10 Different Types of Hiking

Did you know there are multiple different hiking types? I always thought that if someone asked me to go for a walk it wouldn’t last more than an hour or two but if they said let’s go for a hike, it would be as long as a whole day.

Little did I know, there are actually lots of different types of hiking and each one describes the hike in a different way in terms of length, distance, and more.

Join me as I explain the main 10 different types of hiking so that you can understand them and play your hikes based on types and progress from one to the next.

Thru-Hiking

Image courtesy of Ken Lund

Thru-hiking is the most challenging form of hiking as to successfully complete a thru-hike can take up to 2 years, depending on t