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Whistler Ski Resort is a cycling mecca in the summer.
There’s something for everyone within a very short radius.
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Rockin’ Ronnie and I thoroughly enjoyed the medium difficulty network around Lost Lake. (The one short black trail we tried was too technical.)
A great day. Next time we plan to try the easier downhill tracks off the ski lift. 🙂
GearJunkie contributing editor Jeff Kish is hiking the 1,200-mile Pacific Northwest Trail this summer.
Check one of Jeff’s photo rich trip reports – Alone With Lions: Thru-Hiking The ‘PNT’
Thanks Kolby.
Morry Banes surveyed hiking bloggers with a simple question:
What’s the no.1 tool for your hikes?
I like this answer better than my own:
Chad Poindexter from Sticksblog.com:
In my opinion, the “no. 1 tool for hikes” (for anyone) is the tool between their ears.
Before anyone steps out for a hike, a backpacking trip, or anything in which they will be away from immediate help, one should take the time to learn about what they are getting themselves into.
Look at maps, at weather forecasts, and how much use the area gets. …
read the rest – Experts Roundup – What’s the no.1 tool for your hikes?
A short video showing some of the highlights of our traverse of Iceland during the summer of 2014. It took us 21 days to cross about 500km from the northern shore at Hraunhafnartangi to the southern coast at Skogar. …
We had 2 food parcels on the route – one in myvatn and another in landmannnalaugar. This meant the maximum amount of food we had to carry was 12 days giving a backpack weight of between 15 and 25kgs. We also got caught in a storm in the highlands midway through and had to use our SPOT device to get picked up by Iceland’s amazing Search and Rescue volunteers …
(via Hiking in Finland)
Grizzly gets right of way.
7-days of continuous physical and mental challenge, almost no sleep, bad food, questionable water. Who invented this sport? 🙂
To stagger the start of Expedition Idaho, Race Director Dave Adlard, set a unique prologue.
Teams had to climb the toughest waterslide, starting over if anyone slipped.
If successful, they then took a victory lap … running the Lazy River. Backwards. 🙂
This is even tougher than it looks.
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Good luck.
Leor Pantilat seems to have invented his own high Sierra route:
The Roof of Yosemite Loop travels to the highest point in Yosemite National Park on 13,114 ft Mount Lyell and also includes ascents of 12,900 ft Mount Maclure (5th highest in the park) and 12,561 ft Mount Florence (9th highest in the park). …
The Roof of Yosemite Loop combines many of the highlights of this region into an aesthetic and highly scenic loop. …
That looks one wild and challenging adventure. 🙂
I believe I saw this linked from Hiking in Finland.
The plan is simple – to be a part of the world’s first group to walk across the northern part of the island from east to west, entirely on foot, a distance of almost 400 km, in the seemingly impossible timeframe of three weeks. …
Days pass by as we trek west. We camp in rural villages – usually on patchy football fields where, night after night, hundreds of curious children and adults alike surround us, amazed at the presence of a ‘Vaza’, a white ghost – the Malagasy term for westerners. They haven’t seen many before. In fact, in this part of Madagascar, away from the tourist trail in the south, the last foreigners that have entered the foothills of the Tsaratanana were the French army in the late 1940s and occasional mineral prospectors in the 1970s. …
At exactly the half way point of the journey, after almost two hundred kilometers of uphill slogging, we reach the summit of Maromokotro, Madagascar’s highest mountain. …
read more – Adventure Travel: Madagascar
(via Hiking in Finland)
Eric Leifer of National Geographic Young Explorers :
Fiordland National Park, tucked away far within New Zealand’s South Island, has the notorious claim to fame as one of the wettest locations in the southern hemisphere; and with a mean annual rainfall of 268 inches …
Throw yourself off the deep end by accepting the challenge of the country’s hardest trail, the infamous Dusky Track, an 84-kilometer route that impossibly forces its way through this impermeable landscape. …
Here are the stats – Dying at the Grand Canyon
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