Do you have a boundless love for getting out there in your , but a busy life brimming with deadlines and school pick-ups? If you don’t have endless time at your disposal to spend on the trail, you might be looking for ways to get the most out of your hikes. Over the years, I’ve run the gamut from freelancer with practically unlimited time to hike to full-time desk jobs where I'm hard-pressed to get enough time on the trail to keep me sane. I've come up with a few creative ways to maximize my time on the trail when that time isn't as long as I'd like.
There are obviously practical things you can do, like picking trails close to home to cut down on travel time, and in the summer months you can hike much earlier in the morning and later in the evening. But if you've only got an hour or two, try these four hacks to get the most out of your time on the hiking trail. If you’ve ever gone hiking with a friend who’s bigger than you and then compared your calorie expenditures on your afterward, you’ll have noticed that they burned more calories than you did doing the exact same activity.
Annoying, but as it turns out, all you need to do to reap more reward from your own hike is to weigh more yourself. is a term for hiking with a weighted backpack. It’s a common military training tool, but at first, I was a little skeptical.
There is that shows that the way it’s implemented in the military can be injurious, and I primarily hike to enjoy the outdoors and get away from the g.
