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The Adventure Blogger went to Kilimanjaro, inspired by the 2002 IMAX film by David Breashears.

Kilimanjaro - To the Roof of Africa (Large Format)
I finally saw the film myself.
Fantastic.
When can I go?
There’s a terrific, funny review of the film on Amazon posted by Archimedes Tritium:
… The narrator (mountain guide Jacob Kyungai) intones that climbers of […]

We have no urban pathways on our list of the best hikes in the world.
Perhaps we should have.
On a stopover in San Antonio, Texas, recently, I did the River Walk (Paseo del Rio). Beautiful.

original - flickr - Stephen Witherden
I did it at night. Quite late. Most of the restaurants were already closed so […]

Kraig linked to some fantastic pics:
… head over to the National Geographic Adventure website and take a gander at the winners of their “Life’s An Adventure photo contest.
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Kraig’s favourite was taken on Mt. Kilimanjaro.
I like this one: Climbing California’s Mount Humphreys

8 winners
5 runner-ups

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Kraig posted a link to the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival in England on The Adventure Blog.
He must have been too busy (for some reason) to look for the trailer on YouTube.

I’ve got your back, buddy.

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(… trying to tie-in a Valentine’s Day theme. Pitiful.)
The “dangers of hiking” are almost always exaggerated in my opinion. Not so the dangers of coastal hiking.
I have a friend who was once caught in a surge channel, lucky to survive.
Uncooped has a good post on the hazards of California coastal hiking including this […]

They’re endless.
But here are two posted by Frank in Oz that I’m seriously considering for my Adventure Racing kit. Click through for details.

Blisters? - Not this time, Sue tries Injinji hiking socks with success - Our Hiking Blog

Ultralight D-Ring for your pack - Our Hiking Blog
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Obviously our best hikes map of the world should be interactive in the way used by Modern Hiker in California:

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This is a home-grown Google Map with hiking information in Los Angeles and Southern California. Every trail I’ve written up for the site is accompanied by a pin, color-coded by difficulty. Clicking on a pin will […]

My favourite travelogue over the past few months has been Erin McKittrick and Bretwood (Hig) Higman’s Journey on the Wild Coast:
“From the Puget Sound to the Bering Sea: Four thousand miles along the edge of the Pacific, by foot, raft, and skis.”

After 8 months, they are only half way finished. (The original plan was 9 […]

Last year I hiked Syncline Loop in Canyonlands, Island in the Sky, Arizona. Awesome. (My trip report.)
Upheaval Dome, the crater there, is only one of 174 such structures as listed on the Earth Impact Database. I wonder how many others have good hikes.
This year I MISSED the chance to see Meteor Crater though it was […]

Most of the more interesting blogs than this have already commented on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study by Oliver Pergams from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

… Since the late 1980s, the percentage of Americans taking part in such activities has declined at slightly more than 1 percent a year. […]