Jeff Garmire of Vancouver hiked America’s three iconic long-distance routes — the Appalachian, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails — this year. He’s now a member of the elite cadre who have walked the three paths in a calendar year.

Garmire, 26, gets asked many questions, and this is one of the frequent ones: How many pairs of shoes did he go through?

“Thirteen,’’ he answers. “Four on the Appalachian Trail, four on the Pacific Crest and five on the Continental Divide.’’

Here are a few other numbers:

• He weighed 185 pounds in early February in Georgia and 160 pounds by the time he finished in New Mexico in mid-October.

• He tried to eat 6,000 calories a day.