Anytime you hear the word extreme, realize that you are probably talking about professional hikers becoming bored of ordinary hikes and coming up with way to make them more extreme. Extreme when it comes to hiking also means more dangerous. Dangers in hiking can come at you in all directions. For example, someone may think [...]

Hiking during the winter can be quite refreshing. If you like the cooler or colder air, than it can be quite exhilarating. However they can turn dangerous really fast. For one thing the weather can turn on you quickly. In some regions winter storms or mountain snows can hit without warning. When this happens you [...]

If you have not noticed lately there seems to be a great increase in the number of hiking accidents. The fault does not at all seem to lie with the state parks or other areas that people hike in, rather they seem to lie with the hikers themselves. Also sometimes freak accidents occur with nobody [...]

So you’re an avid hiker and you have planned the ultimate hike, one that will take you places you have never been. You have been excited about this trip and cannot wait to make the journey. Are you prepared for such a huge hike though? Hiking can be very dangerous if you don’t know what [...]

For those in the world that love to hike, they know that you can experience sudden weather changes in some regions almost instantly without warning. This can be especially true in colder or mountainous regions. For some hikers they like to hike light. The more they carry the more it will slow them down. They [...]

Have you ever hiked somewhere that you have never even been? I mean, have you gone to another region and hiked in a place you knew nothing about? Certainly a move like this can be quite trying. On a hike, an experienced hiker will like to know where they are going so that they can [...]

Certainly all hikes may not need a ton of training. Maybe some endurance training will do, but other than that there may be little else that is needed. But on a larger scale hike, serious hikers usually train before completing the entire hike. They may have to learn how to climb cliffs or scale small [...]