[Rilwan]

What Frustrates You The Most When Hiking?

Hello I'm is Rilwan, I'm a 2nd year Product Design Student at Huddersfield. Undertaking research finding insights to problems and frustrations faced within the natural environment regarding Hiking. Replying will any type of Frustrations are great! Frustrations you encounter with current hiking or camping equipment are even better. As experts in this field your responses would help massively. Thanks for your time, and everything helps.

If you have a few seconds on your hands, please respond to  anonymous survey - It shouldn't take more than 3 minutes. It would be much appreciated.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2p8utZEGhUW9_FzK4c4YkD0A9n-8HjJIigIiahMfxWtUMDU2VUMySk40NUNMSldGREZUQ0ZIU0FWTC4u

Thank You Once Again,
Rilwan

[moonspots]

[Bowregard]

Not much - Work and daily life frustrates me - That's why I go hiking.

[Cyclopath]

Your functionality question has "very unsatisfied" on both ends.  I'm assuming the first one is a typo.

Is this the gear I own, or the market as a whole?  There are airbag backpacks, I think it's fantastic those exist.  I don't have one because of my personal use and needs.

[Chief Joseph]

I am annoyed that I can hike pretty fast on flat terrain but uphills kick my ass.

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Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.

[Rilwan]

Thanks I’ve changed that, I’m interested in the current gear you own. Looking at an air backpack seems very cool. Thanks for your feedback

[Chief Joseph]

I am also frustrated that hot, single hiker chicks are hard to find...well at least for me.

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Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.

[moonspots]

[Chief Joseph]

I have noticed though that uphills are much easier when I am warmed up. I recently did a short hike (the old Robe trail) that begins downhill then levels off for quite a while, then uphill at the end and the uphill seemed way better.

I learned a few things from that goofball the forest gnome.

1. Warm up and take frequent breaks while doing so.
2. Hydrate
3. Take frequent breaks
4. When taking a snack break, unload your entire pack to access your food.
5. Tell any and all hiker you meet on the trail about NWhikers and Packit Gourmet.
6. Tell any and all hikers about Spider Meadows
7. Go to great fishing lakes but don't tell anyone about them.
8. Obsess about hiking in the Wind River Range.
9. Don't forget the coffee
10. Backpack to high mountain lakes when a storm is predicted so you can be up all night in fear of your life, nearly freezing, and holding on to your tent poles so it doesn't blow away.

11. O' and last but not least, how NOT to fly fish yet still catch fish...that was the most important lesson.

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Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.

[coldrain108]

yappity big mouthed dopes who can't handle the silence...the sound of their own brains drives them crazy?

Seattlepithicus Pontificatous

Shutupicus Yappitus

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"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch and do nothing"  - Albert Einstein

[puzzlr]

Your website starts with "Design Innovation Plastics"

My biggest annoyance is dog poop bags left by the trail. You could design a plastic dog poop bag that dissolves in 6 hours when the owner forgets to pick it up. At least the poop has a chance to degrade then instead of festering for months in a plastic bag.

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Mid Fork Rocks • flickr

[neek]

[Jumble Jowls]

[Cyclopath]

I would pay good money for a bluetooth jammer to disable wireless speakers in my vicinity.

[BigBrunyon]

People in my way!! Trees blocking the view!!! Regulations!!! Permits!!! People tellin me to turn down the music!!! Stubbing my toes kickin down cairns!!! People in my drone footage!!!

These things annoy me!!!

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