Why I Like Hiking At Night
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- 00:29 Avoid Heat of the Day
01:14 Solitude
01:57 Change of Scenery
03:43 Night Sky
05:28 Night Critters
06:28 More in tune with senses/nature
07:07 Make Up Time
08:09 Confidence
09:26 Precautions For #NatHackin
09:47 Light
10:31 Watch/Listen Out For Snakes
11:14 Don't Night Hike In Grizzly Bear Country
11:21 Avoid River Crossings
11:42 Prepare for the Terrain Ahead
12:14 Check Weather
12:36 Make Sure You're Still on Trail
13:03 Stay Hydrated
13:26 Go With A Group
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You are the reason I had the courage to do my first night hike alone in the Smokies for a sunrise. It was AMAZING. I was so nervous at the trail head and my heart was pounding until I got out of the rhododendron bushes, but I just kept thinking of all the times I watched you night hike on the PCT. Seeing the stars and the moon and having the trail all to myself was so magical. I'll never forget it! Thank you for inspiring us all.
Same girl!!!!
I hiked at night once. Every sound was a cougar.
TheWillRogers - You would encounter the same thing at a nightclub 😬
I'm more afraid of mice because mice will try and get in your tent haha
It takes a while to get used to hiking at night but you never stop thinking every sound is a cougar/bear/wolf/crazy-person. What happens is that you program your brain to not be afraid of those things. Took me a few years to finally do that. Bringing some form of protection can help with it, like a gun/spray/knife, but time alone can eventually desensitize you enough that you can feel comfortable with night hiking. I'm a big scaredy cat BTW. :)
@@shadowprince4482 Yea, i'm packing bear spray from now on, but now i'm afraid of accidentally setting the can off...
TheWillRogers That would be horrible! I stressed over that for a bit in grizzly country (setting off spray), but I comforted myself by saying “at least it won’t kill me” 😂
I just came back from a short walk in the dark, just in my neighborhood. I heard an owl and this alone was worth walking in the dark!
Dixie,
I concur...
Every January I lead a small group of hikers on a winter night hike (just after sunset) up to the AMC Lonesome Lake Hut in Franconia Notch NH. The hut is open 24/7/365 but we don't stay overnight but visit the hut for a while, cross the frozen lake and enjoy the dark stillness of night in the woods. They do light the wood stove on winter evenings which is welcoming. The years that we have snow falling during the hike make for an almost magical evening. It's a very popular trail in the daytime but mostly all to ourselves at night. Winter hiking gets us use to hiking in darkness due to the short day light hours. Not many animals on the trail on winter nights...no bugs either.
A recommended night hike gear video would be cool.
I love to night hike, especially the first night out. I have trouble sleeping that first night, so if I’m feeling good I just keep going and stop the next day when I want. I eat breakfast and dinner on the trail, not in camp, so my standard schedule is stopping around 9 or 10 pm and back on the trail at 4 or 5 am, so always a little night hiking on both ends. But there’s a lot to be said for sleeping during the day, when it’s warmer, less bugs, if day forecast is for clear skies, less worry about bears and critters going after your food (I sleep with my food when day-napping).
I've been know to go on hikes around my campsites for years. I find it an interesting activity to do while camping. Over also done a lot of approach trail hiking in the dark when climbing mountains in the summer. It always struck me as a good way to help the less interesting part of the climb pass a little quicker.....and you didn't have to look up and see all of the vertical you still had to hike! I once climbed a 14er in Colorado all in the dark with the moonlight, getting to the summit at midnight. I saw someone's campfire way down below me near a small lake, and later I watched lightning roll through South Park several miles to the southeast. It was truly a cool experience!
Hiked at night for the first time yesterday. Saw a huge buck and a coyote on the road just before getting out of my car to start, so that was a great start to get the blood pumping! Was a great experience in the end.
Interesting video. I've spent countless hours hiking at night: on my way to and from climbs, to and from hunts. I've had to start or finish in the dark, or walk all night, because of some exigency.
