TRAINING FOR HIKING TIPS

Injury prevention and risk minimisation should be the number one priority for any mountaineers training plan.

Why?

Well, you can't train when injured. And you certainly can't hit the mountain when you are carrying an injury either.

If there’s a bigger jump to take than day hikes to overnight hikes, it would have to be jumping from overnight hikes to multi-day pack carry hikes.
 
In my opinion, the mindset shift is without a doubt the biggest hurdle to overcome.
 
Day hiking involves, as the name suggests, hiking a trail for a day with a small day pack carrying only what you absolutely need.
 
Overnight hikes, for most, start off with driving to a campsite, finding a basecamp & pitching your tent, and then heading off somewhere for a day hike and returning to your campsite at days end.
 
You’re going to eat mostly different food to what you might eat during a day hike, but you do have the safety net of having your car nearby.
 
Furthermore, the biggest difference is that you’ll be sleeping in a tent.
 
But, multi-day hikes are a different kettle of fish.
 
With that in mind, this blog will go through how I believe you should plan for your first multi-day hike.

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