Preventing Blisters While Hiking

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Whenever you plan to take a hiking adventure, your plan is likely to be walking a great distance - enjoying nature and enjoying the opportunity to get a bit of exercise. But if you wind up developing a foot blister, you can be in a difficult position, as you might be several miles from your car without any way to get back to it except to walk - on that painful blister! When you take a hiking journey of your own, you will want to prevent blisters before they start so that you do not have to deal with them!

Dr Scholls blister defense kit!

The thing that is more likely to give you blisters on your feet than anything else is hiking in shoes that are not broken in; if you have a new pair of hiking shoes, it can take 10 or 12 hikes to get the shoes broken in, but you will not want 10 or 12 instances of blistered feet in order to allow this to happen! The best way to break in your hiking shoes before going out on the trails with them is by walking around your house in them after work - wearing the same socks you would wear with them while hiking as well!

If you know where you tend to get blisters on your foot, you can also protect yourself by wrapping that area (as well as the areas around it) in athletic tape in the morning - before you even slip on the socks and shoes you will be wearing for the hike! And even if you do not wrap your foot before you head out - and if you start to develop a blister during your hike - you can protect yourself from the blister worsening by wrapping the problem area, or by soaking your foot in cold water and getting it some air.

Finally, you should keep baby powder in your pack, and if you are going on a multi-day hike, you should put baby powder in your socks before you put them on your feet, and in this way your feet can feel great as you hike throughout the day!