Dave Adlard and my masochistic friends from Team Adventure Sports Week are seriously talking about doing this
… 120 hours of glorious suffering in the Mojave desert outside of Vegas, Sept 18 – 25ish…
How can I stop them?
Gear Junkie – best backpacks of all time
GossamerGear Mariposa Plus
Golite Jam
ULA P-2/Catalyst
Mountain Laurel Designs Exodus
Mountainsmith Ghost
Jason Klass explains why in this video …
There are a lot of lightweight and ultralight packs out there and I’ve tried many of them. Here are my picks for the top 5 including their strengths and weaknesses.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I’m sorry to say that my own pack, the Granite Gear Virga (VIDEO), did not make his list. He did choose it a number of years ago – best gear of the past 5 years.
related – Adventure Blog – The Best Backpack for Two Hours or Two Months (Sierra Magazine picks)
running Wonderland, July 26-29th
That’s the plan.
Trail run the Wonderland Trail around Mt. Ranier in Washington State.
90mi (145km)
Wish us luck.
Dr. Jeni … Dr. Rick … and Dr. Dave.
What do you think? … Three days, two short nights?
Harding Icefield Trail, Alaska
Hank Leukart is in Alaska.
HOW TO HIKE THE HARDING ICEFIELD TRAIL
OVERVIEW: The Harding Icefield Trail is an 8.2-mile, 5-hour hike round trip with a 3,150-foot elevation gain. Hiking conditions are best from June to September. Early in the season, about half of the trail is covered in snow, but hikers with boots will have little problem walking through it.
DIRECTIONS: Kenai Fjords National Park is about a three-hour drive, south of Anchorage, Alaska. …
ROUTE: Even in the snow, the trail is well-marked with signs and orange flags. …
details on Without Baggage – where days last forever.
… exploring the land of the midnight sun.
cheap flights to Iceland
Prices this low from Europe are rare in high season. Iceland Express.
starting at €90, £65 or DKK650 one-way including taxes and fees, one way.
Late June, early July.
best besthike photos
We’ve updated our best of “best hike” photo set. That’s now over 700 pics from site editor Rick McCharles and contributors.
scrambling Mt Remus, Alberta
Great day.
Evidence we made the summit – Amber writing us up in the summit log.
Of our group of five hikers, three were gymnasts. Here’s Krista celebrating the summit.
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We cycled in 6.5km (4mi), then had trouble finding the small cairn marking the start of the rough path to the river crossing. Our experience was exactly that posted on peakware:
Description – by Dow Williams:
Mount Remus is part of the horseshoe shaped Fisher Range at the front end of Kananaskis Country in the Elbow-Sheep Wildland Provincial Park.
Kananaskis Country is a maze of provincial parks which encompasses over 4,000 square kilometers of foothills and mountains bordering Banff National Park in the central Canadian Rockies.
Mount Remus starts one end of the horseshoe and Mount Fullerton the other. In between lies Mount Romulus and Fisher Peak. Mount Remus was officially named in 1940 along with Mount Romulus after the legendary twin brothers and founders of Rome.
The only published route up Mount Remus is the moderate to difficult scramble up its eastern slopes to its summit block. The guide book determines the chimney up the center of the summit block to be difficult with an optional moderate approach from the north. I found the chimney did not present a difficult challenge and rate this scramble moderate at most.
The most challenging aspect of the day involves crossing the Little Elbow River. This aspect of the trip more than likely explains why there is no trail and few, if any, cairns, thus little evidence of any traffic up this mountain. …
read more on peakware
Most fun was screeing and glissading descents. Here’s my butt track after I discovered tobogganing was even easier.
more photos from this great day hike
related post – biking hiking Banded Peak, Alberta
hiking Mediterranean islands …
I’m ruminating on a series of hikes for this Fall:
Cinque Terre in northern Italy → Corsica → Sardinia → Sicily → …
I’d take ferries from one to the next, I assume.
Leave a comment if you have any advice for me. I’ve never hiked this region before.
hike the Bear’s Hump, Waterton
A classic day hike in southern Alberta is the Bear’s Hump, overlooking Waterton townsite.
My favourite memory was a race to the top when I was much younger and much more reckless.
We were showing off the beautiful Rockies to Kate, from Ottawa. She’s been happily married to this guy, ever since.
Rating – Moderate to difficult (but well worth it)!
Distance – Approximately 1.5 kilometers
Elevation Gain – 240 meters (787 feet) … oh yeah, this is steep!
Number of Switchbacks – 18
Duration – 20 minutes – 50 minutes one way (depending on the number of breaks you take).
The hike is short but steep and most people in fair condition can make it up in 40 minutes (even my Pekingese dog made it to the top).
Click through to see a map and slide show from a Fall hike on Scenic Travel Canada.
related post – Triple Crown Hikes in Waterton this summer
Lost City Trek, Colombia
Jessica Crump of GetUp&GoFilms sends us a link to a movie trip report.
Without question this is one of the best hikes in the world. In Spanish it’s called Ciudad Perdida.
5 days, 50 kilometers, Mountains, Jungle, Rivers…
Discover the sacred city of Tayuna in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta Colombia.
I was there about 15yrs-ago. Seems very little has changed.
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
details on our Lost City Trek information page
No independent trekking is allowed. Contact Sierra Tours for details on a guided adventure.
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