Talk:Trekking

message: Should we create a disambiguation page for e.g. trek bicycle company? 198.125.160.32 (talk) 15:16, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)

text: 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)
thread_title:  Himalayan treking  

message: 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)
replies: text: Well said.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.187.43.39 (talk) 05:19, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article or Dab page 

message: 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)
replies: text: I have made the page a disambiguation. --Voidvector (talk) 01:22, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trekker 

message: 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)
replies: text: "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)
thread_title:  Trekken, South Africa / Dutch 

message: 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)
thread_title: Page move

message: 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)
replies: text: 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. PamD 15:05, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Article merge with redirect?