Bellingham Hiking Co-op

To facilitate hikers meeting up with other small groups of or individual like minded hikers for hikes (not walks) of +4 miles. Rather than planned and led trips the BHam Hike C-op expedites making contact with other individuals with similiar values and styles, providing them the freedom to design their own trip. This does assume a certain level of expertise and experience hiking because its too much to expect someone else to take care of you in the wilderness. We all are responsible for ourselves yet have different skills, some are better at reading maps and knowing the terrain, others have a better time sense or routefinding skills.

Yes it is an experiment. Designed primarily from my own hiking sensibilities which include hiking values such as stopping to ID plants or compose photos, experience views mindfully and even hike silently at times yet stay aware of my fellow hiker(s). Too many times I have been disappointed at the noise and size of group hikes.
This is a renewal of the old hikers co-op from the 80's, meeting in locations on the way to the mountains.
Do you like to explore new locations? Do you often plan to go on solo hikes yet bag out at the last minute because of small reasons and no one to be accountable to? Stay tuned, this group will start to develop. As a new idea it will take a few trials and experience to get it working smoothly.