BACKGROUND There is little data on hiking patterns in national parks to support hiking behavior as a vehicle to meet the joint YMCA, CDC, and National Park Service initiatives to encourage physical activity through public land use. METHODS The YMCA of the Rockies hiking program provided data from Hike Report forms completed after 343 supervised hikes for one summer season in Rocky Mountain Na...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of high-cuff hiking boots on gait kinematics and lower extremity muscle activities compared with standard trekking shoes. 16 participants walked on a treadmill at 0°and 12° inclination uphill with both, a high-cuff hiking boot and a standard trekking shoe. Kinematics was collected with a 12 camera IR system. The activities of the mm. tib. ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate why blood lactate after prolonged quadriceps contraction during hiking is only marginally increased. Eight sailors performed five 3-min hiking bouts interspersed with 5-s recovery periods. Whole body oxygen uptake, heart rate and lactate were recorded, along with continuous-wave near-infrared spectroscopy measures of quadriceps oxygenation. The ti...

Objective To analyse the circumstances of fatal and non-fatal mountain hiking accidents caused by falls. Methods The study was designed as a retrospective analysis. Mountain hiking accidents caused by falls were documented during a 9-year period (2006-2014). After screening of all data for potential exclusion criteria the final sample size of 5368 accidents and 5665 victims was included into ...

Energy consumption is an important factor to be considered in designing algorithms for ad hoc wireless networks, where wireless nodes are assumed in general to be battery powered. The Hitch-hiking model introduced recently in [1] takes advantage of the physical layer design that facilitates combining of partial signals containing the same information in order to decode the complete message. Aga...

In early October of 2010, R (lead author) arrived in a parking lot at 6:30 am for a hike in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Canada to meet the group of middle-aged and older adult hiking enthusiasts he had been hiking with once a week since August. On this outing, R was introduced to a new hiking group member, Chloé1. Her story touched on common themes identified in this ethnographic study ...

Many recent trail degradation problems have been attributed to mountain biking because of its alleged capacity to do more damage than other activities, particularly hiking. This study compared the effects of experimentally applied mountain biking and hiking on the understory vegetation and soil of a deciduous forest. Five different intensities of biking and hiking (i.e., 0, 25, 75, 200 and 500 ...

There is a dearth of structured, organized photographical information of hiking trails and nature in general. Although people frequently photograph these locations and some efforts have been conducted to create virtual walk-throughs of select locations using specialized equipment (Stranger 2013; Olanoff 2013), the information is largely scattered across different social networks and other websi...