fastpack en · VERB
Etymology
Blend of fast + backpack.
Meanings
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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.
2011, John Vonhof, Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes, →ISBN, page 361:
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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.
2004 May, Katy Schafer, “The Challenge”, in Backpacker, volume 32, number 156, page 87:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fastpacked | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| fastpacked | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| fastpacks | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| fastpacking | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |