Hiking is good exercise, and an exercise that you can continue to do throughout your lifetime. I distinctly remembering as a sixth grader camper watching in ut

Hiking is good exercise, and an exercise that you can continue to do throughout your lifetime. I distinctly remembering as a sixth grader camper watching in utter disbelief as a 70 yo man charged up the mountain ahead of us while us kids lagged behind, and whined how tired out our legs were. As for age ... I can hike better and further now as a non-smoker in my later forties than I did when I was in my twenties and smoking a pack a day.