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Hiking Sticks and Trekking Poles from About Walking. When walking in the woods and on trails, a hiking stick or a pair of trekking poles provides additional stability as well as a useful tool for sweeping aside spider webs, stray branches, and other impediments. Full Article

Featured Gear

Compact Travel Staff by Tracks

Strong, sturdy and compact. The Compact Travel Staff has an upper section with push-button length adjustment, and two shock-corded lower sections for compact storage. An elastic keeper strap secures the collapsed staff. It features a soft foam grip with Wedge Lock wrist loop, camera mount beneath walnut knob, and molded flex tip with removable rubber foot and trekking basket  More...

Walking Tours and Vacations

Walking Adventures International
Walking Adventures International provides travel programs that combine worldwide travel with recreational walking. They invite you to get off the bus, stretch the kinks out of your legs, and experience healthy travel itineraries that blend walking with historic, cultural, and scenic highlights.

Their Adventures are fast-paced overview programs designed to introduce travelers to as much of a region's significant highlights as they can manage without wearing you to a frazzle. Their travelers consistently tell them that they show them fascinating places they don't think "regular tourists" would ever see and that they see more than they would ever have imagined possible in the time they are "out on the trail."

Many of their tours offer IVV or volkssport credit to the walkers which is an added plus. Many friends have traveled with them and have provided great photos and rave reviews. Their tours are well-planned, are guided by experienced and very nice tour guides and it's a great way to see the world... one step at a time!
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Tater Tours
Tater Tours focuses on bus tours for walkers all across the United States. Tours are geared toward Volkssport events but any walker would enjoy Mary's tours.

Tater  Tours was started in 1994 as a part time business for Mary Ptacek.  Why the name you ask?  In her military days everyone had a hard time pronouncing her last name and her fellow co-workers called her “Potato Chip”.  And now you know how she thought of her business name!  She is “Head Tater” and her customers are her “Tater Tots”! 

What started out being just van trips to walks in Philadelphia, turned into three day bus trips to New York, that lead to two week bus trips to the AVA Conventions. She likes to incorporate sightseeing in with the walking also. 
 
In 1996, she pursued her dreams and the business became her full-time employment.  She lived in Maryland for 17 years and was very active in the local walking clubs. She decided to expand her business by moving to Las Vegas, Nevada. (The land of paradise, lights, and gambling!)

Mary is known for being well-organized and her trips are very reasonably priced. They are great fun and provide a wonderful way to travel the US.
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Featured Products

Get Fit With Exerstrider Walking Poles
You don’t have to buy expensive exercise machines, join a health club or hire a personal trainer to achieve total fitness.

Exerstrider poles and the easy to learn techniques turn walking into a fun and more effective total body exercise with benefits similar to cross country or “Nordic” skiing.

Now you can “work smarter, not harder” to build more fitness in less time!

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Volks-Ware Clothing and Gear features Fox River Mills wicking walking and hiking socks. You can find merino wool hiking socks and lightweight over-the-ankle type white walking socks. These are the best socks to wick away the moisture and keep your feet healthy.

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