Comfort in wild environments.

To enjoy your trekkings, you do not need a lot of technical and expensive equipment; in any case, you need to know how to use it to get around to find the way to keep you as comfortable as possible. Also, you need to know how far your equipment will be able to provide you comfort and of course which are your limitations.

The professional equipment allows you to be comfortable in tougher conditions than modest stuff but, I would like to make clear that the best material will not provide comfort if it is not chosen, used and adjusted well.

I spent many years investigating which could be the possible ways to have a good level of comfort in the wilderness. I have made a lot of tests, and all of them made me reach the following conclusions:

-To be comfortable should matters greatly to everyone who finds himself in it.

-No matter if you go to the wilderness to have a relaxing experience or you are there trying to survive… Everything you can do that provides you an extra point of comfort will help you!

-To be comfortable is one of most important and complex topic regarding with outdoor activities. We will never know enough about it when will be in danger or extreme situations but, maybe, we will be capable of solving them; in any case, we will know enough to be comfortable in 98% of cases.

A lot of people often just decide they do not like trekking or mountaineering after their first experiences. In most of the cases, they think so because they did not have a good and pleasant experience at heart, it makes me sad because is in the wilderness where I have discovered some of the biggest treasures in the world.

Why did they not have a good experience? There are several reasons. I would like that few of them (the followings) could be understood at least. In any case, most of them are relative to the lack of comfort.

Some reasons are:

1. They did not feel they do anything well.
2. The route was too hard or painful for them.
3. They were not used to be in the wilderness.
4. The activity lasted too long.
5. They suffered, they had aches, they were exhausted.

I will explain this points carefully in the next post, but first, I think it is a good idea that you spend a couple of minutes reflecting on it.

Comfort, safety and pleasant experiences in wild environments go hand in hand. This subject is too important to me that I decided that the first course I was going to design should be a specific course that delves into it.

I would like to give you the following advice:

-Make sure your comfort and safety depend more on you and less on environmental conditions.

-Know well what is “the comfort area” of your equipment keeping in mind your physical condition, your knowledge, and your companions.

-Try to do not go alone in wild environments, get informed about meteorology prediction, make sure your mobile phone is charged and try to be foresighted.

As long as you bear this points in mind and apply the commonsense, your probabilities of having a bad experience or suffering an accident will be low, or at least, you will be more trained if an unfortunate accident takes place.

Of course, as a mountain guide, I just can say that to hire a good mountain guide to take an excursion or join in mountaineering courses given by professional mountain guides are always excellent ideas.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this post! I will type more of them soon, and we will live many adventures together!

 

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EDGAR NORTH