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Several of my favourite bloggers picked up on a story in Forbes Traveler magazine.
It’s not comprehensive review, rather a few picks from well respected experts. (Those in bold are also on our list of best hikes in North America. )
Mt. Katahdin, Baxter State Park, Maine
Kennecott District, Wrangell St Elias National Park, Alaska
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, […]

Love in a Tent loved the QCT, posting a detailed trip report:
… We randomly decided to spend 4 days doing the 3-5 day trip, without having first checked on details like, say, the distance. So we were a little surprised to see that it was 71km long - that’s longer than our 5-day trek on […]

From the movie.
Simpsons DVD / Alaska

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Every time I get to Lost Wages, I spend at least one day at Red Rock. It’s only a few miles from the strip to 197,000 acres of beautiful desert wilderness.
While most outdoors folk go for the bouldering, you can quickly access great hiking, as well.
Branch Whitney posted his favourite hikes there:
Easy Hikes
Calico […]

On The Adventure Blog, Kraig linked through to a terrific hiking site:

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Click through to the interactive map on Adventure Zone. You will be impressed with the amount and detail of information on hiking in Namibia, Swaziland and South Africa available.
My #1 destination in South Africa is the Drakensberg. But clearly there are many, many […]

There are manuals on “how to build trails”.
I wish the guys who built Canyon Trail on Kauai, Hawaii had read one.
Have you seen this “danger” on the hiking trail in the past?

The spikes are used to hold the step logs in place. Works great … until the rains come.

Here the kids were simulating […]

Shout out to my old friend Greg Kolodziejzyk.
He made a fortune in the early days of the internet selling fonts to Adobe. Went on to more successful business ventures.
But these days Greg’s passion is extreme adventure. He wants “To conquer the world by human power.”
He has several sites including these two:
Adventures of Greg
Pedal […]

The most popular way to see the “Grand Canyon of the Pacific” is Canyon Trail, 3.6mi (5.8km) with a short side trip on Cliff Trail to the lookout.

The goal is Waipoo Falls where Kokee Stream drops into the canyon.

I thought the “moderate difficulty” trail might be a bit much for the kids, but […]

Will this help open up the country to independent hikers?
A political party seen as the more royalist of two groups seeking power swept the first parliamentary elections ever held in this secluded Himalayan kingdom, Bhutan’s election commissioner said Monday.
The Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party took 44 of the 47 seats in the new parliament, Election […]

The only person more excited than me about the new North Coast Trail on Vancouver Island, Canada, is BluePeak editor Rogier Gruys.
Rogier linked to an article in Wild Coast Magazine in which the authors claim the NCT is even better than the famed WCT, our #1 hike in the world.
High praise!
We’ll need to hike […]