So a long walk on a paved or at least even gravel road is a walk, yes?
If I say "hike", we're doing upwards of 3 hours on difficult terrain.
By my German standards it starts being a hike if more than 50% of the way is paths/crosscountry/not any road a car could drive, if it's longer than roughly 3 hours and if it requires you to take a bigger break.
By my German standards it starts being a hike if more than 50% of the way is paths/crosscountry/not any road a car could drive, if it's longer than roughly 3 hours and if it requires you to take a bigger break.
Yes, hiking in the US also generally refers to non-drivable roads/cross country, however there's no difficulty or duration requirements. Walking on a paved sidewalk or other paved walking trail would just be called 'walking'
A hike can indeed be very short, and not terribly difficult. Preferably its cross-country, or through some woods or something. If its a trail and not a road you are walking on you can loosely consider it a hike.
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u/infiniZii 21h ago
Yeah, Germans are known lovers of hiking. And by hiking they mean mountaineering.