Category: hiking

A hike of 5 to 10- hour a day can make anyone know that hiking is full of adventure. Be it either a trek for a few weeks or an excursion for a single day you will come to know that you may expect only unexpected things while on a hike. So many different experiences may await you that you may not know what to happen on a particular day. Here comes the significance of hiking equipment, which would be as important as the air you breathe, and this is so as to equip you well to face the many varied situations during the trail.
Here follows a series of must-have hiking equipment for you to take during your next hike:

Backpack and Rain Cover

You may certainly not forget to get a backpack. There would not be anyone courageous enough to go without a backpack for a hike. This pack may certainly contain everything: all that make you befitting the wilderness of the place you go. Even though we never forget about getting a backpack, we usually don’t think about taking a rain cover along with the various hiking equipment we plan to take along with us.

We may think: “Why to get out if at all it is raining?” You may later realize that rainy days make you get adapted to rains and are inevitable while you go for longer hikes. So, you may better get equipped with a rain coat for your day hiking as well.

Food

Is it required to pack food during the journey? You will go out not for more than an hour or two. What is the purpose of it?

It is always well and good to pack some food with you when you plan to go for day hiking. Although your hiking is supposed to end in 2 hours, any side trail you may interested to go would make you end up wandering in the wild forests for more than 5 hours or so. It is possible you may get hungry and not any food available near by. So definitely it is better to add some packed food into your list of hiking equipment.

Boots

One of the important points to note down while selecting this particular equipment is that, every pound of boot is probably equivalent to 5 pounds of weight at your back. This is how the body works; you may feel it funny. The weight on one side should complement that on the other; otherwise it complains. Your boots should suit the nature of the trail you are supposed to travel. While a pair of sneakers is enough for some trails, some others really need with heavy hiking boots designed specially for it to travel. The choice is yours.

Gaiters

If at all you would like to get accustomed to rains, these are essential. These are same as rain cover. The purpose of gaiters is to avoid water from running along your legs and entering into your boot tops.

You may be well aware of the time you might have wasted on waterproofing your boots taking much effort to seal the big opening of your boots through which your legs fit into.

Socks

It would be better if you be packed with two pairs of socks. A sock having an outer wool and an inner polypropylene combination is most recommended and advisable in order to keep your feet warm and to keep away moisture and every hiker has to be necessarily equipped with this item along with his list of equipment.

One of the best method by which you can get into hiking vacation is to join a social club, where there will be several activities, by which you can get lot of benefits from the experience of other people who have gone for it.

Your friends and other members will help you in learning lot of things .They can give information about the areas that you can locally find and deliver you with several noteworthy points. Even you will get friends of similar mental wavelength who are adventurous to join you for your hiking vacation.

Though you can see different types of people with distinct characteristics, some will be quite aggressive while others will be lazy and afraid of it, but still you will get some of them who will have similar interests as you. Choose a club which has more young members, so as to match your frequency.

All around the America you can see about a few clubs who will arrange hiking vacation

Fairbanks Area Hiking Club
This is an associate which is situated in the interior region of Alaska and the residents found over here use to enjoy the crevices of beautiful Alaska. They research through these areas by wearing snowshoe, ski, bare foot or wearing boots .These journey will take you from Denali National park throughout to the Arctic National Wildlife refuge (ANWG) as well as through the White Mountains which is found along the rivers of the Tanoan and Chena and many similar places which are supposed to be dream like.

Alabama Hiking Trail Society
This is the prominent hiking club in the state of Alabama practiced to promote, save, develop, maintain and support a comprehensive track system covering the entire state. If you love hiking and if you are near and around Alabama, you can go from Huntsville to Mobile with the group of Alabama Hiking Trail society.

One of the benefits of becoming in this group is that these clubs have all the activities and you can take part and its brought under the Group liability Insurance policy.

Off the Beaten Trail
This have both social and hiking club. You can participate in which ever you want .It was first created by the Lorie and Ward who together began running this club in summer 2002 .Now the club has become so popular that over 300 members have joined this club. This hiking group mainly involves people who are single and those who inhabit the metropolitan area of AZ and phoenix. You can even choose the events that you want to take part and can avoid those that you don’t wish.

Desert Trails Hiking Club
The Desert Trail hiking club is well known and they conduct different types of hiking and you can choose whichever you want. There is one hiking which is easy, one which is moderate and one which is highly stressful and strenuous hikes. You can enroll yourself to go for the Coachella valley hike and also beyond the valley and enjoy the comradeship and friendliness.

Trailblazers Hiking Club
The outdoor activities of the social come hiking club Trailblazers in the Mountain regions of eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas of the west side in Ouachita and Ozarks. The hiking club offers lot of variety of hiking like short, long, difficult and relaxed one and it will be held in different schedules. These hikes are scheduled nearly every weekend from autumn to spring .You can go through the events section in the website online in order to choose the event that you would like to select and match your likes.