Can I wear gym clothes to hike? If you’re going out on your first hike – or at least, your first hike since those family vacations to National Parks decades ago – you might be asking yourself this question. Do a quick Google search or spend a few minutes looking through Advnture’s guides such as what to wear for hiking and you could easily be left thinking that your first hike is going to be a pricey affair.
I’ve been an avid hiker since my adolescence (about 30 years) and these days, I’ll admit that I have a wardrobe full of expensive hiking gear that’s high performing, which usually means it manages moisture, has insulating properties, offers some protection against the weather and has lots of storage for gear like headlamps and my compass. But for at least the first half of my time in the mountains, I made do with gym gear, some of it was probably cotton and I never died once.
