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Mountaineering

The document defines and describes several outdoor recreational activities: Mountaineering involves climbing steep mountainsides as a hobby or sport, requiring skills in rock-craft, snow-craft, and skiing depending on the terrain. Trekking refers to long, arduous journeys on foot that are more challenging than hiking. Hiking involves walking outdoors on trails for recreation. Camping is spending nights outdoors in shelters like tents. Orienteering is a competitive sport where participants navigate between checkpoints using maps and compasses to find their way in unfamiliar terrain.

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Mountaineering

The document defines and describes several outdoor recreational activities: Mountaineering involves climbing steep mountainsides as a hobby or sport, requiring skills in rock-craft, snow-craft, and skiing depending on the terrain. Trekking refers to long, arduous journeys on foot that are more challenging than hiking. Hiking involves walking outdoors on trails for recreation. Camping is spending nights outdoors in shelters like tents. Orienteering is a competitive sport where participants navigate between checkpoints using maps and compasses to find their way in unfamiliar terrain.

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Rochie K.

Roasa
TVL – Pearl

1. Mountaineering
 The activity of climbing the steep sides of
mountains as a hobby or sport.
 Describes the sport of mountain climbing.
 Mountaineering began as attempts to
reach the highest point of unclimbed big
mountains, it has branched into
specializations that address different
aspects of the mountain and consists of
three (3) areas: rock-craft, snow-craft, and
skiing, depending on whether the route
chosen is over rock, snow or ice.
 It is often called Alpinism, especially in
European languages, which implies
climbing routes with minimal equipment in
high and often snow and ice-covered
mountains such as the Alps, where
technical difficulties frequently exceed
environmental and physical challenges.

2. Hiking
 Activity of going for long walks in the
countryside.
 It is the preferred term, in Canada and the
United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually
on trails (footpaths), in the countryside.
 In the United States, Canada, the Republic of
Ireland, and United Kingdom, hiking means
walking outdoors on a trail, or off trail, for
recreational purposes. A day hike refers to a
hike that can be completed in a single day.
 Hiking sometimes involves bushwhacking and is
sometimes referred to as such. This specifically
refers to difficult walking through dense forest,
undergrowth, or bushes, where forward
progress requires pushing vegetation aside. In
extreme cases of bushwhacking, where the
vegetation is so dense that human passage is
impeded, a machete is used to clear a pathway.
Rochie K. Roasa
TVL – Pearl

3. Trekking
 It is going on a long arduous journey,
typically on foot.
 It is a more rigorous and challenging
activity than hiking
 It is a common term for multi-day hikes
without the need for permanent
accommodation and tent, partly away
from infrastructure such as roads or
paths.

4. Camping
 The activity spending a vacation
living in a camp, tent, or camper.
 It is an outdoor activity involving
overnight stays away from home in
a shelter, such as a tent.
 Describes a range of activities and
approaches to outdoor
accommodation.
 To be regarded as "camping" a
minimum of one night is spent outdoors, distinguishing it from day-tripping, picnicking, and
other similarly short-term recreational activities.
 Camping can be enjoyed through all four seasons.

5. Orienteering
 A competitive sport in which participants
find their way to various checkpoints
across rough country with the aid of a
map and compass, the winner being the
one with the lowest elapsed time.
 It is a group of sports that
requires navigational skills using
a map and compass to navigate from
point to point in diverse and usually
unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at
speed. 

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