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fitness

Climb Some Stairs This Weekend

June 10, 2010

For those who like their hiking a bit more urban … and involving more staircases, then you’ll be happy to know that the team behind the Big Parade is back again, and gearing up for a 2-day, 35 mile walk through Los Angeles, including 101 public staircases. The event kicks off Friday morning with an [...]

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Thriv Performance Shirts

October 27, 2009

The guys at Thriv sent me an email a few weeks back, asking me if I’d be interested in testing out a sample of one of their new athletic shirts. Unlike most athletic wear, which is either made of synthetic fiber (or, sometimes, very old and sweatsoaked cotton), the Thriv line is mostly bamboo fiber, [...]

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The Importance of Hiking Outdoors

August 7, 2009

Much has been written about the physical and psychological benefits of exercise in general and – more recently – hiking, specifically. While indoor exercise is definitely better than no exercise at all, we hikers have one more distinct advantage over our wall-bound brethren – there doesn’t appear to be any video of hikers approaching the [...]

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The Big Parade – A Two-Day Hike in L.A.

July 7, 2009

When I first started Modern Hiker, the primary hiking/blogging joke I heard (yes, there’s at least one) was that I should devote a section of the site for walks around the urban areas of L.A. Hilarious, right? After a while, I actually came around to like the idea – there’s a lot of history buried [...]

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100 Hikes

May 19, 2009

At the beginning of the month, a man named Kolby decided he would get into shape by challenging himself to finish 100 hikes by January 1, 2010. And lucky for us, he’ll be doing most of his hundred hikes right here in Southern California, and keeping track of his trails on his new blog, 100 [...]

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Hiking Is The Best Exercise EVAR!!!!1111!

March 25, 2009

Let’s just go ahead and get it over with — stop all the studies, research, and questionnaires. Let’s all just agree that hiking is the absolute, hands-down, best damn exercise around. Here’s what we know already. Hiking makes you smarter. Hiking has a meditative effect. Running (and presumably, hiking quickly) reduces your mortality rate. Heck, [...]

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Biking To Work Gets You Cash

March 23, 2009

I’ll be moving again in about a month, which means I’m going back to biking to work instead of walking. I already knew I could get some refunded cash for not having to use my company’s parking space, but Backpacker just informed me that bikers can also get some cold, hard cash for biking to [...]

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Love from Pro Athletes

December 21, 2008

Apparently, casual hikers and armchair outdoorsmen aren’t the only folks who check out Modern Hiker for some good trails near Los Angeles — we get our share of pro-athletes, too! Last week, pro Triathlete Jessi Stensland found my site while looking for a new outdoor endurance sport to fool around with, and something about my [...]

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