Low Impact Hiking Defined

Series Summary

Hiking is an amazing experience and a great hobby that requires varying degrees of technical skill depending on where you are hiking. However there are necessary skills for any type of hiking that should be learned in order to preserve wilderness lands. Low impact hiking refers to hiking that disturbs the wilderness very little and therefore ensures the preservation of wilderness lands. Check out this video series to see how you can help make sure that the wilderness lands remain pristine and available for others to enjoy. Our expert will show you low impact hiking tips and techniques, for free, online.

In this free low impact hiking video series, learn from expert hiker Karl Jensen how to hike without destroying or harming the environment which you enjoy on your trek. Karl will tell you what low impact hiking is, how to be courteous when hiking, and where is a good place to go hiking. He will teach you low impact hiking techniques such as how to dispose of human waste while hiking, how to leave no trace when hiking, how to repair trail damage when hiking, how to preserve wildlife while hiking, and how to dispose of trash when hiking.

Video Transcript

"Hi, today I'm going to talk to you about what is low impact hiking. So what is it exactly? Well it is pretty much what it sounds like, you want to impact the environment as little as possible. So noticing little things like; a little bit of erosion there, you know, there is wildlife on the side of the trails here, you have these bushes and they create a very balanced ecosystem for everything that lives here and we need to take care of that because we are just guest in the woods and we don't really own them. So we need to make sure that we take good care of the trails so that everyone could enjoy the same experience as when you first walked through it. So things like picking up trash, staying on the trail, things like that will keep it preserved and nice for not only the animals to live in it, but it will keep the beauty preserved as well for everyone else who comes through next. Also a very important part of low impact hiking, is you want to make sure when hanging out with your friends that they also follow the same, the same like code that you do, like making sure that you keep everything nice and preserved so not only they can enjoy it but other people too."