How Far Was That Hike?
Can’t find anything specific to hiking through jungle terrain but here is what I stumbled across.
An average hiker will go 2mph on flat terrain. Going up hills will slow you down to about 1mph while going down-hill will result in the same speed as going on a flat trail.
About a days journey is what Sayid estimated the trip to be. Most of the hike is relatively level and while the jungle could make things a little more difficult to cross our Lostie’s don’t seem to have any problems walking through it.
All this being said, I would guess conservatively they were walking around 10 miles just reach the balloon. What we don’t know is how close the balloon was to the other side of the island.
This leads me to believe that the island is at least 10 miles wide in a certain direction.
