Tips For Preventing Blisters While Hiking

When you go hiking, 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 end up developing a blister on your foot, you can be in a very tough 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 go hiking, you will want to make sure you know how to prevent blisters so that you do not have to deal with them at all!

Dr Scholls blister defense kit!

The thing most likely to cause you to get blisters is wearing 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! If you want to break in your hiking shoes before you hit the trail, you can do so 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 before you slip into 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 taking the time to soak the foot in cold water and then to let the foot get 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; when you do this, you will protect your feet from getting blistered as you hike throughout the day.