I can't think of one time that I would not rather have been covering that ground in daylight. In the dark, you can't see much, photography is very difficult. If you're moving, your vision is confined to the limit of your headlamp. If you turn off your light to enjoy the stars and the ambience of darkness, you can't move efficiently.
On long backpacks I often get up in the dark and hike at dawn. But I'm out there to SEE stuff.
A wonderful place to night hike is Point Reyes National Seashore in California. I used to get off work on Friday night and drive the 60 miles to the Point and arrive with just enough time to take the trail to the cliffs above the shoreline to watch the sunset, then hike back in the dark. And man it's dark. The park is filled with deer and elk, and fallow deer that look like ghosts, but I've never seen a snake there or a cougar. I think the cougars have enough of their normal prey that they don't endanger people, but I don't really know that. You'll see deer and raccoon eyes floating around in the gloom when you shine your light their way, One time I was walking through a carpet of bright orange salamanders that covered the trail for a several hundred yard stretch, so intent on trying to not squash them that I missed the trail fork and got lost for awhile. Trying to avoid big slugs too. The beach is fascinating. Little critters come up onto the sand to mate, and if you watch them you'll see how determined they are. Hordes of them come ashore, and they stop for nothing. The Park has nighttime gatherings to explore the environment, but if your're hiking away from the few campsites there you won't see another person, even on the main trails.
My 2 brothers and I hiked 40 miles of the Georgia portion of the AT. Our last night we hiked in the dark and it was the best time we had that whole trip!
In Switzerland at the moment you have daylight from 7:30 - 16:30. Doing 50 miles in 9 hours is possible, but then you run at a higher pace, something I can't do given my poor training. So I took shelter behind a giant heap of tree trunks, well secluded for the night. Hunters were shooting boars much closer to me than I would have liked. I got up at 6:30 in the morning and hiked till 23:15. There is no danger whatsoever, the temperatures were warmish. You need to watch your step because of the tree roots, but you better do this also during the day.
The Chihuahuan desert at night looks like a coral reef in black and white. The various cactus look like various corals. There are eyes everywhere! Really love it!
Great topic. As a teen and in college in the US desert southwest, we frequently night hiked to both avoid the heat, and in the cooler months, starting off after class on a Friday to get some distance from the roads and development, setting up for a great launch into the wild places the next morning. Most of the travel was often off the trail, and instead was along the broad arroyos and washes leading to the mountains or canyons. Easy to navigate in starlight. This was also in an era before long before LED lamps and batteries were at a premium. No, we didn't carry paleo-nalgene's of acid and copper rods for lighting but LED's and packable inflatable mattresses are the great triumphs for hikers of the 20th Century. As a WY-MT hiker later life, no in Griz country I do not night hike but do try to camp where there might be some great views in parks, meadows for eastern folks, cienegas for my NM friends, to spot the changing shift in wildlife at dusk.
I flew freights in the attic, and let me tell you how amazingly, unbelievably awesome the Northern Lights are!!! It STUNNED me!
I night hiked in the grand canyon once. The moon was so bright you could see better with it than the head lamps. It was amazing and magical, seeing the canyon form the inside looking up with the starry sky for a backdrop. It was the best part of the hike.
With limited daylight I’ve started taking my 7 and 9 year old daughters night hiking. They LOVE IT, more so than daytime hiking. My hope is that with them getting comfortable with this now that it will be a benefit on longer backpacking trips when we hike late.
can't wait for your hikes in 2020 in NZ!!!!!!
Intresting topic, Love night Hikes, have done quite a few, But always best done on a designated Trail, once was leading a group thro a thick Jungle that had no established route as in no trail , when we took a break after an hour or so ,i asked ppl to conserve their batteries and switched off all lights , when we commenced ,i had to get my bearings via my GPS otherwise would have been sure lost.
Lesson Learnt always have Ure GPS around or only night Hike on a Trail. And always carry extra Lights and Batteries....cause some one always needs it....
