Tips for Choosing a tent for hiking

As a backpacker sometimes we must be prepared to stay in all places including outdoors. Then the tool as a tent and sleeping bag should we think if we want backpacker 'off the beaten track'. Here is the light posts on the various tents and sleeping bags, tips on installing and how to choose a sleeping bag from the comfort of their use.

• Backpacker Tent: Generally mild, tunnel-shaped, have a small packing size and easy to carry. limited capacity 
• Dome Tent: Lightweight and compact so easy to carry a backpack but with a wider space of the tent backpacker. Very idela for traveling light as music festivals or camping weekend. 
• Tents For Small Families: Usually has a large enough space to store equipment. It is ideal for small groups or families in the weekly Saturday event. 
• Tents For Large Families: With a more complete feature for space, store equipment and also a place to sleep. 
• Technical Tent: Lightweight, compact, and highly waterproof reinforced with poles of the alloy. This tent for expeditions where the terrain is not very friendly. 
• Temporary shelter (emergency), bivy Tent: waterproff, ideal for all weather as conditions can change at any time.

 Tips on Setting Up Tent:

• Before installing the tent clean place that will be used from the rocks and dirt 
• Avoid places in the lowlands when the air flow makes almost no moisture on the increase. Also if rain tents tend to capture more water. 
• Sunlight can damage the tent, if you can plug in the shade 
• Make sure the tent with adequate ventilation to reduce condensation 
• Keep sleeping bags and clothing with a waterproof bag in case it rains jka and had to move tents 
• Bring equipment such as tents can to improve the insulation tape 
• Never cook inside the tent because the tent fabric is easy to burn and melt. 
• Do not stamped metal tent poles, packing the one from the middle to the edge. Give a little oil for the treatment.

  

Hiking Tips for Beginners

Hiking Tips

Hiking or mountain climbing can be a theme of your holiday weekend. Hiking is an outdoor activities that are popular among young people, in addition to hiking is a symbol of sport and recreation where you will walk through the desert, deserts, climb the hill up to the mountain. This is done so that you discover the beauty of the scenery during your hike.Climbers do not need to be an expert to enjoy the benefits of climbing hiking. For beginners do not need to worry, the following safety tips for doing hiking, so your adventure will please even the rain, including:

Planning ascent 
You are required to plan carefully climbing. Beginning with site selection hiking, climbing routes, the number of climbers, weather conditions, time your hike to the preparation of supplies and other equipment needs to be prepared.

Prepare physically and mentally 
Before making your hiking advised to maintain a healthy and regular exercise. It is meant to keep you physically for hiking later.

Bring enough equipment and not burden your innate 
Bring equipment if required when hiking, luggage set based on the location, the length of your hike, the weather conditions to climb the number of participants. Some of the equipment is very important to take that special backpack hiking, trekking boots, heavy jacket, raincoat, sleeping bag (sleeping bag), a change of clothes in moderation, mini cookware, flashlights, tents, matches, plastic bags, medicine - drugs and other - other if only need to be taken. In inserting equipment into a bag, it is recommended to put heavy items on the top while the perlengakapn light at the bottom. This is usefull in order to be the heaviest burden your shoulders, not at the waist that allows you to walk while mountain climbing.

Communication tools (mobile) 
So you can easily contact family while climbing requires extensive provider network. KartuHALO of Telkomsel answer your questions about the GSM card that has a wide network signal. Some of the other advantages offered by kartuHALO include: (1) Widest Coverage HSPA is a strong communication network with the widest cangkupan and priorities in the network High Speed ​​Packet Access (HSPA), (2) Priority data access up to 7.2 Mbps, with priority access to services faster data up to 7.2 Mbps, and (3) Best rate for IDD and International Roaming service, the international roaming service with affordable rates. While you dipuncak mountain, you can still communicate fluently with family and colleagues without interruption - broken.

Obtaining permits climb 
Before the hike, you are required to report to and obtain permission from some parties, especially Ascent Pos. This is so post ascent to contact family or colleagues when a disaster occurs while you climb.

