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Knee Pain When Hiking – Probable Causes and Solutions

3rd January 2017 by Gilad Nachmani

Hiking without knee pain

Most hikers (and, well, most of the other regular humans we know) suffer from some sort of knee problems: either after 10 km of hiking, after 30 miles or just when going downhill with a heavy pack. I am no different – I used to always get knee pain when hiking and I couldn’t even […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: Backpacking, glutes, Hiking, IT band, lightweight footwear, training

Gear Review – Inov8 Race Ultra 290 Shoes

25th November 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Inov8 Race Ultra 290 while hiking in the Gorge

Back to the footwear conundrum I have been dealing with for the last… forever, I have tried my luck again with a pair of Inov8’s: the Race Ultra 290. I know I said I would be avoiding Inov8 shoes after my Cape Wrath Trail experience with the Trailroc 235 in 2015, but I had a […]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: Footwear, Gear review, Hiking, Inov8, Long Term Gear Review, Trail Running, Trail Shoes

British walker’s guide to hiking in USA

15th November 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Hiking in USA

I recently relocated from London, UK, to Portland (Oregon), USA, and had no doubt that my hiking life was not over, but actually started a new chapter. After hiking for so many years, hiking the the USA shouldn’t be that hard, right? Well, after 5.5 years in the UK, I am by now a fully […]

Filed Under: Ideas, Skills Tagged With: Angel's Rest, Backpacking, Devil's Rest, Hiking, Permits, Right of way, UK, USA, Wahkeena Falls

Do you like being outdoors or just the idea of it?

11th October 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

like-being-outdoors

If you are reading this, there is a good chance you have some connection to the outdoors – you may even call yourself an outdoors enthusiast – but are you really? Being outdoors is hard: you have the weather, the physical challenge, sleeping outside is usually a pain, you are always hungry and tired, your […]

Filed Under: Ideas Tagged With: Comfort, danger, Hiking

Wrapping Up 5.5 Years of Walking in Britain

18th June 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

5.5 Years of Walking in Britain

Just over 5.5 years ago, in November 2010, I moved to the UK in search of a more outdoors-oriented life than what I had previously in Israel. This has been mostly successful, and I have enjoyed walking in Britain, exploring an extremely interesting island that surprised me in many ways and made me the walker […]

Filed Under: Adventures, Ideas Tagged With: Backpacking, Cape Wrath Trail, Dartmoor, Hiking, Offa's Dyke, Pennine Way, Trekking, ultrapacking

Eating my hat and praise for the microadventure concept (with a caveat)

5th March 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Bivy is the best tool for a good microadventure

In February, I was under very clear instructions in terms of outdoors adventures: I need to be near home (within easy reach) and in a place where I would have constant cell phone reception. The reason for that is that my wife was nearly due to have our son. Those conditions meant I needed to […]

Filed Under: Adventures Tagged With: Alastair Humphreys, Backpacking, bivvy, bivy, Hiking, thru hiking, Walking

Leave No Trace – UK adjustment

7th November 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

Leave no trace in the backcountry, on or off the trail

If you go outdoors in the USA you seem to be truly alone as there are no signs that other people have ever been there; not always, but in most places that has been my experience. If you go hiking in the UK, on the other hand, it feels like all the people you have […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: Backpacking, Camping, Hiking, LNT

The me effect – all about solo backpacking

24th October 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

Solo backpacking at its best - in the backcountry

Everyone who is into backpacking (or hiking, hill walking, trekking, thru-hiking or what ever you want to call it) has been asked about going solo, and if you know of people who do solo backpacking, you must have wondered how they do it. Let me start by saying that I spend most of my time […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: Camping, Hiking, Long Distance walking, PLB, thru hiking

Dealing with solo weekend guilt

21st February 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

A solo guilt free climb up a ridge in New Zealand

There is a real problem in being torn between two worlds, between the family/home world and the outdoors. It is almost like having a demanding mistress but knowing the demand exists only in your head. I guess this guilt exists with any hobby or personal activity that takes us away from home; but there is […]

Filed Under: Ideas Tagged With: Backpacking, Camping, Family, Guilt, Hiking

What to take for a day hike – Winter hiking with a baby

18th February 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

Winter hiking with a baby in Epping Forest

Going hiking with a baby doesn’t have to be a disaster – the right gear can help a day out, make everyone more comfortable and enable enjoyment of the great outdoors. That is not to promise your baby will behave well, play nice and give you the chance to enjoy being out, but at least gear […]

Filed Under: Gear, Skills Tagged With: Deuter Kid Comfort 3, Epping Forest, ergobaby performance, gear for baby, gear for hiking, Hiking, hiking with a toddler

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