what's up guys my name is habiba and I am Alex and we are trekking pals
In today's video we're gonna be answering ten hiker tag questions for you guys to get
to know us a little bit more we've looked up some of these questions
on other people's youtube and they turn out to be a popular ten. We figured this was a
good way to get to know you, let you get to know us...let's get into it
question number 1: who are you I'm Alex I grew up on the East Coast
I slowly made my way across the United States west until I got to Arizona
I write software for a living and I picked up hiking probably about three years ago
I've been enjoying it ever since. My name is Habiba I'm from Morocco North Africa
and you'll see it somewhere here or here maybe! I work in information
Technology as a Scrum Master and if you don't know what that is let me know in a
comment and I will give you some information about it. I've been living in
Arizona for about three years now and I've been hiking since then and I love
everything about being outdoors. Question number 2:
when did you start hiking?I think I started hiking about three years ago since
I moved to Arizona. Growing up I I was always by the ocean
there wasn't a lot of mountains or trails for hiking so yeah three years ago
I started hiking about three years ago as well I think my first hikre was
Camelback Mountain and it was pretty difficult for me. Right now it's not the
biggest hike anymore but back then man it was a tough thing! That was our second day
right yeah I think last though we've started hiking a lot more since then but
I gotta say that was that was a good first hike to be introduced with in my
opinion. Question number three: Do you backpack?
I started backpacking about three years ago same time that I started hiking
I've gone another car camping trips and other things like that before we never
really carried stuff in a bag out until the wilderness or spent a night even and
then came back there was always a relatively nearby I've come to enjoy it
certainly I don't backpack as much as I hike although I guess that's probably
normal I also backpack and I really enjoy
backpacking just sitting by the campfire marshmallows and mint tea in the morning
it's really fun and I guess I've been backpacking since I moved here to
Arizona about three years ago. We don't backpack as much as we would love to
just because it's kind of easier to go on day hikes instead of dedicating the
whole weekend to be in outdoors with you know just life and work and other
priorities but we do love backpacking and I guess the last backpacking trip we
had together was back in September in New Mexico- The Gila Wilderness
it was really fun so it's been about three months since our last
backpacking trip but if you're curious about the the backpacking trip we took
in the Gila wilderness we do have a video and we will put it somewhere here
Question number four: what's your favorite trail food? My favorite trail food
is cheddar cheese Pringles and string cheese
I tried all the trail mix and all the granola bars and protein bars and I just
don't like them anymore and yeah I love singles and I love cheese training
that's my thing mmm my favorite trail food is tough to
say to be honest with you I don't mind the Clif bars yet I haven't got sick of
them I think they've got a lot of the right stuff in them that I need and I'm
not really trying to eat for flavor so much outside I mean new tablets give me
all the sodium I need I'll eat trail mix and other things but really for me it's
it's not like a sandwich that I stuffed in my bag or some McDonald's burger that
I picked up in the morning and I know they're they keep pretty good but early
in terms of a snack food I can't really say that I have a go-to snack yet I will
say actually for day hikes when we're going on you know hike like Camelot
could be see what peak here in Arizona we do love peaches right and the oranges
they're really really tasty especially if they are organic and fresh enough oh
they're good question number five Hamza
what is your longest hike mmm I think it's gonna be the same answer for you
and me this time yeah it's got to be the inca trail we've done a couple long
hikes 12 miles to debug the inca trail though we'll be trying 26 miles right
yeah the whole trek is about 26 miles it takes four days three nights' to finish
the whole classic inca trail to machu picchu and i think it's one of the most
beautiful adventures that we there definitely I think it was was
interesting to go start kind of close to society and how buses drop you off and
you see power lines a train still and venture into nowhere
and then slowly make your way back into it again it was really interesting but
um I mean by a good distance that's our longest hike I think yeah so like this
is that's definitely the longest and we're looking forward to trying longer
hikes no definitely this will bring those up question number six what's your
most repeated trail I think this is going to be the same answer for both of
us again the most repeated trail for both of us is Camelback Mountain just
because it's you know there in the Sears City easily accessible we can just take
an over there or walk or it's very convenient very close by and that was my
first hike in Arizona I would say and I think your first hike as well and every
time we have someone you visiting from out of town it's the easy hike I mean
easy not in terms of difficulty it is still a difficult hard hard kind of hike
but it's just easily accessible this height can get a little bit crowded but
still I do enjoy the sunrise or the sunset views from the top of coming back
they're very pretty and especially if we take those they should be just up there
oh yeah really enjoyable so yeah check it out and you do have a video about
that hike as well question number seven
okay what are you three bucket list hikes mmm alright I'm gonna do these
three okay no particular order okay I'm gonna start with the Appalachian Trail
it's really long trail right this one's gonna take you a couple months most
people about six months number two again no particular the cone schleiden right
coach Lane is located in sweet the north/south trail I think we would
probably do it north to south and it'll take people again the better part of a
month a couple of climbs but so far as I recall there's a lot of reindeer there's
well you can go through some herd of reindeer oh that the the size is really
