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Via Ferrata – Squamish, B.C.
“Right to Roam”
Allemansrätten.
This video was actually filmed in Lofoten, Norway. But they also have a right to roam law in Norway.
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A funny John Muir Trail Book
I read Almost Somewhere by Suzanne Roberts in advance of our upcoming JMT hike.
Day One, and already she was lying in her journal.
It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future.
But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s account of that hike. …
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Mountainsmith Zerk 40 Backpack
MAGGIE SLEPIAN: Best Backpacking Packs of 2020
Maggie’s article includes my own current favourite, the Hyperlite 3400.
NEW to me is the Mountainsmith Zerk 40, Editors’ Choice Award 2020 from Backpacker Magazine.
It’s quite different. More pockets. More features. Yet astonishingly still weighs only 1 pound, 9 ounces if you remove some of the extras.
Looks ideal for trail runners and fast packers.
I’m intrigued. Having carried a frameless pack for most of my life, I’d mostly use the Zerk frameless and without the hip belt.
It was designed in consultation with thru hiker The Hiking Viking, Tom Gathman.
I’m not a fan of the look, however. And it’s not waterproof.
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Giant BANANA SLUG in my Tent
On finishing my first West Coast Trail hike 1999 I threw my backpack into the trunk. Drove directly to my parents home hours away.
Two days later I unpacked. Found 2 banana slugs inside.
I’m more careful now to keep pot, mug and cutlery clean and packed away at night.
My tent zipped.
Yet I still had a banana slug in my tent this year. 😐
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Dientes de Navarino, Chilean Patagonia
One of the #BestHikes in the world.
Suzie Dundas posted a terrific trip report for Outside magazine:
Dientes de Navarino is a trek of superlatives.
It starts from the southernmost town in the world—Puerto Williams, on the 55th parallel. …
Our upcoming trek would cover anywhere from 35 to 45 miles, depending on what route we chose and how accurately our trackers would monitor our steps through mud and snow.
First trekked in the late 1990s but only officially (and partially) marked in 2016, around 200 people attempted the trail annually before its blazing. Since then, the number has gone up to between 1,000 and 1,500 per year. …
A Trek to the Edge of the World
How to tackle Chilean Patagonia’s Dientes de Navarino, considered the most unpredictable trek in the world
related – our failed attempt at Dientes de Navarino
Protected: To & From John Muir Trail
Sunshine to Mt Assiniboine, B.C.
One of our top 10 hikes in the world takes you from the Sunshine Ski Resort in Banff National Park, Canada along the top of the world to the most scenic peak in the Canadian Rockies.
Check our Sunshine to Assiniboine information page.
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Eric Hanson’s fave 6 adventures
Eric is the host of EPIC TRAILS TV.
Mount Hikurangi, New Zealand
Mount Mnich, Poland
Mount Begbie, Canada
Dewey Point, California
Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska
Petra, Jordan
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