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how to get into hiking

Amanda Zeisset of Adventure Junkies posted a good list for beginners:

4. Every Time I’ve Tried Hiking I End Up Getting Blisters, How Do I Prevent Them?

14. What’s The Best Way To Treat Water?

17. I’m Out Of Shape & Not Fit Enough To Hike For Long Hours, Where Should I Start?

19. None Of My Friends Are Outdoorsy, How Do I Find People To Go Hiking With?

HOW TO GET INTO HIKING – THE 19 MOST COMMON QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Click through to see them all. With answers. 🙂

Leave a comment on that site if you’ve an opinion.

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top 10 treks in the world – 5 months?

Want a grand challenge?

We are looking for an adventurer to try to complete our top 10 hikes of the world in one continuous walking holiday.

We reckon you could start in June and comfortably finish in November with this itinerary:

Top-10+ Ausangate Circuit, Peru
+ West Coast Trail, BC, Canada
+ Sunshine to Assiniboine, Alberta, Canada
+ Glacier North Circle, Montana, USA
+ John Muir Trail, California, USA
+ Haute Route (Chamonix-Zermatt), Alps
+ Otter Trail, South Africa
+ Everest Base Camp / 3 Passes, Nepal
+ Tongariro Northern Circuit, New Zealand
+ Overland Track, Tasmania

That’s one round-the-world extravaganza!

Throw in  the Huayhuash Circuit in Peru, at the beginning for extra bragging rights.

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151 best Backpacking & Hiking sites

As chosen by Happy to Survive.

Some of my personal favourites are listed. As well as BestHike.com. Twice! 🙂

4. Alastair Humphreys

21. Florida Hikes

36. Hike Bike Travel

37. Hiking in Finland

52. Our Hiking Blog

67. The Hiking Life

106. Trailspotting

 

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(via Adventure Blog)

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top 10 coastal hikes worldwide?

by site editor Rick McCharles

updated April 2016

But what are the best coastal hikes anywhere?

Top-10#1) West Coast Trail, BC Canada
#2) Otter Trail, South Africa
#3) Abel Tasman Track, New Zealand
#4) Lost Coast Trail, California
#5) Thorsborne Trail, Australia
#7) Kalalau Trail, Kauai, Hawaii
#8) Pembrokeshire Coast Path, U.K. 
#9) South Coast Track, Tasmania
10) Great Ocean Walk, Australia

Leave a comment if you have more to add to this list.

Canada’s West Coast Trail is so popular that many other alternatives have been developed nearby:

What about Canada’s east coast?

I’ve still yet to hike all of the Shipwreck Coast Trail (Rialto Beach to Shi Shi Beach) in Washington State.

Hiking is so popular and so well developed in the U.K. that there are many alternatives to the Pembrokeshire:

  • South West Coast Path
  • Cleveland Way
  • Norfolk Coast Path
  • Fife Coastal Path
  • Arran Coastal Way
  • Ayrshire Coastal Path
  • Anglesey Coastal Path
  • Causeway Coast Way
  • Lecale Way

In Italy there are some classic short walks suggested by Andrea:

Other recommended in the past:

Australia must have more coastal hiking than any nation in the world. There are many good candidates including:

Personally, I liked the Queen Charlotte Track in New Zealand even better than the Abel Tasman.

And the Fisherman’s Trail, Rota Vicentina, Portugal is high on my personal life list.

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related – Adventure Junkies – TOP 11 BEST COASTAL HIKES FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO ENJOY IN 2016

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wikiexplora Best Hikes of the World

wikiexplora reviewed 9 top hiking books:

  • Book 1: A Journey along the World’s Great Treks by Jeff Salvage and Kirk Markus

Top-10

From those, they arrived at their own top 10:

1 Chile Torres del Paine Trek, Patagonia
2 Perú Inca Trail
3 Tanzania Mt. Kilimanjaro
4 France-Italy-Switzerland Haute Route
5 Nepal Everest Base Camp
6 New Zealand Routeburn track, Fiordland-Mount Aspiring Nationals Parks, South Island
7 Pakistan Snow Lake/Biafo-Hispar/Lupke La Region
8 Pakistan Baltoro glacier / Concordia
8 India Zanskar river, Ladakh
10 USA Kaibab trail, Grand Canyon (Rim-to-Rim), Arizona

I wouldn’t consider their methodology foolproof. Just because the Inca Trail is famous, doesn’t mean it’s one of the top hiking experiences of the world.

Only the Haute Route and Everest are on our top 10 list.

Still, it’s worth clicking through. Check the next 40 hikes as well as honourable mentions.

Best Treks and Hikes of the World, Top 100 (Methodology)

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Michael Lanza’s top 10 U.S. hikes

#1 A Grand Tour of Yosemite

#2 Northern Glacier National Park

#3 Teton Crest Trail

#4 Zion’s Narrows

#5 John Muir Trail

#6 Royal Arch Loop, Grand Canyon

#7 The Southern Olympic Coast

#8 Spider Gap-Buck Creek Pass Loop, Glacier Peak Wilderness

#9 Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains

#10 Timberline Trail, Mount Hood

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Michael Lanza was for many years was the Northwest Editor of Backpacker Magazine. He edits The Big Outside hiking blog.

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besthike views and visitors

Looks like 2015 will see the most traffic ever to this site.

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The goal, however, is not to generate the most page views. But rather to maintain a list of the best hikes in the world. This is a resource for hikers planning future adventures.

Check two other best hike lists:

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hiking glossary

mother nature – examples:

dirtbag — a subculture consisting of ski bums, vagabonds and climbers well practiced in the ways of avoiding work, while spending as much time as possible pursuing their outdoor passions. …

holloway — a sunken path worn down due to foot traffic, rain and erosion that has fallen significantly below the vegetative banks on each side. …

krummholz — bent, stunted trees found in mountainous and arctic regions, twisted by steady winds and short growing seasons. …

verglas — a thin coating of ice that forms on rocks overnight, or when snow melts and then refreezes. …

A beginner’s glossary to hiking and camping

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