I like night hiking and have mostly done it after something went horribly wrong. I follow the rule of 3 (one is none) for light sources. And, its only gone to the third light source once. Good LED lights are cheap now, find a good one and take several. Nothing like the old days.
I did hike the SoCal desert at night. Amazing critters roaming at night!!! And the starry skys!!!
I loved hiking max pach sun set and the moon coming up!
GPS helps to navigate at night as well.
It’s a lot cooler at night toWhen it’s so hot during the dayEspecially in Georgia
Love all your videos.this one is great as well.....have you ever considered hiking to base camp of mount Everest?
i used to do a lot of surfcasting (fishing off the beach) at night. the sky is amazing at night. and there's a lot less people on the beach at night. the downside is you gotta sleep during the day, either in your truck or your camper and it gets HOT. i'd imagine that would stand true in the desert also. so how do you sleep during the day in the desert?
Thanks, Dixie. 🙏🏼. LOL.....great to see Hank here. 😍I thought that was him over your shoulder just before you called him back. Of course he showed up imitating a wolf just as you were talking about the animals you might see at night. 😲 Good timing. 👍
Karen W Hahaha. His timing is usually pretty great. He trots around like a little coyote 🤦🏼♀️
Hank being called out 8:53 to 9:02. Love that rascal!
I'm more into seeing the view during the day than reaching point B by a certain time. I would consider naat haakin if it was a road section or an easy track I have done before. Perhaps using red light (some headtorches have it) would be best to preserve night vision.....?
From ok Boomer to Millennials....enjoy night hikes now before you lose your night vision! I miss my all noc hikes done with full moons(no flashlight) against the white granite formations in the Sierra's and the red Rock monoliths of the Grand Canyon, Bryce and Sedona.
That one Rock that will trip me up and I'll break something in the fall!
Hello. If you have time. My question is east vs west. Say Tennessee vs (Washington/Montana) What side did you find more amazing?
LOL - Hank, get your S back here! (8:50)
I love night hiking
Bigger fear than bears? Rocks, rocks, and more rocks. Regardless of the headlamp, they leap up and bite your feet causing a tumble a twist of the ankle or an injury. Generally not worth it to me. But, HYOH. Cheers, Tortoise
The miles seem to fly by a lot quicker at night.
8:57 Ha ha ! Was Hank wandering off ? At least he wasn't eating sandpaper, LOL !
deborah gracie YES! He was. Silly rascal! The sandpaper debacle is hopefully over 😭
@@HomemadeWanderlust Even though I joke I totally understand how you felt. One time my cat grabbed a piece of cellophane (the candy wrapper type) out of the garbage bucket and proceeded to chew it and before I could grab her to take it out of her mouth she swallowed it ! I was aghast. I think she smiled at me. If I remember correctly, I called the vet and they said she will poop it out soon enough. I checked all her poop (cut it apart) for three days and never found it. Not sure what happened to it. Sandpaper is much more worrisome. Not funny when they do that.
"What in the X-Files mess is this?!" lmao
What location is that in the video where you can see the Milky Way ?
I have had a stroke behind one eye and the other trys to take over for both. I can't see at night so I will just read everyone's stories.
This reminds me of the Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "Moonlight is sculpture, sunlight is painting"
@@billyjoeboomboom Never heard that one before but I like it.
Why I like to night hike: THE FRICKIN STARS
In your next video, can you please say, "The white light shines bright at night"? 😂😍😂😍😂
Here in Scotland we have a (very) Scottish saying and it's quite similar in meaning - "It's a braw bricht moonlit nicht the nicht".
That's funny! I'm sure a lot of us have been hoping to hear her say something where she maintains full accent for an entire sentence. You're a gem, Dixie.
Night hiked recently on the longest day /shortest night to see both the sunset and the sunrise with just a few hours of darkness in between. Magical experience.
I like hiking at night without a light. Your eyes adjust quickly and I can see better and farther. With a light it limits my sight to the illuminated area. I’m also not viewable from miles away by everything.
