Some math:

Using only the MT (assuming no shortcuts):

11.2 miles (one way) x 6 (3 RTs) = 67.2 miles divided by 24 hours = 2.8 mph (average).

Using only the MR (assuming no shortcuts):

4.5 miles (one way) x 6 (3 RTs) = 27 miles divided by 24 hours = 1.125 mph (average)

CaT

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)