Hiking

Moving to BC in October and would love to meet some hiking partners! Here’s a photo from CO because photos. Hit me up if you’re planning a hike and want some company

I'll be off to the Azores in a few weeks. I've been looking online, but I can't find any English maps with scales that are usable for hiking (≤1:50k). The best I've been able to find are these:

• 1:60k/70k in English

https://www.mapsworldwide.com/maps-charts-atlases-c1811/azores-tour-trail-super-durable-map-p41582

• 1:50k in German

https://mapscompany.com/products/cartes-de-randonnee-acores-n-2260-kompass

I was hiking in a wilderness area...a very remote trail without a lot of action, and at one point I heard voices...I swore I heard human voices.

It was up in the mountains, too, so there wasn't much to make noise like that.

Obviously, I know it's my brain hearing trees groaning in the wind and quickly shortcutting to, "must be a human voice!" But it was just eerie.

Numerous hikers have been caught in a rockfall north of Lake Louise with multiple people injured or killed, according to the RCMP.

At around 1:30 p.m., Lake Louise RCMP were notified that "multiple hikers" were caught in a rockfall on a trail in the Bow Lake/Bow Glacier Falls area.

RCMP Cpl. Gina Slaney said the latest information available is that the incident involves "serious injuries and/or multiple fatalities," but she didn't have exact details as there is no cell service in the area and getting information from the scene is difficult.

AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.'

But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."

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I hike with my dog about 5 miles every day. I recently started to use poles, which have been great for clearing debris from the trail, and fighting off unwanted attention from unruly dogs on the trail.

I have a pair of lightweight aluminum twist to lock collapsible poles, but after 12 days of use the twist lock mechanism failed on one.

I am looking for something that is going to be more sturdy. I do not need ultra light weight, as the initial thought behind using them was for an upper body workout while hiking. AMA having a little more weight to them should I need to use them as a club would be welcome.

Mostly I care about them being sturdy, and having comfortable grips.

Platforms like Outdooractive, Komoot, Bergfex etc. charge for user content (and for viewing hiking trails in their map although they are free on OSM).

Is there any fediverse solution for Hiking, Biking etc.?

Only thing I found so far was https://docs.fittrackee.org/ but that's not exactly what I'm looking for and it is till under heavy development.

Is there a more free version of Alltrails? I find Alltrails to be too paywalled when I don't even think they deserve my money. What exactly do they even do? The community creates everything and it's not like they're contributing to the Maps community or anything.

Hey guys,

I need some advice. I'd like to hike for a month this summer. I'm just an average person.

Walking the Camino is easy, no risk, no planning, no experience needed. You just walk as much as you want each day.

In the alps I have to carefully plan each day because of my limited experience, hiking alone, weather, body limits and time restrictions.

Enjoying the alps is much more rewarding I guess but I don't think that I am physically able to hike one month in the alps. 1 or even 2 rest days per week and not too challenging routes.

Can someone recommend one over the other?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53136416

I've done the vast majority of my hiking in north-central PA, and even after moving away I keep going back because of the incredible trail network. It's always possible to put together an worthwhile loop of any distance you want, from 2-200 miles (attached screenshot of my day hikes in the area as evidence).

I'd like to break my pattern and explore more areas, particularly Virginia. Any specific forest/area in VA (or the rest of the Mid Atlantic) with a comparably dense and extensive trail network?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52781561

Big tracks on a hike through Michaux (size 12 shoe for scale). Been running into way more bear tracks than usual this winter, but no bear sightings yet.

Hey all, I just created a new community for hiking and other outdoor activity in the Mid Atlantic region of the US (MidAtlanticHiking@lemm.ee). Maybe a bit ambitious given the size of the hiking community here at present. Cross-posting for visibility.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52430135

In a quest for the steepest, toughest climb in the area, a friend convinced me to hike the Half Dome trail in Pine Creek gorge on a brutally cold December morning. I think we succeeded; Half Dome is a dead end climb of around 1300' in 0.5 miles.

