How to Stay Healthy for a Week of Serious Hikes

Walking in advance as much as you can is probably the best thing you can do. I'm never going to be a champion's kind of physical specimen, but I just don't want to have a silly little tweak in my knee or a pull something in my ankle. You got to use those joints. The most important tip I got from you I got to say was stretch. Because I'm in my 60s and I hiked up to base camp on Mount Rainier. I literally could not get out of the hotel bed the next morning because I didn't stretch. Never had a single problem because I stretched. They end up doing more and more of these hikes. It does change