Finding Day Hiking Areas

Video Transcript

So today we're going to talk about selecting a day hike. There are a lot of different things that you can do when you prepare for a day hike. Regardless of where you live your state website is going to probably have the information you need in order to select a hike. Here in Florida we have several different places close by to the Tampa Bay area, which is where we are today, and you can basically determine whether or not you want a strenuous hike, an easy hike, how much gear you want to take, that sort of thing. So what we're going to do is go through several different items that you would want to bring on a hike, depending on the type of hike that you want to take. So again, in determining what type of hike you want to take is going to determine what kind of gear you want to take in order to accomplish that.