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Reserve a Campsite Online


Camping Blogger has a series of excellent posts for those planning future adventures in the USA.

The Internet has been a real boon for people trying to find campgrounds with open campsites available. Online reservations sites, like Reserve America and Reservations.Gov Recreation.gov, allow you to find a campground by proximity to a city, town, or popular attraction. Let’s see what we can find around Monterey, California – one of the more popular destinations in Northern California, in the next two weeks. …

read the rest of this post – How to Reserve a Campsite Online

New to me was the use of Google Maps to check the exact location of specific campsites.

Sunset Beach, Google™ Maps
Sunset Beach, Google™ Maps

Good idea.

Related Camping Blogger posts:

  • Camping Next Year? Start Planning Now
  • Find Great Campsites Online
  • Choosing the Best Campsite

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    you found the new besthike blog!


    I’ve been unable to find a way to redirect every individual blog post from my old host to the same post on the new host.

    I guess I will need to send every visitor to any page on the old site to the home page of this one.

    Still, you and others are finding it here on WordPress.

    THANKS.

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    unique visitors since this site was moved

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    redirecting from the OLD blog

    I want to steer people from the OLD blog:

    https://besthike.com/blog/

    … to this, the NEW blog:

    https://besthike.wordpress.com/

    I tried a WordPress plugin called Redirection.

    It’s working for the home page. But I really need to redirect the individual pages, as well. Leave a comment if you have any advice for me.

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    where to hike in New Zealand

    Looking at a trip to our #1 hiking destination in the world?

    There are HEAPS of choices for tramping there.

    A good starting point for browsing your options is Photodiary of a Nomad. They’ve done New Zealand.

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    These trips were taken September 2004 through April 2005.

    WOW!

    Click through to their index page – Tramping the Land of the Long White Cloud

    The best guidebook by far is Lonely Planet Tramping in New Zealand.

    related – our list of the best hikes in New Zealand

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    LittlePo climbing Aconcagua

    Having already played enough in Alaska, climbing blogger Szu-ting has announced a trip to the highest mountain outside Asia over New Year’s Eve.

    … its elevation is 22,841 feet (6,962 m). My biggest worry is therefore altitude sickness. Right now I can still remember the tears I dropped on Denali; I had to turn around from the summit at 19,400 feet because my body couldn’t receive well executed commands from an oxygen-deprived brain. Aconcagua is higher than Denali and much higher. I know that Denali might have higher physiological altitude, due to its higher latitude (see reference 1) and I know that previous high attitude experience does not necessarily imply how my body will react upon my next encounter; however, every time I think about this climb, I can’t help but keep telling myself “remember to drink water, breathe more, and you can always turn around.” …

    LittlePo

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    larger size – flickr – winkyintheuk

    She’s NOT planning to descend with the 2700m south face in 5min on skis with parachute like this guy.

    I’d much rather hike Aconcagua.

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    Industrial & Urban Trekking

    Baytown Bert from Texas has a personal fitness blog with an interesting twist:

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    Industrial & Urban Trekking is using available resources to climb and hike a series of obstacles in the form of hills, bridges, stairs and ladders in the workplace and your neighborhood/city to promote good fitness and health.

    He calls this “IndyTrekking“.

    (It sounds a little like a hiker’s version of Parkour / Free Running.)

    Beautiful cool and sunny weather beckoned me to climb the towers and reactors today. I did a level two, which entails climbing three towers/structures, walking a half mile, climbing three more structures and finishing with another half mile walk.

    It felt great as I finished in fifty-five minutes and today, I feel invigorated due to yesterdays exertion. We have the same weather today, so maybe I’ll attempt a level three, which adds two more structures for a total of ten evolutions.

    Knocking out a Level Two

    I love it.

    Industrial & Urban Trekking – blog

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    every hiker should have a blog

    If you hike, you should share your photos and trip report with the world.

    Popular blogger Tom Mangan gives the pitch:

    … Heck, if John Muir were alive to day, he would have a blog. How do I know? Because the only thing as voluminous as Muir’s backcountry travels was the volume of his writings documenting them. Muir was eloquent, passionate and observant, and obsessive about writing it all down. If you are any or all of these things, why not put ‘em to good use and share with the world? …

    The case for starting your own hiking blog

    Tom followed up with a second post: How to start a hiking blog

    Read that. Or jump directly to WordPress.com.

    It’s free. It’s easy. You will have your own hiking blog within 10min.

    I’d recommend that blogging platform to John Muir too. It’s the same open source software running this site. And the same used by Tom.

    Here’s a (somewhat dated) 4min introduction to how to start your own WordPress blog. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.