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Best Hiking Skirts
For Female and Male
Hikers

by Diane Spicer

If you're already searching for the best hiking skirts, you've landed in the right spot!

Let's get to it, shall we?

Each category of hiking skirts will present the benefits of each choice, so you can select the skirt(s) for your trail style, body type and preferences.

What to wear hiking can't get any easier than that, now can it?

Best hiking skirts
for warm weather hiking

Ah, the joy and freedom of swinging your legs on the trail - without being confined in hot hiking pant legs.

• Not to mention the ease of making a pitstop
  

But let's be smart about baring our legs, in terms of avoiding losing any epidermis to the trail.

Also, modest hiking skirts might be your goal (no flashing).

So your first decision:

Go long, or go short?

But definitely go hiking in your skirt!!

A nicely short option for hiking

Hiking in warm weather means working up a lot of sweat, which pools in the creases of your knees and groin.

A well made skirt well above your knees creates the perfect venting opportunity.

Take a look at this one from Skirt Sports:

Magnolia Skirt - Skirt Sports

Its elastic waistband plus interior drawcord makes it easy to customize to your preference: up high, or down low on your hips.

Comes in this bright color, or basic black.

You can also pair it with layers, as you'll see below.

Want more coverage?

Back in the good old days of maxi skirts (the sixties, to be exact, and yes, I wore them back then), you couldn't turn around without tripping over one.

Now they're back, and suitable for the trail - except above the knee, right where it should be so YOU don't trip.

This Royal Robbins Discovery Strider Skirt is a personal favorite, and has been put to the test many times on the trail, and also used as a traveling skirt or around town.

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The best hiking skirts
might be attached to a dress!

LadyHike makes some amazingly comfortable trail dresses.

Consider the Summer Day Dress:

• lightweight, breathable fabric
• lots of pockets
• sleeveless for unencumbered arm movements
• body skimming but not too tight
  

LadyHike makes great trail skirts, too!

• Check them out here.
  

Best hiking skirts
for cool weather hiking

Seriously?

Wear a skirt on a chilly trail in the fall and spring?

Yes, but add some leg coverage.

The reason?

When (if?) the day warms up, off go the leggings, leaving you free to enjoy the mild (hopefully sunny) weather when your legs get sweaty.

Here's a good combo: Skirt Sports Toasty Cheeks Maxi Skirt plus a pair of their lovely triple pocket tights:

The skirt has a lot of nice trail features:

• two pockets
• wide, comfortable waist band that won't fight with your backpack hip belt
• side slits for easy striding down the trail
• Anti-Chill Barrier Fabric
• UV 50+ for skin protection on those sunny but cold days

And the tights can stand alone!

Another choice

If you wear a skirt with built in leg coverage, you're guaranteed protection against a brushy trail, rocky outcrops you need to scoot over, or biting insects that didn't get the "it's fall, go away" memo.

Best hiking skirts
for cold (as in brrrr) 
hiking trails

Best hiking skirts
for layering

Layering with tights is one way to get more mileage out of the best hiking skirts.

If you liked the look of any of the skirts above, layer them up!

Here's another worthy layering trick: leggings.

Thin leggings (a bit thicker than tights, also more resistant to snags) plus a quilted skirt, like this one from Icebreaker, will give you mobility plus warmth.

The skirt features Merino wool insulation, which is not only warm but breathable.

These REI Co-op Streelowe leggings give you a lot of versatility with this hiking outfit: wear them alone, pair with the skirt, or wear them underneath rain pants.

What about rainy weather?

Yeah, about that rain.

The Royal Robbins Discovery skirt you saw at the top of the page makes a good rainy day option, because it dries fast when the raindrops stop dropping.

• Add a pair of leggings or tights, and your legs are comfy all the way to the ankles without sacrificing mobility.

What about skorts?

Ah, yes, the ingenious fusion of shorts + skirt: the skort.

Some women love 'em.

Others despise them.

But you won't know which camp you're in until you try one!

Here's a good choice for a hiking skort:

Best hiking skirts
for men

Never let it be said that Hiking For Her excludes males from the realm of hiking skirts.

• There are some mighty attractive male hikers sporting skirts on the trail, and looking cool and comfortable in their hairy bare legs.

That's all she wrote!

Gotcha covered for all hiking skirt options.

Now it's going to be a challenge to select just one hiking skirt from this list.

But I have confidence in you!

A word of warning:

• You'll find, as with all hiking gear, you'll be adding to your collection of the best hiking skirts as the seasons roll along.

Be proud of your strong hiker legs in your hiking skirt.

• And enjoy the leg freedom :)

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