We started from the end of Naval Run Rd, just south of the town of Slate Run. It was around 6°F when we started, enough to make my eyes water as soon as we got out of the car. The ~4" of snow was untracked almost all day. We headed south on the Pine Trail, which was decent if wet until Callahan Run. After this it because surprisingly sketchy, as it was often reduced to a narrow, sloping ribbon of icy trail, skirting a sheer rock wall to the right and a steep, long drop to the river on the left. I'd like to revisit this without snow, since it was a unique and beautiful section of trail. The climb up Half Dome started abruptly once we hit Pine Run, veering off sharply to the right as Pine Trail continued upstream. The climb is brutally steep and relentless. We're both reasonably fit, but climbing this 50% grade in 4" of untracked snow kick our asses. There were a few nice winter views along the way though, and a decent vista at the top. From here we took advantage of the winter and deer trails to bushwhack the ridge top over to Big Trail Rd and down Callahan Trail. Maybe we can blame the snow, but despite finding the sign and trailhead for Callahan Trail we essentially bushwhacked our way down the valley to the Black Forest Trail. We followed this back up to Hemlock Mountain for some nice vistas before dropping back down to Naval Run to end the day.

Anyone got any personal anecdotes or experience with hiking destinations in southern Chile (lake district or Patagonia)? Planning to be there in April for a few weeks, so I'll miss the penguins. But the weather should be decent in the mountains. Thinking Torres del Paine due to being outside of peak season, but open to suggestions and anecdotes :)

Me and my wife are planing to do a lot of hiking and camping in 2025. Starting off with just the trails around Austin, TX and expanding as we go.

Got the basics:

• Hiking Boots
• light day pack w/ bladder
• simple first aid kit
• downloaded maps

I used to go all the time when I lived near a trail head, but I would never go much further than 4 miles in before turning around. We won’t be that far from civilization most of the time, nothing too intense.

Thanks y’all!

Edit: thank for the advice y’all!!

Can’t believe I forgot hats, definitely picking up some. Will also pack my leatherman too.

And I agree hiking boots are probably a little overkill for most the trails we’ll be doing at first. But we want to get used to them and break them in for longer and rougher hikes we’re planning later this year.

Hello,

I'm looking for a pair of hiking boots to walk on snow without slipping or losing grip. I rarely go in the woods, I'm planning to buy these boots mostly for city/urban walking when there's snow out there. I live in Italy, so USA stuff is hard/impossible/expensive to get.

USAGE: For example, when it's snowing I'd like to bring my nephews/nieces to play outside, launch snowballs to each other, build snowman's etc We'd usually stay in an urban enviroment but sometimes we also go near a more off-road, very small little mini woods.

Another occasion I'd like to have them is to walk around with my partner while it's snowing to enjoy it.

Basically the time usage would be one afternoon length usually, afternoon till mid evening at max.

The last usage would to actually commute around during snow days/heavy rain days.

They'd be use at best 1-5 times a year

In case you may think "You don't need hiking/snow boots for this": While I understand that some may say that for these activities I don't even need hiking boots, but I'd feel more at ease to have then on my feet rather than not. I used to use full leather boots, blackstone ones, and they're hella good, but I slipped once and broke an arm last year, it was painful and I got pretty scared. I'm clumsy so it may as well have been my fault, but I'd just feel more safe with some more sturdy, grippier hiking boots in these situation after that experience.

I was about to purchase Lowa Renegade Evo GTX Mid, then I discovered about PU midsole and read the hydrolysis page on their website and got hella scared of making the wrong purchase...am I overreacting?

Could you guys help me pick a pair that fits my needs?

Right before reaching the highest peak, 13h hike. What a ride!

Planning a roadtrip early this fall. Will be in the Ozarks for around 3-4 days. Anyone have hikes or camping spot recommendations?

I'm looking for a wiki to use and contribute to that provides information similar to what AllTrails provides, and functions similarly to Wikipedia. I would like for the wiki's data to be free and open, and for it to operate under a reasonably permissive license.

Cross-posted to: https://sh.itjust.works/post/23459715

Bucamante Waterfall (Italy) - Loop trail - 5/7/24

A nice and relaxing hike during which I visited the Bucamante Waterfall (le cascate del Bucamante), in Pazzano di Sopra, Italy, then looped around Monfestino and came back to where I started

@hiking

https://www.wikiloc.com/hiking-trails/cascate-del-bucamante-e-castello-di-monfestino-da-pazzano-di-sopra-176307627

The main trail starts from this church [...]

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From 2018, Manzano mountains in New Mexico, USA.

Took me an hour to hike to this spot