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Kyle:
What kind of warm-up did you have before they started taking lactate samples? I do not see how we could call AeT 160 since your lactate never stabilized and lower heart rates. It rapidly rose from the get-go. Normally one will call the AeT the point either where LA goes above 2mMol/L or where its initial rise of 1mMol/L occurs.
I strongly suggest you do the HR Drift test as described here: https://evokeendurance.com/our-latest-thinking-on-aerobic-assessment-for-the-mountain-athlete/
Do that test hiking on a treadmill set at 15% and use 135 as the starting HR.
From the chart you have sent 160HR indicates a LA of 3mMol/l. That is well above any definition of AeT. Based on this test I would call AeT 135ish because that is where LA started climbing.
The above comments on this test are null and void if you didn’t have at least a 10min gradual warm-up.
Scott