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Why use walking poles

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  The most obvious use for walking poles is to help your balance and keep you steady when walking on uneven terrain. This is particularly useful when crossing streams or hiking on stony paths where there’s a chance you could slip or lose your footing. You can dig them into the ground and they’ll provide you with some leverage  – they won’t take your full weight, however, so don’t rely on them completely. Simply holding poles in your hands and swinging your arms also improves your momentum. Without poles, it can be all too easy to just put your arms by your side or your hands in your pockets, but by swinging the poles, this will help propel you forwards, taking some of the strain away from your legs. A nd it’s this strain on your lower body that is one of the most important reasons to use trekking poles. When you walk, you put pressure on your knees, and in particular the cartilage between the joints. If you’re doing a lot of ascent and descent walking, or if you c...

Which Tent Should I Buy

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If you're thinking of getting the family together for your next camping trip, read our list of the  Best Family Campsites in Scotland . Ideal for sheltered campsites, family tents are usually bought when having lots of space is the key criteria for a new purchase. These tents may have 2 or more separate sleeping compartments with built in internal groundsheets for home-from-home comfort. If in this situation and you're essentially camping out of the car , it means weight and pack size is not the main consideration when choosing the tent .    Trekking tents for wild camping allow you to venture away from sheltered campsites and out into the wilderness. The dimensions of the tent decrease in favour of reduced weight and pack size. Designs are based on a tunnel or geodesic shape, allowing a balance of weight, rigidity and wind resistance.    If you want to camp in remote locations or you have all year round camping plans, looking to get a more...

Outdoor Travel Equipment

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In a warm, sunny day, choose three or five friends, stay out of the city, get to nature, and relax. Outdoor sports are increasingly popular with the urban people, and for the inexperience man who has just been exposed to the outdoors, how do we buy outdoor equipment? Clothing First of all, make it clear that the clothes we usually wear are not suitable for  outdoor sports . Outdoor sports require clothing with "functions". Such as warm, breathable, waterproof and so on. Even when buying a garment in an outdoor sports store, we must pay more attention to function and availability, without having to tangle with styles and colors too much. Clothing must be dressed in an onion style to ensure that it can be increased or reduced at any time. The inner layer should wear fast dry clothes to avoid the cold wind effect of pure cotton underwear. Secondly, the  jacket  with warm effect .  Trousers  are also windproof, waterproof, and can play a better protective r...

Cycling Clothing for Beginners-Herisdo.com

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                                    You get hot as you ride your bike, even when it’s cold outside. In order to get rid of this heat, your body starts to sweat. This sweat has to go somewhere too though. Wearing a cotton shirt as you ride your bike is far from ideal. In fact, your shirt will soon be soaking wet and takes forever to dry up again. or Beginners The result is that your jersey starts feeling cold to your skin. As it’s directly on your skin, you’ll soon cool down and the riding wind will just make you feel colder and less comfortable. You can keep the cold at bay by wearing a proper cycling jersey and a base layer. A base layer ensures your sweat doesn’t stay right on your skin, but is moved away to the outer layer of your base layer. This is where your sweat can evaporate without cooling you down                     ...

Buying a new waterproof jacket

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                            A good waterproof jacket is essential for any kind of outdoor activity. Obviously it’s main purpose is to keep you nice and dry when the weather takes a turn for the worse, but it should also keep you warm and be breathable when part of an  effective layering system . Waterproof jackets are incredibly well made these days, with years of research and development going into their design. However, as with anything in life, they don’t last forever, and eventually it’ll start to succumb to the rigours of the outdoors. Buying a new waterproof jacket I f all else fails and your jacket is beyond repair then it might be time to treat yourself to a brand new one – and there are plenty to choose from with all sorts of features and technologies to help you battle the elements. So which waterproof jacket should you choose? Which features are right for you? A good way to det...

Knowledge for Hiking Boots

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       For hikers, a good pair of walking boots is perhaps the most important piece of equipment. Without the right boots, any hike is going to quickly become a miserable affair and can actually damage your feet and legs in the long term. Needless to say, choosing the right walking boots needs careful consideration. Buying walking boots can be a little confusing, particularly if you don’t really know what you’re looking at. In this buying guide, we’ll shed some light on what you should bear in mind when choosing pair of new hiking boots so that you can make a more informed choice and buy a pair that’s right for you.                                The different parts of a walking boot                                            O utsole The outsole is the ve...

Cycling Gloves

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Cycling gloves   are an essential part of the kit list of every regular cyclist, whilst the fact that they are relatively inexpensive means that they can be a very worthwhile purchase for more occasional cyclists too. In this blog, we discuss the benefits of wearing cycling gloves, as well as what factors to consider when buying a pair. What are the benefits of wearing gloves when cycling? There are a number of benefits of wearing gloves when cycling as opposed to bare hands. They provide protection, both whilst riding and in the event of a minor crash, they can increase your comfort by providing shock absorption and additional warmth, and as they can help keep your hands dry, this can benefit the level of grip on the bars you are able to obtain, which therefore benefits the control you have over your bike. Therefore whilst many of the benefits of gloves are in terms of comfort, they can offer performance benefits too, and the longer you spend on the bike,...

The best Waist Bag for Outdoors

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 1 Nylon Army Fan Outdoor Pockets with  Bottle Holder   This is the best hunting   waist bag  on our list, and it has many added extras which set it apart from the rest on the market. Available in a camouflage design, the material is tough and durable, so you can easily head out into rough terrain during your hunting trip, without having to worry about rips or damaging your fanny pack, as well as being waterproof. The hip belt is padded and adjustable up to 54”, and the zippers are strong and very quiet. There are two  zippered compartments which are large enough for everything you will need, and there is a grab handle at the top, for ease of use on the go. This particular waist bag  is ideal for various different uses aside from hunting, but for any outdoor activities, this is a great choice to go for 2 T ravel  Bag With Bag Sports Pockets This is one of the best travel waist bag  options on the market,  and it c...

Backpack is important for adventure

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How important is choosing the right backpack for your wilderness adventure? It will be one of the most critical purchases you will make, as it could make a difference in where you are able to go and how easily you get there. It will determine what kind, and how much gear you can carry. Both internal and external packs carry the varied gear and necessities a backpacker needs. Think about this: How many days do you expect to average on trail? Just having a general idea of the amount of gear you intend to carry will help make selecting your pack a bit easier. Each pack is rated by volume (cubic inches or liters) equaling how much space is available inside the main compartment and additional pockets. Check the manufacturer’s tag for the size and for how many days’ worth of gear they recommend it can hold. Many backpacks feature a waterproof sleeve inside to hold a water bladder/reservoir, with a convenient hole for the drinking hose to go through. Of course, they all will have padd...