Keeping nature 
Enjoy the beauty of nature with nature while always keeping climbing, during the ascent avoid actions - actions that can damage the natural beauty and balance of nature, such as littering, cross out - cross it to cut down plants at random.With tips - tips following the ascent will be done according to expectations and avoid things - things like unwanted stray ayau hipotemia (condition in which the body's mechanism for temperature regulation difficulties overcome cold stress). Happy holidays.

Tips: Choosing Hiking Shoes

Hiking Shoes

Legs for mountaineers is the most important to be maintained, so that a climbing trip can pass comfortably. Today many of the mountaineers in Indonesia wearing sandals while hiking, but this is very dangerous because it does not protect the feet. There is some risk of accident hikers who wore sandals to climb as:

• big toe or finger nails were chipped stone hit
• broken toes because wedge roots or between the stones
• Injury due to rocks or tree roots
• Sprain on leg joints, and other

There are various reasons mountaineers receipts slippers when asked why, the majority is due to wear mountain boots like blisters, actually it is not entirely true, if we choose the right hiking boots and the blisters that do not wear can be avoided. Before you decide to buy a pair of hiking boots, think about the following things first:

• Before you start buying a pair of hiking boots, think carefully about what kind of hiking you will do. Choose hiking boots are designed to provide support and protection you need for the toughest terrain you will encounter later.
 
• Choose shoes that are designed to support the load you are going to take. The more weight you are, the more support you will need.
 
• Remember that a good hiking shoe does not have to have a heavy weight. High-tech materials today have replaced the traditional role of the metal rods and other heavy elements that provide stability in a shoe boot., As a result, today's hiking boots are much lighter and still be able to provide protection and support to the foot.
 
• Consider also the advantages of the shoes are made from leather or canvas with leather entirely. Shoes are made ​​from canvas and leather lighter but more fragile as well., But entirely leather shoes offer extra protection and durability in rugged terrain, and more waterproof and breathing.
 
• Adult's Hiking Boots that have the best qualities including ones made ​​of canvas or leather, made ​​with Gore-Tex ® lining makes holding water but moisture vapor can make feet out. It is a real plus when you're dealing with a puddle of water or small river stream that must be passed

Once you decide to buy it when choosing hiking boots should not forget the following tips:

Hiking Boots

• Buy shoes that are not boots or a lower cut sneaker models as if wearing a lower cut shoe with ankle joints you are not protected from possible strain or hurt tergoes stone. Boots will protect your feet from possible injuries above.

• Buy hiking boots number one or two feet above your normal number, if your legs buy number 40 number 42. This is useful to prevent blisters and toenail injury since stuck with the tip of the shoe.

• Try a pair of these shoes first, tie his shoelaces until everyone lobal rope, right shoe tongue position. A pair of boots that we wear should be fit and comfortable feel, jarijari legs can also shake it.
Almost all hiking boots are not immediately felt uncomfortable when first worn as shoes sniker. But the boots will fit around the ankle and protect the instep.
• When trying on shoes boots, try to wear them to walk down the slope. Your legs should not be shifted forward or your toenails are not crushed in the front gets the boot. If your feet move forward it could be because his boots are too wide, if the back of your heel is loose, it could be possible because your boots the laces are not tied tight.

• When trying to boot, foot wear KOAs which will you wear when climbing. We recommend to use two layers of socks. That the first layer in the form of a thin polyester socks to discard moisture, and a pair of thick wool socks to the outside. Today there are also synthetic socks that are designed for every type of mountain climbing and hiking activities.

• When you buy a pair of boots, these boots are slowly lemaskanlah way to wear a short hiking trip, or wear for a walk around the block where your residence for at least 30 minutes each day. Moreover, the shoe is made of leather, so it will take time to get used to your foot wear lemas.Jadi first duhulu and also so that the skin becomes more supple.
By applying the above tips possibility of hiking boots you will hurt your feet will be very small. So let's put on seaptu when you climb the mountain, stay right sandal, because sandals are not standard equipment for use mendai mountain.

