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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 […]
Most beginner women spend time researching hiking boots and completely ignore their socks. This is a mistake — and their feet pay for it about two hours into the hike. The wrong socks — specifically cotton socks — hold moisture against your skin, create friction, and cause blisters faster than almost anything else on the […]
