Walking "We are born to walk this Earth".  The Benefits of Walking.

• Walking is easy and fundamental.
• Walking is (or should be) the foundation of any fitness, exercise or weight loss program.
• Physiologically - there is no single exercise better for man or animal than walking.
• Walking Exercise is overwhelmingly recognized, recommended and prescribed by doctors, cardiologists, family physicians and other health care professionals.
• Try walking for 30 minutes.  Start slow.  Warm up gradually.  Breathe.  You will feel better, more alert have & have more energy!  NOTE: After 30 minutes of easy walking - if you experience foot pain, ankle pain, heel pain, hip or lower back pain - you need correct shoes or boots!  If pain is moderate to severe - stop, don't ignore it, take note of symptoms, see your doctor. 

Hiking "Hiking isn't complicated!"  The Benefits of Hiking.

• Hiking - is easy, rewarding & great family fun!
• Hiking - is "the Green" way to out door recreation!
• Hiking - is walking-but with purpose & motivation!
• Hiking - combines good walking exercise with nature and the Great Outdoors!
• Hiking - no other outdoor sport, exercise or recreation is more accessible to more people of all ages and abilities as hiking!
• Hiking - hobby, exercise, fresh air, natural science, bird watching, sight seeing, history, picnic, family fun - lifetime physical fitness & activity!
• Hiking - the enjoyable sensible lifelong healthy passion.
• Carefully Plan & Prepare a 1 to 2 hour hike - or roughly 1 to 2 miles.  Start slow.  Go slow.  Walk with slow & deliberate steps.  Exercise all your senses.  Stay hydrated.  Evaluate.  Begin plannin & preparing your next hike.  NOTE: If your feet hurt - you need proper footwear.  Hint: Tennis shoes are not proper footwear!

Fitness: "Sustainable lifetime fitness is the reward of the walker & the hiker".  Benefits: Progressive Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health & Fitness.

Physical Fitness

• Aerobic Walking Exercise: An immediate benefit.
• Improved Balance, Coordination, Strength & Confidence.
• Easy Natural Progession:
• Easy to negotiate sidewalk & urban walking path.
• Scenic, easy going hiking trails.
• Uncrowded woods and open fields.
• Natural Playgrounds - Gently uneven terrain.  Challenging topography.  Steep hills & grades.  Logs and low branches.  Rocks and boulders.  Terrain to match all ages and abilities!
• Renew, Restore and Test your natural gifts of mobility!

Mental Fitness & Exercise: "A Coffee Ridge Hike Exercises your Brain & your Senses"

Brain:

• Mental Exercise: Planning, Preparation & Considerations: Terrain, Weather, Time, Distance & Goals.

Senses: 

The Five Senses & The Outdoor Experience.  What is the Outdoor Experience?  The Out door Experience is a level of awareness.  An awareness anyone anywhere can readily achieve and enjoy.  Whether you live in the city.  The suburb.  Or further out in the country - use your senses, observe, heighten your awarness.  And we guarantee in 30 seconds or less - you will have some kind of an Outdoor Experience!

• Sight: the Awesome Colorful Beauty and Diversity of Nature!
• Sound / Hearing: Nature Sounds, bird songs, frogs peepers insect wings, wind leaves rain babbling brook, distant thunder, ... .
• Smell / Scent: Natural woody piney earthy rain fresh clean air!
• Touch / Feel / Sensation: warm summer sun, cold crisp refreshing winter air, gentle breeze / powerful wind gust, hot baking sand, slippery sticky mud / clay, rocks rock crystal shapes, fossil forms arrowheads, ice cold spring water ... .
• Taste: wild blackberry, blueberry, raspberry, sweet clover, watercress, acorns ... .
• Sharpen your Conscious Mind: Safe, Aware Hiking!
• Develope your Subconscious Mind: the Sixth Sense - a level of awareness the careful observer and the experienced hunter attains!

Siritual Fitness & Health: "The True Benefits of Hiking"  Centered.  Balanced.  Down to Earth.

Nature "Where you find the True Benefits of Hiking"

Nature & Hiking  will always remind you - the aware hiker:

• Who you are.
• What you are.
• Where you are.