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  • Posts: 1,200 Member
    litoria wrote: »
    I'm a mad keen hiker, currently training for the Everest Base Camp trek in 4 weeks time! Am doing 2 hours a day, 6 days a week with a total of 1200m ascent/descent each time, carrying a 20kg pack for conditioning. It's really hard but I figure it will have me in good shape for the actual trip

    Amazing!!!
  • Posts: 11,502 Member
    I enjoy hiking and backpacking, as well as trail running. For day trips, I do more trail running these days and hiking/backpacking for overnight trips (partly due to pack weight). What I really need to do now for backpacking is figure out how to get lighter. Part of it actually finding lighter gear, but part of it is the mental side of not carrying all my fears with me. Last place I backpacked was in June at Glacier National Park - Many Glacier area.

    I live in Iowa, so day trips (trail running mostly) are not as much elevation climb. However, there are some areas that are quite hilly here and in NE - rolling hills make it easy to get 1K-2K ft. of cumulative elevation gain in 5-10 miles in some places.
  • Posts: 11,502 Member
    Oh, and BTW, there is a hiker / backpacker group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/547-hikers-and-backpackers

    It is pretty quiet, but might not be if there were more members.
  • Posts: 13 Member
    orangegato wrote: »
    I live in New Jersey. I have recently fallen in love w/ hiking. I love how it clears my mind of all thoughts except where am I going to step next and where am I going. Last hike was Apshawa Preserve. This was only maybe my 3rd hike ever and I got lost on the trails. Is there an app or tracker that has a map and can relocate you if lost?

    I use AllTrails and I love it. Has saved me from giving lost a timer to. Just make sure that you open up the trail map while you still have service, the GPS Works once you loose service but I'm never able to load the maps unless I do it beforehand
  • Posts: 758 Member
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    Hubby and I hike almost every weekend. We are Boy Scout leaders and have been doing practice hikes for a 14er in just a few weeks. Last week we logged about 12 miles in two separate hikes. Typically we do about 5-7 miles each weekend. Living in Colorado is awesome.

    I would love to get out every weekend. How do you squeeze it in? I have trouble finding whole days to get out of town.
  • Posts: 3,452 Member
    7elizamae wrote: »
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    I would love to get out every weekend. How do you squeeze it in? I have trouble finding whole days to get out of town.

    We usually go early in the morning on one weekend day. We live within 30 minutes or less of many great hikes. If we are on the trail by 6-7 in the morning and we are finished up amd on our way home by 10am.
  • Posts: 773 Member
    midwesterner85 wrote: »
    Oh, and BTW, there is a hiker / backpacker group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/547-hikers-and-backpackers

    It is pretty quiet, but might not be if there were more members.

    We should get this group going again!!
  • Posts: 3,452 Member
    WickAndArtoo wrote: »
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    We should get this group going again!!

    I just went and joined. We're planning some long weekend backpack trips next year, mostly in Rocky Mountain National Park or along the Continental Divide Trail in CO. :)
  • Posts: 1,513 Member
    Im lucky to live on the edge of the Peak District in the UK
    Last hike was win hill, views were lovely but i cant add them here due to using my mobile

    I have 5 hikes planned next week all are 6 - 8 milers but im known to misread maps and end up doing a few extra

    I do all my hikes with my son strapped to my back and water bottles hanging off the front
  • Posts: 10,740 Member
    Recently did some little hikes (7 miles total) in Branson, Missouri of all places. It was a beautiful day but man oh man, lots of spiders in the woods. My favorite hikes in the past year have been the petroglyph trail at Mesa Verde in CO, and in and out at Carlsbad Caverns.
  • Posts: 758 Member
    ninjarunningskills wrote: »
    I live in the Pacific NW and between trail running and hiking I spend a lot of time up in the mountains. These are the hikes I've done in the past couple weeks: Church Mountain, Diablo Lake, and Yellow Aster Butte.
    You can see some of the smoke from the wildfires in Canada in the Diablo Lake pic.
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    We are lucky to live in the PNW! I need to get to Diablo Lake one of these days.
  • Posts: 29 Member
    https://caltopo.com/m/1LS7

    I am in Santa Fe also. Above is my latest, below are a bunch more...

    over50outdoors.org/
  • Posts: 2,238 Member
    I usually get a hike in each weekend, typically somewhere in the bluffs around the Baraboo, WI area. I like some of the less-traveled bits of the Ice Age trail, where I only encounter a few, if any, people.

