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Summer hiking sounds simple — it’s warm, you pack less, you don’t need to worry about wet weather layers. Then you do your first hot-weather hike in a cotton t-shirt and discover that sweat-soaked cotton sticks to your skin, takes forever to dry, and makes a three-hour trail feel twice as miserable as it needs […]
My first hiking leggings were a pair of yoga leggings I already owned. They worked fine on my first few easy trails — comfortable, stretchy, nothing to complain about. Then I did a 12km hike with 400m of elevation in them on a warm day and discovered exactly what yoga leggings can’t do: they held […]
I used to think hiking in the rain sounded miserable — and then I did it wrong twice and decided it actually was. The first time, I wore a cotton hoodie under a cheap supermarket rain mac and was soaked through to my skin within forty minutes. The second time I overcorrected: I wore so […]
I used to think any waterproof jacket would do for hiking. I owned a £30 supermarket rain mac that worked fine in the car park and completely failed me on a three-hour ridge walk in a Scottish drizzle — wet through in 90 minutes, freezing, and still three miles from the car. The problem wasn’t […]
The first time I showed up to a trailhead in jeans and regular trainers, I didn’t make it two miles before I was uncomfortable, overheating, and regretting every clothing choice I’d made that morning. Nobody told me that fabric matters on the trail. Nobody told me that denim turns into a damp, chafing nightmare the […]