Night hiked for my first time and it was pretty cool!
#nathackin 😂
I was watching this shocking scene of a coyote behind you, and shortly afterward found out you named him Hank.
I love it... but I really do miss the views I know I can’t see.
I really enjoy starting at 4-5am and enjoying a few hours before sun rises.
But you can just use the moonlight/starlight & a flashlight, or is it that it’s just different?
I'll add one bit of night hiking advice: When you know the batteries in your headlamp are pretty low, change to your new batteries while it's still light BEFORE the old ones go dead. Turns out those little pluses and minuses inside the headlamp can be tinier than you thought!
Always remember this tip as well!! The flat side of the battery always goes against the spring. It’s just habit to do it like that nowadays, I don’t even read them.
Does anyone else love how Dixie says Night Hike?
Neigh-hi-kin" I love it too. So sweet.
Few things in life are as magical as walking the forest by the light of a full moon (or any moon light for that matter). On moonless nights under a clear sky, it is amazing how much light the stars provide.
Nice video, have hiked over 100 miles at the Grand Canyon and probably 25% of that was in the dark. The Canyon is a special place after sunset, it is almost like hiking through an Ansel Adams photograph. I am glad that most people don't like to night hike since the feeling of having a trail all to oneself is pretty special. Happy trails!
I love night hiking The Canyon at night as well. We hiked from Clear Creek back to Phantom at night. There was a full moon and it was amazing. The only thing to be careful of was depth perception. Sometimes it was hard to tell if you needed to step up onto a rock or down off of the rock. It was one of the best hikes every though.
Tahoe2002Md . Hiking the GC this year at night. Tips? I hiked four hours last year down BAT. Comfortable with hiking at night. Wild life safety tips?
If you get a chance to night hike White Sands National Park in New Mexico you won't regret it. 👍
I love night hiking up the Middle Sister (Central Oregon Cascade Mountains) in August to watch the Persid Meteor shower.
Hunter Archer I did the South Sister this past August for the same reason. Darn full moon though! I did it half way through circumnavigating the Three Sisters. Also nothing like a dawn on the top of a mountain! Mountain shadows are spectacular!
Great idea!
"Night Crawler's" (who does a lot of night hiking) best comment on this was 'I think I can make out a black bear at a few feet away.'
Lol you guys are cracking me up ! But she has hit the nail on the head. Done carefully you can enjoy it and love the change !
While out one night, in a foreign desert, I counted 121 falling stars. There were more, I just got tired of counting. Texas
How many wishes came true? Lol
I once camped out w/ my gf near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon during the Perseid meteor shower. We had a shared a bottle of cheap wine, a portable radio, and the most spectacular display of nature that I've ever witnessed. This was back in the mid 90s... that girl is only a distant memory now, but I'll never forget the firey streaks across that midnight sky!
Nait haikin with a lait lookin at the skai just feels rait. Ah luv yew haikin gal! lol
Use a red headlight . Your eyes will adjust to the ambient light.
Doesn't red light not scare away animals though?
One of the most beautiful experiences I've ever had in the wilderness occurred in the dead of night just to the east of Mt. Adams in Washington state. I had been hunting for 5 days and was lucky enough to take my first elk. I field dressed her and then went back to my truck, about 2 miles away. I drove closer to the kill sight and hiked back to start breaking down the animal. It was cold, in the 20's with about 8 inches of fresh snow covering an old clear cut with about five years of growth. As the sun went down, I knew there was a New Moon and would be completely dark soon. The night was completely clear, quiet and calm.What I didn't count on was the illumination provided by the stars, the snow covered ground and the mountain, which was pretty close. I had a small lantern and a good headlamp to guide my work, which took about 5 hours including multiple hikes back to the truck while packing out the meat. As I was working, bent over, I stood up to stretch my sore back. The immense beauty of the star filled night, the close proximity of this huge 10,000 foot mountain, and my absolute solitude, suddenly dawned on me. I was utterly alone, many miles from the closest town, out of cell range the entire week, and in the wilderness. It was beautiful and it gave me a new perspective on many things, on our planet, its beauty and vulnerability, of my place in the world and my small contribution to our society. I also thought of my vulnerability. There are many predators in the Cascade mountains; Black Bears, wolves, cougars, Bigfoot? It was a great experience, a first for me. I have repeated that same feeling many times since and I recommend it to anyone with a sense of adventure. Ancient societies used to have rights of passage for young men to go out into the wilderness alone and survive, learn and grow up a little. Can't wait to go night hiking. Great post.
