating how long it will take to walk the route, including ascents. The rule was devised by William W. Naismith, a Scottish mountaineer, in 1892. The basic rule is as follows: Allow 1 hour for every 3 miles (5 km) forward, plus \u00bd hour for every 1000 feet (300 metres) of ascent.<\/p>\n<p>A revised rule is 4Km \/hour and then adding 1 minute for each 10m of height gained or 20m of descent.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, Naismith\u2019s Rule, allows an easy calculation of the time taken for a hill walk, for a reasonably fit and steady walker: 15 minutes for every kilometre of horizontal distance, plus 10 minutes for every 100 metres of ascent. The time should be calculated for the slowest person in a walking group. Corrections for descents:<\/p>\n<p>Going gently downhill \u2013 10mins \/ 300m of descent<\/p>\n<p>Very steeply downhill + 10mins \/ 300m of descent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naismith\u2019s Rule is a rule of thumb that helps in the planning of a walking or hiking expedition by calculating how long it will take to walk the route, including ascents. The rule was devised by William W. Naismith, a Scottish mountaineer, in 1892. The basic rule is as follows: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}