{"id":54,"date":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetrailmaster.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2022-10-26T11:28:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:28:43","slug":"hiking-with-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetrailmaster.com\/tips\/hiking-with-companions\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking with Companions: Choose Wisely"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hikers have a broad range of abilities, interests and enthusiasms. The company they choose to keep on the trail reflects that diversity. Hiking with companions has so much to offer.<\/p>\r\n
If you’re accountable to someone other than yourself, you’re more apt to walk the walk. When you’re facing an early-morning start, weather that’s hot and humid or cold and rainy, general malaise or low spirits, having someone you can depend on-or who depends on you-makes a difference.<\/p>\r\n
Making an appointment with someone to take a hike, keeps you accountable for actually doing the hike. All too often in our busy lives we give up what’s not critical to our work or family responsibilities, and cancel something like hiking with companions because it has no immediate benefit or practical purpose that we can see. (I understand this attitude-and have struggled with it myself. However I hope 25 years of my speaking out refutes the notion that there’s more to hiking than putting one foot in front of another.)<\/p>\r\n