beautiful oh yeah exciting and there are some water
crossing - - right - paddle a boat and the third trail is going to be the
Jordan trail to Petra oh now I'm not as well seasons I guess in what this hike
is going to show me I'm more about the trail at the end I hear that the trails
really nicely maintained and I'm looking to get to Petra
I think the Jordan Trail is the most beautiful and well maintained hikes in
even Middle East and also Jordan is pretty safe country to go to and hike in
and just beautiful and the end you get to see all Petra and the beautiful just
experience the culture overall it's really fun sure I guess my three bucket
list hikes are in no particular order either the first one is the Kalalau
trail in Hawaii I've never been to Hawaii before and I think it would be
really cool to go there explore the area and this had looks really gorgeous and
the second one would be the two blue Mont Blanc in Europe it's a beautiful
hike that takes you through France Switzerland and Italy and you pretty
much hiking in the beautiful Alps and nice meadows for about eight to ten days
again how much time you want to spend there so
that's definitely one that I wanted you and then the third one would be DW
secrets in torres del paine in chile it's one of the most beautiful hikes in
Patagonia and I love South America and it will be a nice one - the truth the
time' does sound exciting I know we've watched a few videos of people doing it
it looks alright and you're thinking when you do the whole loop and the W
right I mean it really depends on how much time we have but it will be nice in
the halls it is perfect you are working people with yeah PTO for some of these
trips same time we probably should have mentioned that before but we do work
full-time nine-to-five job and we just try to squeeze in as many adventures as
we can certainly question number eight you prefer GPS or mapping compass for me
I think it's GPS and particularly all trails all day every day and by the way
I do have a video about how to use all trails for hikers and backpackers
somewhere again but yeah all trails it's easy but that doesn't mean that the map
and compass are not valuable it's just that I don't have the necessary skills
to rely on you know reading them happen using compass and that's one one of the
things that I want to improve I'm all for GPS as well I mean in today's day
and age they're so accessible you've got a phone in your pocket most likely a
smartphone if you are hiking with a group of people the independence
you have your own device have your own map don't rely on other people even
though you guys can be hiking next to each other names happen I mean they can
just go use the restroom and then they're gone you don't know where they
and then you just need the middle of nowhere so do not rely on other people
and just have something to help you know where you are and get from point A to
point B it's really important so you can see why they there question number nine
who do you like with mr. exam hmm get the lucky benefit of being able
answer another one of these questions around thinking you have the same answer
I was i hyper to be with all the time we got started together there are so many
times where we just we're always trying to look for ie to go on when we go
together every now and then blue moons sort of stuff one of us will be out of
town like I said or we might go on another trip just with a different group
and then the other one of us is unavailable but yeah we hang together
all the time oh you've done stuff like right cry
together as well I mean like really anything that's one of those long
adventure things we enjoy spending that time yeah we just believed that you know
if it's something that we enjoy why would we not do it together and I'd
rather spend my time hiking with you then with someone else
sure question number 10 what do you look for a Nike trip mmm I think for me it
really depends on what trail and what I'm looking for so for example if I'm in
Glacier National Park the one thing that I'm really looking for is wildlife
encounters you know mousse or grizzly bear seeing some gear on the trail and I
really get excited about that which by the way we did see a grizzly bear in
english' National Park twice and it was really exciting if I am hiking with for
example new people or friends who've never hiked before one of the things
that I'm really excited about is the joy and happiness in their faces when they
get to the top of the mountain or they you know they just face their fear and
challenge themselves if I am for example trying to do the highest mountain in
North Africa or the highest mountain Russia or something like that I'm really
looking for that sense of achievement and accomplishment and knowing that an
average person average hiker with average fitness and I was able to do it
and that gives me you know that beautiful sense of achievement and
accomplishment oh yeah let's say for me it's usually about feeling good about
myself I like to get a little bit of elevation I like to get my heart racing
now there are so many different reasons why we'll go on the hike so it's hard to
talk about one or the other but on a weekend hike after I've just been doing
work work work work work all week it's nice to be able to just pluck yourself
right out of there and drop yourself into the wilderness somewhere so it's a
lot of the Gila wilderness is great a Vista and Ozzie or anyone on ablation
was a bit was a really good thing however if we're kind of training for a
bit of a climb it's nice to get to the summit and I want to be able to see some
nice stuff along the way of course I like to be able to get to the summit
don't really appreciate that view and then there are other ones or to feel
good trips going the glacier where you want to see wildlife you want to see the
flowers and the trees and the glacier anything else I'd agree then sometimes
people come to Phoenix you want to show them something fun but may not be as
difficult camelbaks a good one that I think you
get a good sense of accomplishment on the first time up but what I look for in
a trail adventure wonderful thing that brings us to the end of our 10 questions
that doesn't stop us from answer more if you guys have any other questions when I
asked us know with that thank you guys for watching and we'll see you soon on
another adventure I'm Geneva I'm Alex we are