For most people water is an issue, as it is quite difficult to survive without water and an average hiker will require at least 3-4 liters of water a day, because of the weariness and thirst that it will cause. So it may add load on your luggage. On reality you can't stay longer than 8-9 days without refilling the basic needs like food and water. These people will usually take all your backpack, take away camp, all the materials to set up and will prepare the meals too for you. The lodge to lodge hiking is the one in which you will take only very less people. This is a kind of trip where you will stay in the unsophisticated mountain lodges or huts made of alpine trees without any cook for preparing meals or any porter to carry your luggage. Try to keep sources of fire with you Take lighter or matchstick or anything which helps you to make fire, so that if one of the sources didn't work, you can depend upon the other one to produce the fire for you. Sometimes the lighter may get wet and spark won't be produced. Matchsticks which are wind proof shall be taken along with you, since it may get heated better than others. Here comes the significance of hiking equipment, which would be as important as the air you breathe, and this is so as to equip you well to face the many varied situations during the trail. Here follows a series of must-have hiking equipment for you to take during your next hike: Backpack and Rain Cover You may certainly not forget to get a backpack. You can use MSR water bladder which will not be heavy and will require only little space. Learn and have knowledge about the trip You don't have to go for any exploration classes in order to learn how to go for these outdoor activities. But you need to keep in mind that hiking trip are quite challenging in various aspects. Decrease the pain in the knees Your knees is the most supportive part of the knees and as your body weight falls on the knees ,along with the backpack on your back and the backwoods and rough climatic conditions all will bestow the distance of your hike, the influence of gravity which itself become stressful on the joints muscles, thus causing pain in the knees.