Having been making my own kilts for a while I would recommend the reverse Kingussie style, with the pleats opening to the rear on both sides as the best one for hiking.
There is much less chance of catching a pleat and doing damage to it with the pleats 'feathered' around the body - having ripped several kilts with standard pleating and at least twice having to extricate myself from some scrub by releasing the kilt straps and then going back for it all my kilts are reverse Kingussie style.
Anne the Pleater
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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