Hiking
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 12-day, 200km solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France in 1878."--Sholem Stein |
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Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside. "Hiking" is the preferred term in Canada and the United States; the term "walking" is used in these regions for shorter, particularly urban walks. In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, the word "walking" describes all forms of walking, whether it is a walk in the park or backpacking in the Alps. The word hiking is also often used in the UK, along with rambling (a slightly old-fashioned term), hillwalking, and fell walking (a term mostly used for hillwalking in northern England). The term bushwalking is endemic to Australia, having been adopted by the Sydney Bush Walkers club in 1927. In New Zealand a long, vigorous walk or hike is called tramping.
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Types
- Dog hiking – hiking with dogs that carry a pack
- Glacier hiking – hiking on a glacier with special equipment
- Llama hiking – an activity where llamas accompany people on walking expeditions
- Nordic Walking – fitness walking with poles
- Scrambling – non-technical rock climbing or mountaineering, or technical hiking
- Swimhiking – an activity which combines hiking and outdoor swimming
- Waterfalling – hiking with the purpose of finding and enjoying waterfalls
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- Cross-country skiing – a form of travel on skis that is equivalent to running or hiking in snow
- Geocaching – an outdoor treasure-hunting game
- Orienteering – a running sport that involves navigation with a map and compass
- Peak bagging – hiking to the summits of mountains
- Pilgrimage – a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance
- River trekking – a combination of trekking and climbing and sometimes swimming along a river
- Rogaining – a sport of long-distance cross-country navigation
- Snow shoeing – a way of hiking in deep snow
- Trail blazing – known as way-marking in Europe
- Trail running – running on trails
- Fell running – the sport of running over rough mountainous ground, often off-trail.