20 Thru Hiking Tips in 6 Minutes for Your FIRST Thru Hike

Great advice

I do a knont lacing shoes in the back they get the back part tighter to the talon i fing it better

Those bottrles aren reusable they taste like plastic. : (

Wet socks inside a sleeping bag in cold temps is not a good plan.

Part 2 please!!! terrific tips1! LOVE the shoe lacing techniques for loose ankle and need loose toe box!

Some great tips, apart from the Awful nutrition tips(sorry, but unsaturated fats, soy, peanut butter, fruit, veg, quinoa and that couscous garbage🤮)..but everything else was a good call. Defo do a part 2!👍

Definitely eat meat. More nutritional than anything you listed. There's a reason our ancestors celebrated with meat.

Great video's we'll done hope I could get them to your quality feel free to have a look any advice greatly appreciated

Thank you for the tips.
Two comments:
Sleeping pad. I guess the foam pad is ok for you. But when you get over 40-50 years you'll be wrecked after each night.
Dehydrated meals are expensive, but also much more exiting than your alternatives. Yes, you'll get what you need but I would be depressed eating your meals ...

Nice tips, thank you. As a head's up, quinoa in English is pronounced Keen-wah.

Never heard of a surgeon knot. But good tip I’ve always done exactly that with all my boots but with a square knot half way up or wherever

For women with any kind of hips and curves, a sleeping pad is definitely not enough, it will ruin your back and hurt your hips as soon as you do any side sleeping. Unless you would be on thick moss or leaves underneath, that helps a lot. It's only for straight bodies. There are enough summer air beds that are ultra light, and then bring a little sitting pad for outside and for kneeling.

My doctor told to stop eating soy :(

That was helpful. Thank you

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Disagree about foam mats. They're hard.
Instead, infatable mats are much more comfortable to lie on, and the importance of a comfortable sleep can not be overstated.

Great video. What’s the non inflatable mattress?

Stopped using waffle mats after one season, due to the, for me often occurring, condensation between mat and sleeping bag. Using a 14mm light "old school" evazote. 190x60x1,4 - 460g and soft. Had it for 20yrs. Winter time it's two mats. Comfy as the princess without the pea

Soy is poison to men AND women. Not a food.

After years of back country camping, and trying lots of fancy sleeping pads, I went back to the old fashioned plastic inflatable one. Nice and thick providing good insulation and padding for hips. You can put it directly on snow and stay warm. In summer, it also makes a fun raft for floating around a lake. They are also very cheap compared to the fancy ones.

Yes make another video. Your tips are really good.

1. I never take the syringe on a trip, because you can use it for several weeks with no need for backflushing.
2. You can also just put damp clothing in the lower area of your sleeping bag. Works great.
3. True. Always check the weather forecast too and never try to outhike a thunderstorm in the moutains.
8. I also like to do that. But dried fruits also contain a lot of vitamins, fibers etc., which is nice when you don't have any option to buy groceries for a longer period.
12. I highly agree with that. Also foampads are pretty much indestructable, while inflatables are the most sensitive part of your gear. If you sleep well on a thin foam pad is a matter of personal fitness though.
19. These tips are for desperate situations. I'd rather recommend to have good well fitting shoes. Also some blister plaster (helps not only with blisters, but also with rubbing, pressure points etc.) If you need these weird laycing techniques you probably should change your shoes asap.

Another set of good tips - I take noodles, pasta and those little dehydrated risotto packs, works really well, you can get small pots of sauce which are great (but more weight), but olive oil is amazing as you can use it for cooking, butter subsitute and seasoning, and I always take salt and pepper. I need to take nuts.

I found that kabanos - Polish travel sausage - or saucisson sec, variations on what some people call 'summer sausage' last ages even in heat and taste good...I guess peperoni would be the same, and I take home-made jerky too as you can cook with it. Dry chorizo is also good, the stuff that's stored outside the fridge, whereas the sliced/refirgerated chorizo just dumps the oil, and goes weird. Also oddly, best cheese is Leerdammer light, it seems to not go off for many days.

But I agree, I avoid a lot of those chocolate bars, because I don't think junk food helps in the end. It's like the wrong sort of protein and calories, will make you more tired/sugar highs and lows, and probably less efficient.

I take loads of zip locks, and clips. You always need to seal or clip something, food, electronics, i use them and trash bags instead of expensive dry bags.

I don't trust the opinion of someone who buys trekking poles and buys ultra light gear.

Awesome tips.

You're completely wrong with using a foam pad instead of a lightweight inflatable pad. The foam weighs MORE than a comparable R value UL pad and rocks are felt when using a thin foam pad. I've tried them a couple times based on recommendations but they are awful to sleep on. Unless maybe you live where the ground is all grassy.

Masterclass!

Then 3 years later he uses inflatable sleeping pad in all his hikes 😂😂😂

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Yes please!

Your not anything even close to a pro

GREAT ! aboniert !

These are solid tips for thru hikers. Wombie

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Nice but soy is for soy boys

Excellent!

Amazing tent colors!

Excellent tips, thank you!

Soy is worst thing a man can eat, because you won't be a man for very long. (Oestrogen????)

Don't use a heavy and expensive osprey dry sack, use a nyloflume bag. One quarter the weight and way cheaper to replace. Also easier to repair if there is an issue. For me zero reason to ever leave my inflatable pad even in summer, it is barely heavier than my closed cell foam one, much more low profile, far for more comfortable, and I just use the foam pad from my backstay in my pack for sitting and chilling along trail.

Yea you should get your Test levels checked.

nice tips especially about socks, do you have any tips about shoes?

People hike without bringing a firearm?

"textured soy..." LoL! All I need to know from you...

Protips!

It's the 21st century and we're still talking about "unsaturated" fat? Give me a break. And if you're going to recommend peanut butter, you should point out that there's real peanut butter (just ground peanuts) and then the junk made with things like....hydrogenated cottonseed oil. Or hydrogenated anything. That's the real problem. Too much refined oil with excess omega-6 PUFA is the next problem. One problem we're not facing is too much "saturated" fat. Butter and coconut oil are fine.

Also, I'm glad someone's speaking out against the junk food culture in hiking,and yes protein is important, but texturized soy? No!

the soy is a great food idea! I can't believe I've never thought of that...(fresh) Meat is only viable on the first couple days in the wild (except winter) so that's really good :) thanks