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==Definition==
*1: a usually long walk especially for [[pleasure]] or [[exercise]]
*2: a usually sudden increase in the [[cost]], level, or amount of something
==Description==
'''Hiking''' is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on [[trails]] (footpaths), in the [[countryside]], while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly [[urban]] walks. On the other hand, in the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, the term walking is acceptable to describe all forms of walking, whether it is a walk in the park or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpacking_(wilderness) backpacking] in the Alps. The word hiking is also often used in the UK, along with rambling (a slightly old-fashioned term), hillwalking, and fell walking (a term mostly used for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillwalking hillwalking] in northern England). In New Zealand a long, vigorous walk or hike is called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramping_in_New_Zealand tramping]. It is a popular activity with numerous hiking organizations worldwide, and studies suggest that all forms of walking have health benefits.
The idea of taking a walk in the countryside for [[pleasure]] developed in the 18th-century, and arose because of changing attitudes to the landscape and nature, associated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism Romantic movement]. In earlier times walking generally indicated [[poverty]] and was also associated with [[vagrancy]].
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_West_(clergyman) Thomas West], an English clergyman, popularized the idea of walking for pleasure in his guide to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_District Lake District] of 1778. In the introduction he wrote that he aimed
<blockquote>to encourage the taste of visiting the lakes by furnishing the traveller with a Guide; and for that purpose, the writer has here collected and laid before him, all the select stations and points of view, noticed by those authors who have last made the tour of the lakes, verified by his own repeated observations.</blockquote>
An early example of an interest in hiking in the United States, is Abel Crawford and his son Ethan's clearing of a trail to the summit of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington,_New_Hampshire Mount Washington, New Hampshire] in 1819. This 8.5 mile path is the oldest continually used hiking trail in the United States. The influence of British and European Romanticism reached North America through the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalist_movement transcendentalist movement], and both [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson] (1803–82) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau Henry David Thoreau] (1817-62) were important influences on the outdoors movement in North America. Thoreau's writing on nature and on walking include the posthumously published "Walking" (1862).
Frequently nowadays long distance hikes (walking tours) are undertaken along long distance paths, including the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trails National Trails] in England and Wales, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trail_System National Trail System] in the USA and The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Randonn%C3%A9e Grande Randonnée] (France), Grote Routepaden, or Lange-afstand-wandelpaden (Holland), Grande Rota (Portugal), Gran Recorrido (Spain) is a network of long-distance footpaths in Europe, mostly in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. There are extensive networks in other European countries of long distance trails, as well as in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Nepal, and to a lesser extent other Asiatic countries, like Turkey, Israel, and Jordan. In the Alps of Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, France, and Italy walking tours are often made from 'hut-to-hut', using an extensive system of mountain huts.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiking]
[[Category: General Reference]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 1865]
==Definition==
*1: a usually long walk especially for [[pleasure]] or [[exercise]]
*2: a usually sudden increase in the [[cost]], level, or amount of something
==Description==
'''Hiking''' is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on [[trails]] (footpaths), in the [[countryside]], while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly [[urban]] walks. On the other hand, in the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, the term walking is acceptable to describe all forms of walking, whether it is a walk in the park or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpacking_(wilderness) backpacking] in the Alps. The word hiking is also often used in the UK, along with rambling (a slightly old-fashioned term), hillwalking, and fell walking (a term mostly used for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillwalking hillwalking] in northern England). In New Zealand a long, vigorous walk or hike is called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramping_in_New_Zealand tramping]. It is a popular activity with numerous hiking organizations worldwide, and studies suggest that all forms of walking have health benefits.
The idea of taking a walk in the countryside for [[pleasure]] developed in the 18th-century, and arose because of changing attitudes to the landscape and nature, associated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism Romantic movement]. In earlier times walking generally indicated [[poverty]] and was also associated with [[vagrancy]].
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_West_(clergyman) Thomas West], an English clergyman, popularized the idea of walking for pleasure in his guide to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_District Lake District] of 1778. In the introduction he wrote that he aimed
<blockquote>to encourage the taste of visiting the lakes by furnishing the traveller with a Guide; and for that purpose, the writer has here collected and laid before him, all the select stations and points of view, noticed by those authors who have last made the tour of the lakes, verified by his own repeated observations.</blockquote>
An early example of an interest in hiking in the United States, is Abel Crawford and his son Ethan's clearing of a trail to the summit of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington,_New_Hampshire Mount Washington, New Hampshire] in 1819. This 8.5 mile path is the oldest continually used hiking trail in the United States. The influence of British and European Romanticism reached North America through the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalist_movement transcendentalist movement], and both [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson] (1803–82) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau Henry David Thoreau] (1817-62) were important influences on the outdoors movement in North America. Thoreau's writing on nature and on walking include the posthumously published "Walking" (1862).
Frequently nowadays long distance hikes (walking tours) are undertaken along long distance paths, including the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trails National Trails] in England and Wales, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trail_System National Trail System] in the USA and The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Randonn%C3%A9e Grande Randonnée] (France), Grote Routepaden, or Lange-afstand-wandelpaden (Holland), Grande Rota (Portugal), Gran Recorrido (Spain) is a network of long-distance footpaths in Europe, mostly in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. There are extensive networks in other European countries of long distance trails, as well as in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Nepal, and to a lesser extent other Asiatic countries, like Turkey, Israel, and Jordan. In the Alps of Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, France, and Italy walking tours are often made from 'hut-to-hut', using an extensive system of mountain huts.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiking]
[[Category: General Reference]]
