Guide to hiking (1 Viewer)

[Henry Thai]

Hey guys, anyone here interested in hiking?

I should have made this post sooner when everyone still had a long holiday left, but I was never bothered until now haha. However, HSC'13 students still have time!

If you've never been hiking before, or are a novice at it - I wrote a short guide on hiking at http://awakenthegift.com/bushland-hiking.

You really have two choices in hiking: Pick hiking trails (e.g. in National parks) and walk through them, or go free-hiking wherever you feel like – through thick bushes, up the edge of a mountain, or even through deserts. Google maps is your friend for free-hiking, Google search is your friend for trail-hiking. A great website to search for trails is everytrail, just punch in the location and you’re good to go!

Hopefully, this will be useful to someone here!

 

[iJimmy]

cool

 

[williamdaft]

i really like coastal walks, so calm

 

[AlextheButcher]

Quality information man! This is good stuff.

 

[Kittikhun]

Just to add to this. For those who are carrying more than 10kg on their shoulders, make sure you do the straps up tight on your bag, so that your bag is level right with your back. If you let the straps down too much, your bag will sag down and you'll add gravity to the weight of your bag and get a lower back injury. Also, walk with a relatively straight back and a slight bend forward.

Good books to have a quick read over as well are:

SAS Survival Guide (http://www.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Guide-Collins-Gem/dp/0061992860)

Survival Handbook: Endurance Essentials for the Great Outdoors (http://www.amazon.com/Survival-Hand...keywords=royal+marine+commandos+survival+book)

The latter lacks images of dangerous plants and animals to eat, but it has good stuff on outdoors survival and is well illustrated in other sections.