One of my favorite moments last year was a late night solo hike at Daniel Boone National Forest, in pouring rain and the most dense fog I've ever seen. Using a headlamp was really disorienting, with the fog becoming a million points of glimmer. My chosen trail was an old closed forest service road, an easy path amidst rugged terrain. Everything I needed for a return to comfort right on my back. On another night hike last year I saw my first copperhead. On another night I watched a very distant but spectacular thunderstorm. Last year was my first time out with a backpack in over 35 years, and I spent about ten weekends out enjoying DBNF. Thanks Dixie, your great content really helped get me out there! It all started when I thought "I wonder what backpacking gear is like these days..." And as a newbie, solo, and old, I make every choice the safer one, but LOVE night hiking on a familiar trail.
hi: my question is: I really don't want to night hike with a light. Can't a person night hike without a light? Have you done it in moon light? thx.
Anyone ever hear a mountain lion screech at night? It was either a mountain lion or fox or some other animal screeching or I legit heard someone get murdered. That was nightmare fuel for me right there.
timevampire83 ever hear a panther? Sounds like a woman screaming. Bone. Chilling.
The *SQUACH* is gonna take your virtue...
*HARD*
My biggest fear is aggressive men 😞
I feel you
Let’s be honest, this applies to daytime as well
Dixie, I love hiking during a full moon. Everything looks so different.
I did an overnight hike 4 days ago (August 29 - 30). My purpose was to see and video a bit of the Pikes Peak Hill Climb (August 30). Because of COVID-19 this year there were to be no fan tickets and no fans allowed near the course. I would have liked to get to the site, The Devil's Playground, before 4:00 am, but didn't want to get there too early. So I started at 8:00pm, a bit after sunset. Stupidly, I picked a further away trailhead, Horsethief Park. Rather than a closer trailhead which I suspected would be closed or overcrowded, Craigs Campground.
Started on a familiar trail with a 3/4 moon, but thin high-altitude clouds had rolled in. Clouds thickened and at 9:00 pm it started raining. Not heavy, just light sprinkles. The sprinkles continued on and off until about 11:00 pm. Found my proper turn, but the trail was steep, on a north slope in heavy trees, and with plenty of boulders. Somehow I ended up on the wrong side of the creek and got off trail. My sure-fire, "Keep the slope to my right and keep moving upward," went on and on. My cell-phone apps were next to useless. I kept seeing glimpses of lights to my north, which didn't make sense. Finally noticed I had a couple of bars of cell power so I opened a web browser and fired up Google Maps. The blue GPS dot on the map showed I was a full mile north of where I expected and close to treeline. Since my objective was NE of where I started, "too far north" was fine.
Broke out of the trees about 1:00 am and had a boulder field to scramble up to ridge. Fortunately the moon made lights unnecessary. Took a tumble and lost my hat. Then on the ridge I got confused, thinking I was traveling NE I got to hiking south. The moon was right in front of me.... how had it swung back east? Oh yeah, it hadn't. Looong hike above treeline, exhausted, legs totally jellified, and avoiding boulder fields to give my legs a rest. As the moon sank in the west it turned yellow, then orange, red, and finally brown before it vanished-smoke from a fire west of me. Finally found the trail from the other trailhead and took that the rest of the way.
