Banning Pets on Hiking Trails: Agree or Disagree? How do you feel about public lands banning pets on hiking trails? The banning of pets from hiking trails isn’t uncommon. It’s a big practice in National Parks, Nature Preserves, State Parks, and other...
Required Hiking Permits: Should we pay to use popular hiking trails? This article questions and debates the required hiking permits for using popular trails. In most cases, permits for hiking trails will cost money. Some may cost a few dollars, while others could cost...
Hiking Hydration: How much water should you take? Hiking hydration is extremely essential to your safety and health. I recently published an article about items not to take on a hiking trip. The main idea for the article was to make it humorous. I failed to make that...
16 Things Not to Pack for Hiking DISCLAIMER: due to some of the content from comments made on this blog post, I’ve decided to add this disclaimer. first of all, my reasoning for this article is mainly geared at hikers who are looking up cut weight. If you were with...
10 Shawnee National Forest Backpacking Loop Trails Are you struggling to find good Shawnee National Forest backpacking loop trails? There are more than 400 miles of trails in the Shawnee National Forest. It’s hard to determine what trails loop and which ones...
10 Strenuous Hikes in the Shawnee National Forest There are quite a few strenuous hikes in the Shawnee National Forest. Those last two words (“to enjoy”) might make some of you look at this article twice. Who in their right mind wants to go on a strenuous hike? Many...
