Entries Tagged as 'Hiking Tips'

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Six reasons why women should do mountain outdoor activities

I don’t know if it’s the same in the rest of the world but here in Italy when walking on hiking trails is very hard to meet women, I guess that 80% of hikers are men.
If you are a woman here’s a checklist of six reasons why you should do mountain outdoor activities:

Walking uphill uses […]

Friday, November 17th, 2006

How to set up your tent

I’d like to give you some advice about how to set up your tent, these advice are useful both for hikes with the tent and for camping:

be sure that the ground is not too much sloped, otherwise you risk to spend the night with the sleeping bag slipping on the mat
before set up your tent […]

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Six reasons why use trekking or hiking poles

Do you use trekking or hiking poles? Some people use them and some people hate them. Here is a list of cases on which I suggest you to use poles:

people who have inferior limbs articulations problems, four legs are better then two
on snow, they helps to balance yourself
hikes with enough unevenness, to […]

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Eight orienteering methods

Probably, in your life, you’ve done and you’ll do only simply walks to relax your mind.
However, I’ll suggest you eight ways to orienteering in your hikes:

Sun: it rise on East and go down on West, at noon it is on South. This is a simple way but is perfect only in the spring equinox ant […]