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I just emailed a friend this question in complete seriousness:
How many miles do you think is vaguely plausible for people to think they can walk in a blizzard if they have supernatural resiliency and can also turn into snow leopards?
How many miles do you think is vaguely plausible for people to think they can walk in a blizzard if they have supernatural resiliency and can also turn into snow leopards?
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Musing on how I'd answer it if it were e. If they are estimating and are basically thinking human-but-utterly-(over)confident...Perhaps about the same amount that an ordinary athletic person can walk in a similar time frame NOT in a blizzard? There's no context on location or timing in what you described. I'm not very athletic, but I can and have done eight miles in an afternoon from one side of a city to another for the heck of it, just keeping moving without any particular speed, but in good weather.
Although even the supernaturally resilient might have trouble with getting LOST in white-out conditions. As a skier, even a clearly signed and groomed trail becomes hard to find with a bit of white stuff in the air... even with great eye sight and a good sense of direction and distance, all the markers get covered and confused!
On the other hand if they have experience, than whatever scientists say snow leopards do under those conditions!
Human limbs are gonna be USELESS for this. Stamina isn't much help when *traction* is the problem, feet aren't good as snowshowe-paws at snow, fingers aren't as good as claws for climbing ice...
Here. Have a bobcat in over its head in the snow...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFBJlllHbe4
Mwahahahahha. I love your brain.