Rules For Low-Impact Hiking

November 12th, 2012 by rauth

You want to go for a hike, but you don’t want to mess up the ecosystem?

Protect the ecosystem by staying on designated hiking trails.

Here are five essential rules for low-impact hiking, from the folks at www.matadornetwork.com:

1. Stay on the trail

2. Camp in designated areas

3. Don’t build campfires

4. Pack out your trash

5. Don’t wash dishes in streams

For the full blog post, click here.