Walking/Hiking with 16 lb baby in backpack?

Junisahn

My property borders a state park. I do all my walking in the park and never know whether to classify it as hiking or walking. The trails are nice, but it's all dirt and hills (not mountains!). It's bordering the Appalachian Mountains, but not in the mountains - that kind of hiking, though.

Anyway, today, I had my 16 lb baby in the pack on my back and I walked for 37 minutes on the trails. If I classify this as "Walking, carrying 15 lb infant" it counts as 112 calories. If I classify this as "Hiking, climbing hills (10-20 lb load)," I earned 234 calories.

This is a really big difference. I took my pulse a few times on the walk, and it was in the 130-140 range.

What would you classify it as?

LilMissAngi

hiking. :-)

gnme4243

Hiking :flowerforyou:

squoozyq

It would classify as DARN HARD WORK!

naturebaby

hiking

RedneckWmn

I would agree hiking! I'm sure you are getting quite a workout!

Always_lil_j

I would def say hiking. Congrats!!!

Junisahn

Thanks! I like to think I worked hard, but I don't want to count calories that I didn't earn... I put it as hiking, knowing that I do lots of other stuff that I don't count in my day's energy expenditure, so somewhere, it must be evening out!