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fastpack

verb

Etymology

Blend of fast + backpack.

  1. inherited from *pakkô✻ — “bundle, pack”
  2. inherited from *pakkō✻
  3. derived from pak
  4. inherited from *pæcca✻
  5. inherited from pak
  6. formed as backpack — “back + pack”
  7. compounded as fastpack — “fast + backpack”

Definitions

  1. To run while carrying a backpack on a multi-day trail.

    • In 1987, with fellow runner Will Uher, John fastpacked the 211-mile John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada in 8 1/2 days, carrying a 30-pound pack.

  2. To to backpacking with the goal of maximising the distance traveled every day.

    • It was slowing her down in adventure races, and it was complicating her plans to fastpack a bunch of trails in New Zealand.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA