Women hiking alone

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Inspired by another thread, I'd love to hear stories about women who enjoy hiking/ long walks alone. It's something I used to do before I got into running. I was a member of a hiking club at one stage but I found the constant chat and big groups to be draining and would love some inspiration from other women who also prefer doing this alone.

I'm glad BitchIAmFromChicago has mentioned Koomot. It is a really good app.
I would also recommend AllTrails. I have paid up for 3 years and love it and my friend is happy with the free version.
Ine other app I'd recommend us FatMap. Its absolutely brilliant and shows the hills and mountains in 3 d.

I do. Love it. Have done since I was a teenager.

What a lovely, inspirational thread.
I run and cycle alone but rarely have enough time to myself with access to the car to go for walks.

OS maps online is one I use for planning routes

Lovely thread, exactly what I needed to see today!

I’ve always been happy to walk, hike and trail run alone, and go out most days for about 1 1/2 -2 hours, with dogs. My favourite walks are in the woods, as being alone and moving under my own steam through trees is the surest way I’ve found to dissolve all my problems. I go into the woods with problems, and I come out with solutions.

I’ve travelled and walked alone all over the place- deserts, mountains, coasts- and only got myself in bother a couple of times, and only through bad planning or sloppiness. I got caught out in Bali by not realising when it would get dark, and had to flail back along a beach and coast path in the pitch black with no torch and when no one knew where I was. And I got lost and fell in a river in New Zealand, but again, my own fault as I’d misread the map and refused to acknowledge it for far too long, preferring instead to insist that if I pushed on, the path would reappear

Lots of inspiring posts!

Have only hiked alone in easy, v popular areas, would be fearful, primarily of physical injury or getting lost - am crap at navigation.

sometimes run in quiet places and am fearful of attack by a man, although know the odds are low, there have been a number of sexual assaults in my area. So I head for places there’re people, eg dog walkers.

So I was off work today and did a 3.5 hour hike alone, I'm delighted with myself. As I mentioned previously, I did hike with a club at one stage, but today I loved the silence/ listened to a podcast, didn't miss the constant chatter at all! I'm planning my next one already.

Well done. How are your navigation skills? If anything less than good it's worth doing a course when starting to walk on your own. Our local ranger service runs them.