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Estimating daylight time

When it’s late afternoon and you’re wondering if you should make camp or not, use this trick for estimating the time until sundown. Extend your arm and place a fist beneath the sun, followed by your other fist. Continue counting fists until you reach the horizon. Each fist represents about one hour.

From “Backpacker” magazine, Sept 2003