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Excellent work!!!!!!!! There is nothing I like more than the cold hard numbers!!!Okay. There's a general rule to figuring out how long it will take to hike a certain distance:
Naismith's rule - Wikipedia
Basically, if walking at normal pace, on fairly even terrain, it should take 20-30 minutes to walk a mile. A mile is 5280 feet. To figure out the time for any distance, I use this formula: if x = the number of feet walked, the formula for 20 minutes/mile would be: x(20)/5280. For 30 minutes/mile would be x(30)/5280. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong. A math wiz I am not.
It's right about 2000 ft. from where the girls were dropped off to the SC photo spot on the bridge. 2000(20)/5280=~7.6 min. Going slower - 2000(30)/5280=~11.4 min. This does NOT reflect time the girls may have spent taking pictures, dawdling, whatever. And that's important to remember. It's speculation for us. LE probably has this information.
In any case, even if they got on the trail at 1:45pm (and it could have been earlier), it took them over 20 minutes to get to that spot on the bridge, according to the infamous 2:07 SC time. That's double the time it would take on the long end of the range of a normal hike.
Part of me thinks they could have messed around and wasted that much time. Part of me thinks not. Part of me wonders if they hiked the trail below the bridge or to Freedom Bridge first. And part of me wonders if something slowed them down before getting to the high bridge, like an early encounter with BG or something. Who knows.
I'll let you do some math figuring out the other distances.![]()
OK. I think they would have been on the slower spectrum, 11.4 minutes. I don't think they went there to be power walkers/hikers. Plus I remember being that age and going from point A to point B was never a straight line or the least path of resistance. There would be plenty of goofing off on the way! And right, maybe they didn't go straight to the bridge but rather walked around the trails a little more first.
Hmmm..maybe they did encounter BG which caused them to make a detour. Instead of a straight line to the bridge, a longer route...
How do your figures work for instance: 1) From where BG is seen on the bridge in Libby's video to the crime scene area? 2) Crime scene area to trailhead. 3) Crime scene area to CPS building.
Of course I'm not asking you to do all of that work, I'm more speaking to myself here. But I will use your formula's to try to figure it out.
Great work on that!