An important part of taking good care of your body is that you make sure you eat right, and hiking is a great way for you to keep your body in good shape – but many people who go hiking fail to draw the correlation between these two things, realizing that eating healthy while you hike is also important. Food, of course, is the main place where your body gets its energy, and when you are exerting yourself all day long, you will want to also be replenishing by eating the right foods; here are a few foods for you to consider when you are going hiking, as all of these will be easy to bring with you and will give you the energy you need.

Fruit: When it comes to eating healthy, not much beats fruit, and it is also great for giving your body energy; when it comes to eating fruit while hiking, you can go with fresh fruit such as bananas or oranges, or you can go with dried fruit, which is lightweight and easy to carry around with you, while still giving you all the health benefits of regular fruit.

Granola: Another thing that will help you have energy as you hike is granola (and granola bars), as granola is oat-based, and oats will do a lot to keep your body going; you can purchase granola at the grocery store, or you can make your own granola using oats and a variety of ingredients.

Trail mix: The calories that you will find in a trail mix that includes nuts and chocolate will give you a lightweight snack that provides a lot of energy – and if you can find a trail mix that also has dried fruit in it (or even granola in it!), you will be in even better shape.

Among these options, it should be easy to find one that works for you, and this will enable you to not only treat your body right with a hike, but to do so while also giving your body the healthy energy it needs.

Whenever you plan to take a hiking adventure, your plan is likely to be walking a great distance – enjoying nature and enjoying the opportunity to get a bit of exercise. But if you wind up developing a foot blister, you can be in a difficult position, as you might be several miles from your car without any way to get back to it except to walk – on that painful blister! When you go hiking, you will want to make sure you know how to prevent blisters so that you do not have to deal with them at all!

Dr Scholls blister defense kit!

The thing most likely to cause you to get blisters is wearing shoes that are not broken in; if you have a new pair of hiking shoes, it can take 10 or 12 hikes to get the shoes broken in, but you will not want 10 or 12 instances of blistered feet in order to allow this to happen! If you want to break in your hiking shoes before you hit the trail, you can do so by walking around your house in them after work – wearing the same socks you would wear with them while hiking as well!

If you know where you tend to get blisters on your foot, you can also protect yourself by wrapping that area (as well as the areas around it) in athletic tape before you slip into the socks and shoes you will be wearing for the hike. And even if you do not wrap your foot before you head out – and if you start to develop a blister during your hike – you can protect yourself from the blister worsening by wrapping the problem area, or by giving the foot a break, soaking it in cold water (if you can find some), and giving the foot some air.

Finally, you should keep baby powder in your pack, and if you are going on a multi-day hike, you should put baby powder in your socks before you put them on your feet, and this will keep your feet in good shape as you hike throughout the day.