    Did Kilimanjaro in February, which was amazing, although I didn't really like the training for it - I got too caught up in the stats of each hike and I kept feeling like I "had" to hike, rather than hiking just for the pleasure of hiking. Funny enough, now that I'm not training anymore, I still hike nearly as much, but now I can hike for its own sake.

    I wish I could go on a trip next year to do the Inca Trail with some of my coworkers, but I have a business trip at the same time - and I can't get out of that or move it, that trip is the culmination of a project that is years in the making.
  • Posts: 2,981 Member
    edited August 2017
    I don't get to hike much, even though I do live in the Appalachian Mountains, and I've only recently gotten down enough weight to have better stamina for it. Last weekend I went to Harper's Ferry, WV, and walking the part of the Appalachian trail that goes through the town, starting down at the river and climbing the stone steps to the top of the hill and following the trail until it came to route 340. I"m not sure how much that is - approximately a mile? And then I meandered back along the river through the park. Considering how out of shape I am, I was really proud of myself for making it up all those steps and doing all that walking! I got almost 14,000 steps in that day, and that's a big improvement over my typical < 5,000 steps a day. I had a lot of fun doing it, too! I found that it was so much easier for me to hike for a couple of hours than walk a city park walking trail, so its something I hope I can do more of in the future!


    My biggest problem with hiking, though, is I don't have anyone to hike with, and I'm not so sure of the prudence of hiking out alone - especially as cell phone coverage is pretty spotty in the area I live.
  • Posts: 1,513 Member
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    My usuall hiking look on the monsel trail
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    edited August 2017
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    Monsel head
  • Posts: 758 Member
    I am loving seeing where y'all are hiking! I'd really like to commit to a hike every weekend, but we'll see. I live about 45 - 60 min away from some average (and really busy) hikes, and 2-3 hours from really exceptional (think National Park) hikes. So, I'm always dissatisfied with the average ones.

    Who goes every weekend? How long have you been able to keep that up?
  • Posts: 758 Member
    bmeadows380 wrote: »


    My biggest problem with hiking, though, is I don't have anyone to hike with, and I'm not so sure of the prudence of hiking out alone - especially as cell phone coverage is pretty spotty in the area I live.

    I hike alone often. I choose hikes that I know are well-populated. I don't go to trailheads out in the boonies by myself, as much as I'd like the solitude.
  • Posts: 29 Member
    Some recent hikes:
    over50outdoors.org/chicoma-mountain-and-polvadera-peak-exploratory/

    over50outdoors.org/aspen-vista-to-deception/

    over50outdoors.org/big-tesuque-loop/

    https://backcountrypost.com/threads/bears-ears-jamming-government-to-gulch.6759/
  • Posts: 6,572 Member
    Apshawa Preserve in NJ this morning.

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  • Posts: 121 Member
    I'm trying to get more into it. My son doesn't seem to interested though, and childcare is an issue.
  • Posts: 758 Member
    yourfitnessenemy wrote: »
    I'm trying to get more into it. My son doesn't seem to interested though, and childcare is an issue.

    My boys love it now, but when they were little, I'd give them my phone on hikes so they could take pictures. That was a complete game-changer! They took a LOT of pictures and spent the hike looking for great shots.
  • Posts: 99 Member
    Indian Head Mountain, Catskills NY. 1515' elevation gain from parking lot. 3,573 peak elevation. About 9 miles. Did this a couple of weeks ago with my husband for our anniversary. It's a tough hike that we wouldn't be able to do with our two young kids.
  • Posts: 2 Member
    We get about 3 good hikes a summer. The last one was at Heather Lake, Washington State. 4 miles or so roundtrip. Gorgeous lake to hang around at.
    I'd love to go more, however with three kids it's hard to get them all on the same page.
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