What do you listen to music on when your hiking?

[SHTF]

Looking at snagging a good small lightweight long battery life mp3 player. What do you guys recommend?

 

[bobhunts]

I have one of the older I pods but I save the battery life for going to sleep. Up the mtn I listen to my lungs! Just taking in the beauty of what god has put up in front of me. Bob.

 

[shaun]

I just normally use my iPhone.

 

[justin davis]

The smallest iPod would be the best. It's about the size of a quarter. Small and light and hold quite a few songs

 

[shaun]

The smallest iPod would be the best. It's about the size of a quarter. Small and light and hold quite a few songs

I think it is called a nano I bought the wife one awhile back

 

[JoshTX]

I use my iphone. The nano also would work well.

 

[boom]

my heartbeat and wheezing lungs.

 

[pyroducksx3]

The smallest iPod is the shuffle I have two of them for working out. I have two because I'm always losing one its that small. However I never take it hiking or listen to music while actively hiking. Sometimes on solo hunts ill listen to music on my iPhone while glassing and its super slow or a little while I'm in the tent before I pass out.

 

[AK Troutbum]

my heartbeat and wheezing lungs.

That's me. Plus I wouldn't want anything to impair my hearing right before I get mauled by the brown bear. All humor aside, that is the one thing that keeps me from wearing earphones and listening to music while hiking. I came really close to shooting a brown bear that bluff charged me last year while on a hike. No way I would ever wear anything that would keep me from hearing what's going on around me.

 

[Ray]

No way I would ever wear anything that would keep me from hearing what's going on around me.

Exactly. Since I don't have eyes on the back of my head I need to be able to hear.

One afternoon in town I heard a person's foot falls change tone as I passed him going the other way, I turned in time to catch him turning around and reaching out to grab my neck or head. He did not enjoy being face to face with me - I am quite ugly - and ran off as fast as he could.

Kind of hard to hear alders bumping together as a moose or other critter walks by unseen. And hikers or bikers. I can hear chain slap well before I will ever see the bike and can round up the mutt to keep the downhill crazy from hitting her. Or she them.

 

[boom]

Yup. Besides I hate sweating into my ear pods. I like to hear the mountain biker beating down on me. And when I'm on my bike I look for ear buds on trail joggers.

 

[mt100gr.]

Reading through these posts all I can think about is the numerous walkers/joggers that jump through their ass when I pass them up on the trail. They are so unaware and into their music that they act like they've never seen a bike before. I don't like not being able to hear the world around me...for lack of a better term, it makes you vulnerable. Unplug.

 

[tttoadman]

I have never listened to music while moving in the forest other than the voices in my head. I have been humming the same tune forever when I walk. I couldn't even tell you what it is. Whether I am hoofing in the dark in or out of a hunt, or hiking up the trail after a morning of fly fishing, it just seams to come out.

 

[Where's Bruce?]

I guess you won't hear the screams from your partner as he is being mauled. Nature is music to my ears.

 

[Buglebrush]

Leave the music behind. Part of the call of the mountains is just getting away from all the distractions.

 

[SHTF]

Guess I should be clear here. This is not for hunting but training and hiking at the local park. I need motivation in my ears. What everyone said above is the same way I feel but when Im out hiking at my lunch everyday or out at our local Park hiking the trails having some music to keep my mind busy while pushing myself makes all the sense in the world to me. So back to what do you use..........

Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Ray]

In the local park three blocks north of me there will be garbage eating black bears often. In the local park 3 miles south there are grizzly and black bears eating salmon or joggers and bike riders, or cow moose having issues. People complain all the time that Anchorage is only 1 hour from AK, but I find its really only about 10 feet or less from AK.

 

[mt100gr.]

...to the OP, this time and your question. If it was me, I'd look at a cheaper mp3 player. I think technology, regardless of the brand or cost, is built to fail. Putting a piece of fruit on it does not make it better, IMHO. I got my wife a Sony a few years ago and it's still working fine.

 

[SHTF]

...to the OP, this time and your question. If it was me, I'd look at a cheaper mp3 player. I think technology, regardless of the brand or cost, is built to fail. Putting a piece of fruit on it does not make it better, IMHO. I got my wife a Sony a few years ago and it's still working fine.

Thanks mt was curious on this. I didn't want to go drop a bunch of cash on one. I may just use my phone. Since starting this post I loaded some tunes on the android and it sounds great. So may just stick to that.

 

[AK Troutbum]

We just had a brown bear maul a 25 year old lady while she was jogging yesterday. I don't know if it would have changed anything or not, but she was listening to music while jogging down a road on our AF/Army base.