Hiking Calorie Calculator

This works out the calories a hike costs from the figures a route actually gives you: distance, total elevation gain, total elevation loss, your body weight, the weight of the pack and the ground underfoot. The climb and the descent are treated as two separate legs at the same steepness, each with its own walking pace, because a loop with 500 metres up and 500 metres down averages out to flat on paper and is nothing like a flat walk. The energy cost comes from the Pandolf equation with the Santee correction applied to the descent, and the pace split from Tobler's hiking function. Leave the moving time blank and it is estimated from the slope instead. It predicts a group average, so treat the number as a planning figure rather than a measurement of you.