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Was Last year. I esp. love to hike because what you see is so beautiful! Like hiking through forests and maybe occasionally spotting animals, or at the very end when you can see the whole veiw of the creek or river, forest, city, etc.

This would be a wonderful way to get exercise, fresh air and get into nature :)

...California Woods. It tends to be difficult to do a lot of high-impact activities when I always have strollers/baby packs with me, but this is a somewhat unknown treasure that I need to visit this year.

I joined our local nature center and it turns out they have miles of trails for hiking. Woo!

Even if its more of a walk then a hike (I live in a non-mountiany area !!) – I love hiking and I want to make sure I do a lot of it – not only this summer, but throughout my entire life !

Mini-hike around the pond today. It was a beautiful day, sunny and spring-like. We saw Eranthis hyemalis and Fulica atra and had a great time. Came home after almost 3 hours with veeery muddy shoes and paws!

:-)

this is great fun, specially spur of the moment ones. i did 6 miles spur of the moment today, 5 of which were in soaking wet smelly shoes (had to cross a swamp)

I’m not the typical outdoorsy person. But I do have a dog, I’m kind of depressed and I spend way too much time in front of computer screens. So lately I have had this idea that hiking more regularly would be a good thing for me. My dream would be to hike Kungsleden in Northern Sweden someday. It´s supposed to be beautiful. I’ll start on a much smaller scale though. Probably with 4-hour hikes close to home.

I feel that I can safely take this goal off because I’ve accomplished it many times over, and incorporated it into my regular life. It it 100% worth doing and doing again.

There’s no such thing as a cure-all, but exercise is about as close as it gets. It’s good for my physical, emotional and mental wellbeing. I does a great job at squashing depression or a bad mood. And hiking is a great way to do it.

I tried meetup.com and found a very promising group of local hiking enthusiasts, but apparently the moderator had to leave the group a while ago and the group expired shortly after I joined. I don’t know much about how the meetup.com thing works or I might try starting a group myself, but being a novice hiker, I think people would want someone with more experience to lead the thing. At least I got myself on a waiting list of people interested in one.