Got to within sight of the parking lot at 5:00 am. People were there, which I avoided. I finally found a shallow cave to get out of the wind, and waited for the race to start. It was almost 9:00 am before the first car, and I was caught and kicked off the mountain at 10:00 am.
*It was an amazing adventure. Nine hours nonstop, the majority of it off trail. Made me wonder if I had a death wish. There were places that if I'd busted an ankle good chance no one would find me for a couple of years. But oh God it was beautiful! The western flank of Pikes Peak is stunning. I've now got in my head several other off-trail approaches-probably during the day. I'd love to try the west fork of West Beaver Creek. Or try to find the proper trail I'd missed Saturday. Now I just need to find someone as nuts as I am so I don't have to die alone in the wilderness.*
♥️🙂
Very timely content, Dixie. I've been doing more night hikes lately for some of the very reasons you listed. Very relaxing ( for me ) , being out in a snowfall with a headlamp and the sound of crunching snow under your feet. I'll forgive you Southerners for failing to mention that particular benefit to night hikes.
Nothing like hearing the coyotes at night beside the trail
Usually coyotes are very leery of people
Going out for my first night hike in Northern Wisconsin this weekend.
I've hiked in the back-country every morning before daybreak for the past 30 years. It's magical and energizing. Early morning is the best time to see wildlife.
It really allows you to have the trail to yourself. I enjoy it, especially with a full moon.
I love kayaking at night down a river.
Skyaking .
It's like floating on air.
For 'peak bagging', and other activities, night hiking has advantages, especially if the ascent starts on a waning moon (few days to a week past a full moon). Selecting this time places the moon more overhead in the hours leading up to dawn, essentially lengthening the day. A hike starting at ~3 AM can get in 8 hours before lunchtime and the heat of the day sets in..
🎵The stars at night are big and bright ...
even when your not in Texas..
A short-night hike in the North (Scandinavia/ Scotland) in midsummer, might be a good way to start, especially under a Full Moon.
Night hike to increase the distance from the mummy!
Mnt. Whitney under a full moon is awesome! You don't need a headlamp, and the moonlight reflecting off the granite walls is amazing. Hiking down on a non-moonlit night, I passed what I can only assume was a bear. I had my flash lite on and heard a loud 'snort' not far off the trail. I looked around and kept walking.
There are monsters under the bed, and one's limbs must never hang over the edge.
Boogie Monster by Gnarls Barkley
Yep, my feet are always covered and you NEVER hang them over the side of the bed, ( something might grab them)!!
@@rickchapman4240 No, not might, something WILL grab them.
@@jimosage6499 ha!ha! Good one! I'll remember that!!👍😂
Fully agree with all you say in this video. I use the headlamp (or any lamp) as little as possible and once used to the darkness you kinda adjust to it. Like to feel that the shape on the ground is not right and it turns out to be a rattler. It's fun to rely on more senses than just vision.
The absence of sound on a warm night in the wilderness is somethin else. Like a deep meditation
How did Hank not make the summary? It should have read.
08:09 Confidence
8:57 Hank
09:26 Precautions For #NatHackin
NORTHERN LIGHTS : Dixie,Check this out ua-cam.com/video/HFGMMmX843w/v-deo.html "Aurora Borealis" from C.W. McCall's 1976 "Wilderness" album. SMELLS: As the night air cools, the ground becomes warmer than the air and give off heat, which rises into the air, and it carries the scents that were low to or on the ground, rocks, and plants (such as flowers). That's why wolves and other animals like to forage at night.
Haven't thru hiked, but have hiked 100's of night miles for the sake of photographing night scenes and think the views are as good or better than the day, and feel more safe from cougars since their eyes make giant reflections in your light, so they're actually easier to see then in the day. Just my $0.02 Great vid! Not enough people know night hiking rules!
March 24,2020 new moon. Check out the Cosmic Campground in the Gilla Wilderness in the New Mexican desert. If you want to check out the super moon we have two coming up this year. One on February and one in March.
