What Is The Difference Between Hiking And Trekking
Hiking and trekking are terms that are often used in place of each
other.
However a lot of people are unaware that they are two very
different activities although both involve walking for the most
part....
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What Is The Difference Between Hiking And Trekking
Hiking and trekking are terms that are often used in place of each
other.
However a lot of people are unaware that they are two very
different activities although both involve walking for the most
part.
Hiking is leisure based activity and is done on trails and
manmade paths that are often easy to traverse.
Trekking however is not necessarily leisure
based and often involves traversing terrain
that does not have any form of a road.
Let us
look at some other differences between hiking
and trekking.
Environmental impacts:
The long-term impacts of hiking in some areas
have led to degradation of the environment.
Since hiking involves
walking the same laid out paths in natural areas, it is a given
that over time the environment is affected.
Trekking involves traversing lesser known routes and in many cases
people don t take the same route even though they are going to the
same place.
This does not however mean that the environmental
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