General Preparation Hiking Mountain

Hiking Mountain

Mountain climbing is a sport that is rated strenuous and quite extreme. Expenses and rugged terrain, and the risk that could come at any time and at any time. For some of us who do not love the nature, hiking is an activity totally useless. In addition to experience chills and fatigue are very heavy, the risk would be faced also quite large. There have been many stories we hear the mountaineers who severely injured and even killed because of a variety of things such as climbing mountains fall into the abyss, freezing to death, or get lost. But for the adventurous mountain or the audience of the beauty of nature, this activity is very pleasant and always in waiting. Could see the green trees, walking down the jungle, walking through a steep gorge, cross the river and climb hills with views of nature are very unusual.

There are some things we have to prepare before making the climb. Preparation, will bring satisfactory results: So planning must be thoroughly prepared as well as possible, for failing to plan means planning to fail. Among them are:

1. Preparation of physical exercise.

Strong physical needs of the climb. Because the terrain we face is not always flat and downhill. It would be nice if we exercise regularly before. The easiest is by jogging at least 30 minutes a day. This is to keep our body fit. Make it a habit to keep your body fit and familiar faces tough terrain. This sport is tailored to the ability of our body, do not push.

2. Mental preparation.

In the mental ascent is very influential, because if mental well, then the physical will follow to be good too, but if not it will be otherwise. Each person padti understand the mental state itself. Private mental readiness will also greatly affect the condition of the team. Mentally not ready, maybe you should not push yourself.

3. Checking the state of the destination place.

This is one of the most important parts of planning a trip. We should seek as much information as possible about the location of the mountain, the road conditions to be skipped, the length of the trip, to the provision of logistics to be taken associated with the budget to be prepared.

4. Preparing administration.

Do not forget we have to prepare all the necessary procedures for permit to enter the area to be addressed. Do not forget to carry an identity card. In some national parks, without identity cards we can not get into the region.

5. Checking readiness skills and knowledge.

At least we have the knowledge to be able to live in the wild. Minimum capabilities necessary for climbers is the knowledge of land navigation, survival knowledge and practical way to prevent a hazard (basic medical sciences).

6. Know your travel companions.

The activities were fun like mountain climbing can be done by anyone. Moreover, in this country, many organizations and communities can be a container for one's hobby. Identify your first climbing friends. One more value if he or they had to climb the mountain first. That way, you do not have to worry about the drive up the mountain. Imagined when we set out with who have never climbed a mountain all? What happened.

7. Preparing equipment.The following equipment or supplies required to be taken when climbing:

•  Carrier. In use to accommodate all the supplies and climbing equipment.
• Matras. Function as a base at rest. Can also be used as a liner, so that carrier looks more neat and convenient to use.
• Poncho / Raincoat. It's for in case it rains while climbing. Because the weather in the mountains is often hostile and unpredictable. 
• Portable stove + gas or paraffin and nesting. It closely kaitanya with food needs during the climb. Because the forest we easily starve. : D 
• Tent. It used to break in a long time in order to protect the climber in the event of rain or high winds. Usually taken consideration climbers. 
• Sleeping Bag / sleeping bag. This tool serves to cover while sleeping on the mountain climbers to avoid the cold weather of the mountains. And in certain cases, it could be a first aid when there is hypothermia. 
• Head lamp / flashlight / hurricane. Hiking at night can run smoothly if we have lighting equipment that is in good condition. 
• Skullcaps, gloves, thick socks, and shoes specialized mountain. It is not recommended to wear sandals, especially flip-flops. In certain circumstances the mountain sandals can be used as well. 
• Jacket. Needless thick, which can withstand cold enough alone. 
• Clothes. to drive home or if the clothes we wear wet with rain. It is not recommended to wear clothing made from jeans.
• P3K tools, personalized medicine. 
• Toiletries or clean-up, equipment prayers. In the forest we will find a different flavor when worship or prayer. 
• Rice, instant food / canned drinks mineral taste. No need to move all the food into the bag, because not only will kemakan become heavy-emphasis and luggage. Availability of food is enough to be able to provide enough energy as well as climbing.
• Machete slash, folding knives, and binoculars. 
• Documentation tool. This is to capture every event and will add its own preoccupations as home to a collection increased. Since the photograph / video is more valuable than any gift.