Preventing Blisters While Hiking

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If you are going to be taking a hiking trip, 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 run into the unfortunate problem of a blister on the 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 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!

Wearing shoes that are not broken in are more likely to give you blisters than anything else; 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! You can break in hiking shoes before you take them out onto the trail 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 put your shoes and socks on 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 giving the foot a break, soaking it in cold water (if you can find some), and giving the foot 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!