{"id":390010,"date":"2022-04-11T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T13:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=390010"},"modified":"2022-04-11T10:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:23:23","slug":"theories-on-why-hiking-is-so-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/11\/theories-on-why-hiking-is-so-great\/","title":{"rendered":"THEORIES ON WHY HIKING IS SO GREAT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hiking with Vibram 5 Fingers (EL-X) and hiking with Seneca (baby front carrier, ergo baby carrier) and backpack is sublime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other day I went hiking with Cindy (a pretty big loop, around 2 hours each way, 4 hours in total), I think it was a total of 10 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiking was an insanely great experience. Why? Some theories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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1. Visual<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first theory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiking is great because of the visual experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For example, as a photographer\/visual artist, I think I need stronger visual stimuli. I often get this from downtown areas, being in the city, seeing tons of people, watching cinema, etc \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but hiking and being outdoors seems to be supreme. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depth. When you’re hiking with different elevation (variety), you can see insanely far (exercise your depth perception).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, infinite variety. There is more variation, objects, plants, and a variety of shapes, growth patterns, fractal patterns, and unexpected patterns when you’re out hiking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Randomness in environment, elevation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Also a big thing — <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you’re in the city, you are stuck on totally flat surfaces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I realize I hate totally flat surfaces. When you’re hiking, each step is different and random. And this is better for our feet, tendons, heels, thighs, shoulders, back, neck, jaw, joints, hips, etc. I actually thought, hiking might benefit *everyone*, even powerlifters<\/a> (who always seek to strengthen their tendons, muscles, and connective tissue).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Hiking is the great secret for ‘happiness’, health, or overall wellness?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have a theory that hiking, being outdoors, sleep, physical exercise might be *MORE IMPORTANT* than food. I first came upon this thought from reading Nassim Taleb (Antifragile) on his theory that walking might be as important as sleep, and other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems in modern times, we are trying to optimize ourselves from *NOT* walking, being outdoors, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. High up, looking down, and low down, looking up?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

‘Views’ are overrated. If you simply drive to the top of a mountain, and look down, there is no joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Why do we have two eyes? Why are we bipeds?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of the theories on why we have two eyes (binocular vision, depth perception) is to coordinate our biped (walking on two legs) movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically, I get *MORE* energy when I am out hiking (rigorous, up and down uneven terrain) and in the direct sun outdoors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we no longer need to use our eyes, or traverse difficult terrain, what is the use of our bodies and eyes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hiking with Vibram 5 Fingers (EL-X) and hiking with Seneca (baby front carrier, ergo baby carrier) and backpack is sublime. The other day I went hiking with Cindy (a pretty big loop, around 2 \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":390157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/hiking-cindy-project.jpeg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390010"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390168,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390010\/revisions\/390168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}