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Originally Posted by Varyon
If you've got everyone carrying Light Encumbrance (2 FP per hour), you can start the day by hiking for 2 hours (lose 4 FP), spend 30 minutes resting and eating to recover all of that (you regain an extra FP by eating while resting), then hike for 4 hours (lose 8 FP, Move likely drops to 1/3), take a 20 minute break with another meal to recover 3 FP, and finally hike another hour and 10 minutes before making camp, assuming you're only willing to spend 8 hours a day on hiking. Go-rest-go-rest-go would mean 30 minutes hiking, 10 resting, 30 walking, 10 resting, and so forth, with the occasional 60 minute walk followed by a 10 minute rest while eating. The first scheme, out of 8 hours, has you hiking for 7 hours and 10 minutes, while the latter scheme only has you hiking for about 6 hours and 20 minutes.
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...Or, if you know when you're going to stop your hike, you could trivially arrange for the final leg to be the efficient length rather than mindlessly following a strict cyclic schedule. Regardless of whether you're using long or short rests.
(Provided, of course, that you want the efficiency more than you want to have FP in hand to handle problems near the end of the day.)