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Walking and camping the remote Scottish islands?
Are you crazy? The weather is TERRIBLE.

In September 2003, I started my attempt to become the first person to sleep on all of the 162 Scottish islands over forty hectares.
On 29 August 2007, I completed the UK’s greatest ever challenge, when I left Soay St. Kilda. …
I do […]

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Rick McCharles, editor of BestHike, is gone hiking until Sept. 2nd.

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Larry Smith of AeroVest™ asked me to test their ultralight, air inflated survival vest.
It works exactly as advertised. I highly recommend this product. And it’s very inexpensive at $15.
I tested it in the Tombstone mountains in the Yukon, not far from the Arctic Circle, inflating the vest in the evening and then sleeping […]

Say that you’re planning to walk across Corsica and many assume that you’re heading for the GR20, a challenging 110-mile trail that bisects the mountainous island from north to south. As a relative beginner, I opted instead for the 50-mile Mare a Mare Sud, a gentler path that winds from Propriano in the south-west to […]

Great Southeastern Hiking Festival Conference (fee)
May 3 - 6, 2007
Montreat, North Carolina
and
FREE Public Festival
Saturday May 5
From 9 AM - 7 PM
In Downtown Black Mountain, NC
American Hiking Society: Alliance: Southern Appalachians Initiative

(Thanks Sandra. Florida Hikes)
Appalachian Trail Days
May 18-19-20 2007
Damascus, Virginia
Trail Days celebrates the Appalachian Trail and the hikers, former hikers and aspiring hikers who converge there […]

Craig Stanton from New Zealand is preparing to start the Pacific Crest Trail in April. He’s got a great website — PCT2007.org — and looks very organized.
Looks like Craig will be ready for the PCT. He blazed through one of our top 10 hikes.

Yesterday I completed the challenge I was unable to finish […]

It’s difficult to capture spectacular Multnomah Falls in one photo.

original - flickr - SqueakyMarmot

original - flickr - by righto…. 2005
more photos on flickr.
Multnomah Falls - Wikipedia

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Bloggers greatly appreciate feedback, positive or negative.
And leaving a comment tells search engines like Google that the post was worthy of your attention, positive or negative.
We got some feedback by email, response form and by comment on a recent post:
the top 10 treks in the world - 5 months?
That discussion (cost, time, difficulty level) will […]

Roraima
Originally uploaded by txago.
One day …
You too should climb to the Lost World, Roraima on the border of Venezuela, Brazil & Guyana.
It’s the highest “tepui” (flat-topped, cliff-edged mountain) at 2810m (9219ft). Recommended 6-day, 5-night round trip trek to the summit.
information page - besthike.com

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