Talk:Trekking

Himalayan treking
Why do the Himalayan Mountains deserve their own section in this article? Trekking, as I understand it, is enjoyed on 6 continents more or less equally. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.201.173.181 (talk) 16:58, 12 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Though I created the section but I support you, I think someone must start other sections of trekking in different continents. You know, I created the section with a hope that seeing the section other users might also start similiar sections, thus the status of the article.--Soumit Banerjee (talk) 08:06, 23 December 2010 (UTC)


 * This word might be an anglicism. In the U.S. we would say backpacking instead. We tend not to have teahouses, alpine huts, or porters so we usually need to carry everything for self-suffiency.  There is, however, hiking with pack animals doing the heavy carrying.  I've never gone on one of those so I'm not sure if there's a compact term for it.  Anyhow, perhaps the etymology section should explain how the word is used in some countries, then mention -- or better link to -- equivalent terms used elsewhere. For exanple, what term would Brits use on the Continent when relying on alpine huts for food and lodging and not engaging in serious alpinism? LADave (talk) 19:36, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Article or Dab page
I don't get it. Is this an article or a dab page? I came to put a hatnote for Trek Bicycle Corporation. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:02, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Well said. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.187.43.39 (talk) 05:19, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Trekker
While creating a new article earlier, I added the wikilink trekker to the page and was a little surprised to discover that the link redirected to Trekkie, the Star Trek fan article. I caught it in time and manually directed the link to here where I wanted it, but I was wondering if Trekkie was really the best destination for that default redirect. It is my understanding that "trekker" is a legitimate word meaning - One who treks; thus, a hiker. I ran this issue by at the Trekkie talk page, but I am not very optimistic about any response I might get from there. I admitt there is an argument to be made for trekker to redirect to trekkie. Any thoughts? Where is the best place to raise issues about redirects? Racerx11 (talk) 03:51, 15 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I have made the page a disambiguation. --Voidvector (talk) 01:22, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Trekken, South Africa / Dutch
I think we should attribute the Dutch for the word 'trekken' because it is also stated in the Oxford dictionary that it originates from South Africa Dutch. And 'trekken' itself is a Dutch word. I would say, the word 'trek' originates from the Dutch 'trekken' but commonly used in South Africa / Africa. The Dutch once colonized the South Africa as far as I know, the South Africans also spoke Dutch. Rezonjov (talk) 09:20, 7 July 2011 (UTC)


 * "Trekken" may well have been an Afrikaans word, although not used anymore. The line separating Dutch from Afrikaans wasn't always that clear. I would wager that the reason it is stated here that "trek" is from Afrikaans and not from Dutch is that it was absorbed into English through South African English from Afrikaans, and not from the Dutch spoken in the Netherlands. Adriaan Joubert (talk) 11:40, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Page move
This article is about the verb, not the noun, just as Hiking is not called Hike and Swimming is not called Swim. I will move this page to Trekking unless there are objections. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:15, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Move?

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 16:20, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Trek → Trekking –
 * natural title, as proposed in Sept 2011 at Talk:Trek and not opposed. Blocked by redirect. Pam  D  14:37, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:CRITERIA. This seems to be inline with other topics linked from adventure travel. --BDD (talk) 18:06, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Article merge with redirect?
WP has other very similar articles. Hiking for example, and this one has a good section on regional differences in terminology. Backpacking (wilderness) is a more North American variant, and there may be other terms and regional flavors. Nevertheless there is a great deal of overlap. Maybe these all need to be merged with redirects from Trekking, Tramping, etc. etc.? LADave (talk) 20:00, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
 * In British English I'd suggest that "trekking" is the kind of multi-day hiking trip, in Himalayas or similar, for which one has a guide and perhaps porters. You wouldn't go "trekking" in the English Lake District, or even along the Pennine Way. Pam  D  15:05, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I've been on self-guided multi-day hikes in Nepal -- both with and without a porter -- and called it trekking as well. OK, what do folks in the U.K. call hiking in the alps, using huts for food and lodging? Does the term change depending on whether you have a guide? LADave (talk) 17:23, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Reading this article, it seems to be about the same as "Backpacking (wilderness)". That from a non-English language point of view (I am Portuguese). So at first glance I support the merge, and advertised it on the article pages. - Nabla (talk) 12:41, 1 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I think that terms like trekking, backpacking and walking tour are closely related. I would go on a walking tour in the English Lakes, the Alps, France, or Greece, but I might also use the words trek, or backpacking for the Alps, and especially for somewhere like Greece, where generally walking is less developed, though probably not for England -- but maybe for Scotland. There's also the related term hillwalking. Rwood128 (talk) 14:32, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

I have placed the section on trekking in the Himalyas in the Long distance trail article, which seems appropriate, as well as a brief extract in Backpacking (wilderness) article. As there doesn't seem to be any objection, I suggest that the merge should be made as soon as possible.Rwood128 (talk) 23:01, 21 July 2014 (UTC)