Sooooooo, whats next? I've been following your journey since the very first day on the Appalachian trail and REALLY hoping that its not over...Are you kicking around any ideas?
Starting my PCT hike in 60 days, thanks for terrifying me with those clips of those long caterpillars 😧 scared of bugs and stuff that is creepy crawly.
Question, though; I think hiker midnight is like 8 or 9’ish... so when does a typical night hike end? 11pm?
I took a night hike recently just to try out some of my gear. I am glad I did because I had several fails. Two of those fails included both headlamps I had with me. They both had been working just fine even days before.
I am glad as d I did this because now I know that I need a better quality as lity headlamp. I got both of mine working again, but I dont trust them, and one of the lights, which seemed adequate a close distances really sucked at lightning up anything over 20 feet away.
Basically I am just saying put your gear to the test. Better to have a fail now than to have it happen when you really need something.
Can you give an example of your sleep/wake schedule? How do you get enough sleep if you’re up at night and still hiking in the early, cooler morning hours?
Night hiking, 👍Not hiking 👎(almost sound the same coming from Southern mouth to Yankee ear)! 😊 Love your accent, though it seems to be less pronounced than it used to be. I've made the mistake of following blue blazes on the AT, especially in the early days of the evolution of L.E.D. headlamps, when the bulbs had a blueish cast. I would like to see a short video where you talk about the strong friendships that you have made during your long hikes - who you keep in contact with, those you miss, etc. Maybe you could also include some of your most memorable town people, too. Thanks!
Everything sounds huge at night. I used to kayak home from work by skylight from nearby Hartford. Wonderful. Keep that 1100 Lumen lamp handy and avoid cliffs, snake dens etc. Have fun. I stayed out till dusk last week. Saw a possum, looked right at me, and a cougar! They are occassionaly seen here. we had one road killed in Milford. I got it's scat, real deal. Remember to keep looking for blazes.
I love the green eyed spiders at night (NM). I hiked with a UV lamp once and it was fun to see the various glowing
critters. I have seen scorpions that glow in dark. Not pretty though. Really don't like them but they didn't chase us. :LOL
Love your vids of the night sky. Esp the heart of the Milky Way and what I believe were meteors. Can't see that stuff during the day. Mixing things up (day v night hikes) sounds healthy. Not a through hiker, but can relate to a bit of solitude on a popular through hike. You have such perspective re: your journeys. Thx!
I hiked/climbed Mt Shasta and summited at 2:30 am. Incredible night sky full of stars at over 14,000 ft. The late evening start afforded a view of Shasta’s shadow cast on the atmosphere above the distant east horizon - something I had never even heard of.
All the cool kids hike at night... jussayin
I've never night hiked, I'm in Colorado and I've had two run ins with Bears , I know I said bear fear but it does seem they are more active at night as well as cats.
What can I do, or is this even a realistic fear. I mostly solo or have 1 hiking buddy.
I just got back from hiking 100 miles on the Sheltowee Trace, I hiked on NYE till midnight and it was glorious! I forded rivers and climbed a piece of waterfall and even made summit on a bald. It was rad!
I used to occasionally "day-hike" at night when I lived in Israel. The desert is beautiful at night. It makes you think that it might be like being on the moon. Even with a half moon, no flashlight or headlamp is needed. One of my friends came to visit from the US and I took him on a night hike. This particular friend has traveled all over the world for the past 20 years or so. Every single time I talk to him, he mentions how he will never forget our night hike and thanks me for taking him. FWIW, we were right outside Jericho, and once we got up the hill a bit, we could see the Dead Sea.
And hey, what accent are y'all talkin' about? She sounds just like me and my freyunds.
In Colorado some hiking groups will do night hikes especially we have several mesas with great views of the city at night...and we hiked during the Eclipse in Jan 2019
There is a part of Alabama that's not "ruralish"? I live in downtown Wichita, and I doubt I am ever more than 10" away from a field full of cows. And I would have guessed Alabama is much the same.