Hiking, walking, trekking, tramping, rambling, ambling, backpacking, bushwalking, bimbling… there’s a rich variety of verbs to describe the act of travelling by foot on trails and paths, purely for recreational enjoyment – which is unsurprising, since it’s the most widely participated-in outdoor pursuit on the planet.
Each of those words means slightly different things to different people, and many are geographically specific, but no matter where in the world you are, wild walking is typically the first adventure activity any of us experience, and the one we keep doing for the entirety of our outdoor-active lives.
