Planner inputs: Capacity and pacing

These inputs are some of the highest-leverage planning decisions in the planner.

Effort intent

This field asks:

How aggressively do I plan to move on this route?

Use:

• Sub-Recreational when you want more margin
• Recreational for most backpacking plans
• Performance when you intentionally want stronger pacing
• FKT only for genuinely aggressive efforts

Hiking-time limit

This field asks:

How many actual hiking hours can I repeat per day on this trip?

Choose a repeatable limit, not a single best day.

This is one of the first fields to revisit when the route or itinerary cost looks wrong.

Sleep

Use expected trip sleep, not best-case sleep.

If the trip will involve poor sleep, reduced recovery, or repeated short nights, enter that directly.

Altitude model

Turn the altitude model on when altitude is a real planning factor.

Leave it off when altitude is not meaningfully part of the route.

Acclimatization

Turn acclimatization on only when you will already be adapted to that altitude regime.

Do not turn it on unless you will already be adapted to that altitude regime.

Review sequence

If route or day outputs look wrong, revisit these in this order:

1. effort intent
2. hiking-time limit
3. sleep
4. altitude settings

Then check route segmentation before touching advanced physiology anchors.