I dont wear sunscreen

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Well summers comming up. I dont sun bathe but sometimes I hike long trails for like an hour and dont wear sunblock. Will I be okay if Im only out for an hour in the sun?

No. Look into ultraviolet-resistant clothing (including long sleeves, pants, and hat).

Edited to add: I don't know where you are or other factors such as race. Black people can probably tolerate more sun (but not unlimited sun). If you are very far from the equator, the sun may not be able to burn you even at the hottest part of the day.

Even if you seem to have no ill effects now, you increase your chance of skin cancer if you are in the sun a lot, unprotected.

Wear long sleeves. It doesn't get really warm in Nova Scotia too often. I don't think it gets over like 27 Celsius too often there.

Are you quite fair-skinned?

Yes I am fair skinned. Looks like Ill be needing to stay out of the sun or buy sunscreen!

Is it okay to mix with moisterizer?

I would recommend a Tilley hat when hiking... or all the time, as well as long clothing and cover up with sunscreen as well. I've had three basal cell carcinomas cut off my face and it's not fun. I think the real damage was done 40 years ago, but I take no chances now. I spend a lot of the year in Spain and I still come home as pale as when I left.

No, I wouldn't, because you don't know which chemical compounds in the moisturizer might interfere with the sunscreen chemicals.

However, they do make moisturizers that contain sunscreen, so that would be the way to go. One that I have used is Oil of Olay Daily Moisturizer, I think it has an SPF of 30. But there are loads of these products out there.

Okay I will buy some sunscreen but probably just avoid going out into the sun.

You don't want to mix moisturising cream and sunscreen. If you do apply both, first apply moisturising cream and wait until it sits. I wouldn't worry about chemical reactions between the two. Both daycare cream and sunscreen, especially the latter are designed to be very stable and neutral. Also, usual sunscreen for body does not fit the face. If you don't want the sunscreen to melt and get straight to your eyes, you would want to purchase a separate facial sunscreen (it means an expensive one).
P.S. : you may not need it at all, depending on where your hikes take place.

They make day and night lotions? And face sunscreen? I’ve always just applied whatever cheaper sunscreen to my face. For lotion I use Nivea

You can check the UV index in your area for that day. Nova Scotia is north enough that a hat might just be fine if the UV levels are low if it is an hour for one day.

Where I am, we have high UV levels and a fair skinned person on a trail on a sunny day without protection would likely burn or experience some sun damage...sometimes even with sunscreen if the SPF is too low or it's not broad spectrum.

I am not sure what sunscreens are available in Canada but generally, European sunscreens outperform American sunscreens....sunscreens are considered a drug in the US by the FDA and manufacturers are prevented from using the more photostable compounds used in Europe because they have not been tested to FDA standards despite their safety record in Europe.

As for mixing sunscreens and moisturizers, I am not aware of any contraindications against mixing sunscreens and moisturizers sold in the US but I have not done any indepth research on this. My impression is that manufacturers know women put a large swath of chemical concoctions on their face so most of the ingredients is inert under normal conditions. I have not seen warning labels on face products like there are on cleaning products. I did, however, once experience a bad reaction when I mixed two brands of sunscreen. It was an old bottle of Tropicana sunscreen with Neutrogena sunscreen. I got muscle twitches on my face where I had mixed the two.

The Neutrogena sunscreen was always questionable to me because it turned my urine light brown.

As others said though, most daytime face moisturizers have sunscreen in them.

For face sun protection I use Ramosu sunscreen. I have tried numerous stuff but it doesn't want to stay in place. Everywhere else on my body that stuff works well, but not on the face.
Night lotions can contain acids, enzymes, retinol and essential oils that should not be placed onto skin prior to sun exposure.

Just because I live up north doesn't mean it doesnt get hot and sunny. These trails I walk are shaded by trees. However the walk on the way to the trails is not. So I may need sunscreen.

But you folks in Nova Scotia rarely ever get above 30 Celsius (though I'm wondering with all this "global warming" going on whether this might change).

It's funny: I've felt just as good wearing long sleeves in hot weather as in cooler weather. I'm a person who is sensitive to the heat--yet, I feel comfortable with long sleeves in 30's Celsius temperatures.

I don't wear sunscreen because I don't sunburn despite having vanilla cream white skin.

I could not stand wearing long sleeves when its hot. It will be annoying wearing glasses with sunscreen because the sunscreen will get on the glasses and I will have to clean them all the time.