Some experts weigh in on the longstanding debate
“No American bats an eye in our modern age when women shop alone, drive alone, or eat alone. But hike alone, and you are most assuredly going to turn heads and acquire unsolicited lectures,” writers Karen Somers in her article “Should Women Hike Solo? Absolutely, Says One Trail Veteran,” published by The Adventure Post back in 2011. And there it was amid my morning screen-fed reading—another eloquent punch in a fight that never seems to find resolution: is it smart for a woman to hike alone? I’ve spent one too many evenings arguing with my own parents over the dinner table about the same topic. And still, years later and hopefully a little wiser, I still don’t know which side of the debate I’m on … More