As the cool breeze flows, your mind is set and relaxed, nature is beautiful as it can be with birds humming and a tall mountain to climb. That is all a person really needs. This led two FHN students to start the school’s first ever hiking club. This club was created by a student at FHN who had some friends help along the way. Senior Carson Hackney had some ideas for different clubs he wanted to start and he had help from junior Maggie McNevin. She was leaning toward hiking club since they both like hiking. 

“I would like for other people to gain the chance to go hiking,” Hackney said. “Not a lot of people have the opportunity or time, this way they can take in nature and relax from their problems.”

Hackney started posting about hiking club all around social media and asked people if they’d liked to join. This club is mainly focused on outdoor activities, like hiking, and members of hiking club are hoping to do more things like trash pic-ups and maybe overnights with the members.

“I love the people that are in it,” McNevin said. “Ecology club has different varieties, where as hiking club there’s more people who like hiking and love the same thing, so were like a family and we have similar interests.”

There are currently thirty eight members in the hiking club and if people are interested they can still join.

Junior Sarah Arnold is a member of the hiking club. She first heard about hiking club when she was in biology teacher Dawn Hahn’s class a month ago and decided to join.

“When I heard about it, I was like, ‘that’s cool I wanna do hiking,’” Arnold said. “It’s really beautiful and peaceful to hike with people and get to know them.”