Saturday, August 24, 2013

Knowing The Importance Of Promoting The Hiker's Cause

By Adam Wright


Wherever country you are there are always a large group of people opting for a vacation on the ridge. It is the same as how other types of people wish to spend their luxury time by the coast. Hiking can become a natural pleasure for whoever sets his or her eyes upon it, and make natural hikers out of them.

What makes hiking special is that in the old times, nobody would make something special of it. It is just simple walking, yet going through on an elevated plane. However, it is very unique compared to simple walking because mountains and hills are considered sacred grounds.

Essentially, everyone will agree that hiking is an excellent workout. There is this principle in physics explaining how traversing the higher altitude should increase the gravity pull for our benefit. As far as biomechanics is concerned, the more the gravity pulls the more you exert overall physical strength and the more your muscles and stamina develop.

Speaking of breathing, the higher vantage point of earth is always blessed with what one can verily describe as "sweet air". One may feel tired from hiking but the finish line on top offers a certain amount of rejuvenation that makes recovery easier than working out on level plain around civilization. The air around high ground is denser and it suppresses the normal urge for thirst and somehow neutralizes the discomfort from internal body heating.

What even makes hiking less tiresome is when a hiker reaches the summit is that the view is just as uplifting as the cool natural air around it. An individual marveling the sights from the peak of a hill or mountain is a common scene found in drama or epic motion pictures that stimulate to viewers the sense of majestic visual pleasure. It is twice more satisfying when one is actually in that place.

Pleasure is not only found at the summit of hikers, although that part of the journey is the best part. On the way to the finish line of their own journey, hikers can enjoy themselves watching nature all around them. The most popular biome that rewards hikers with fulfilling spectacle is often the wooded ranges.

Hiking is not just the type of activity that only vacationing eco-tourists are privileged with. Even the elegant working class under the National Geographic Society fused fun and work while including hiking as the inseparable aspect to their passion. Of course, there is no eco-tourism without seasoned tour guides and naturalists indulging the delight of "tree-huggers".

If there is anything that constitutes the epitome of the importance of hiking, it is the chance for humanity to be connected to Mother Earth. Technology has a way of destroying God-given things which our ancestors only take for granted. Hiking can offer everyone a perspective of our world on top of our great experience.




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