Hiking
is an outdoor activity which consists of walking in natural environment. People
often hike on hiking trails and some adventure lovers also like off-trail
hiking. Although hiking is walking, it is not just a walking. Hiking has
numerous benefits; it is a super way to lose weight. It also prevents heart
disease, decrease cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and reduces stress and
depression. Regular hiking helps staying active and stronger longer.
You will have better air and can explore natural settings that can
only be reached on foot, leaving the hectic urban life and pollution behind for
a while. Hiking is an aerobic exercise that improves overall physical fitness,
using leg muscles, core body muscles, and lungs, and put much less stress on
your body than running or doing aerobics. Many hikers also build their self
confidence as one hike is completed, he understand that he is capable of even
larger feats. By mastering hiking skills, you expand your horizons to
mountaineering or other outdoor wilderness activities.
You can hike any time of the year, it is a great activity that can
be done in all seasons. Hiking tour can have many different looks depending on
season or its nature:
Day-hiking - can be completed within a single day and does not require
camping out overnight. Such hiking is possible nearby areas from your residing
city. You can choose day hiking if you are restricted with your busy schedule.
You can go hill-side area to any direction from your home for you day hike.
Swim-hiking – is a recreational activity which combines hiking and
outdoor swimming. The hiking trail should pass river or lake so that when hiking
and you arrive to lake or river you change into swimming costume and put your
clothes in a waterproof rucksack and you swim across. On the other side change
back into your hiking gear and continue hiking. Such hiking could be a
day-hiking or combined with other form of hiking.
Backpacking – is a multiday hiking, also known as trekking, which is arduous
hike especially happen in mountainous region. Backpacking combines the
activities of hiking and camping for an overnight stay in backcountry
wilderness. It is an outdoor activity where participant pack all of their gear
into a backpack. In Nepal there are abundant places suitable for backpacking as
per hikers’ desire and requirement.
Dog-hiking – is a form of hiking in which hikers can bring their dogs
along with them. It is better to make dog-hiking for a single day.
Off-trail-hiking – is a free-hiking emphasizing a hike experience free of constraints,
as opposed to seeking a shortcut to specific destination such as scenic viewpoints.
Off-trail hiking may be more tedious,
adventurous and a bit risky.
Hill-walking – are commonly used to describe the recreational outdoor
activity of walking on hills and mountains which might be referred to as hiking,
backpacking or mountaineering, elsewhere, covering terrain, which can include
mountains, high moorland, remote passes and coastal passes
Scrambling – is a method of ascending rocky faces and ridges. It is
after distinguished from hill-walking by defining a scramble as a route where
hands must be used in the ascent to hold body weight, rather than just to
balance.
Heli-hiking – is a recreational activity in which a helicopter is used
to access remote areas of the back country for hiking that would not normally
be accessible.
There are also other forms of hiking defined by many. Nepal is a
possible land to develop all these types of professional hiking. Because of the
rich in natural diversity, we can give verities of name, specialty and
adventures in the different form of hiking. Any corner of the country is possible
to develop as a hiking spot, for which all relevant policy makers should think
once!
Nepal is a best place for hiking adventures...
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