Hiking! What is it? It’s not a sport. If I travel too fast, I’m running. If I’m hiking through an urban area, then I am walking. The Random House Dictionary of the English Language defines Hiking as: “walking or marching a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, for military training, or the like.” Wikipedia gives us more of a modern definition describing it as “an outdoor activity which consists of walking in natural environments, often in mountainous or other scenic terrain.” So, in practice, the definition is pretty vast. Perhaps it’s a short hike in a wooded area when you walk your dog or maybe it’s the through-hike, which entails crossing an entire continent on foot. Furthermore, when taking the Wikipedia definition verbatim, the line between hiking and mountaineering is not a line at all, but a big gray area. The iportant point is when talking about physical conditioning for hiking, you should have specific goals in mind. Whether they are big or small, here are a few cardinal rules and ideas that may help.
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