The other day when I mentioned that there were more than a few times when it would take more than an hour just to drive to a spot on the other side of an 8 ft. high game fence with no unlocked gates, I also had at the back of my mind one extreme case where the route between the two sides of the fence was about sixty miles, broken down as follows:
8 miles on 10 mph average jeep trails
19 miles on 25 mph dirt roads
28 miles on 65 mph paved highways
5 miles on 30 mph bladed caliche road
So, as a fun math problem, how much time would it have taken to drive from one side to the other side of the fence if there are five gates to be opened and closed along the way? Did you say more than two hours? Yes, and that's only if you didn't have a flat tire on one of those off-road miles.