Under 11 pounds base weight.
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1136 mile Ice Age Trail in Winter
Diggins and best friend Emily Ford started December 28th.
Finished 69 days later.
Emily is the only the second person on record to thru hike the Wisconsin trail in winter.
Creative camping was required as campgrounds are closed in winter. And parts of the official Ice Age Trail were closed.
They averaged 16.5 miles / walking day.
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42 days – Greater Patagonian Trail
I’m hoping to get back to Chile for a big chunk of the GPT in 2022.
Ideally, the 1000km section highlighted here by Martín Hurtado.
Founder of the trail, Jan Dudeck, feels sections GPT01 to GPT22 is the best long section for hikers.
If you want to learn more, download the constantly updated Hikers Manual on Dropbox.
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1,080km WINTER trek across Poland
On January 4, Lukasz Supergan started a 1,080km trek across his native Poland.
Beginning in the Izerskie Mountains, he combined several long trails so that he could hike across the Polish Mountains and end at the Ukrainian border. After 48 days and 16 hours, he reached the Bukowka Pass on the Bieszczady Mountains and finished his crossing. …
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I have a 2021 PCT Permit
BestHike editor Rick McCharles
I applied online during the first few minutes applications opened for sections 500 miles or longer.
BUT I reckon there’s less than a 50% chance I’ll actually get on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2021:
- could be cancelled due to COVID, as in 2020
- travel could be impossible due to COVID
- forest fires are often an issue
- might decide travel is unethical in 2021
BUT hope for the best, plan for the worst.
I’m hoping for at least 500 miles.
Starting mile 702 – Kennedy Meadows – starting July 10th heading north towards the Oregon border.
That’s good timing for the John Muir Trail, the best section of the PCT.
I watched Tim Seymour‘s excellent John Muir Trail northbound video for tips on how to get started on my way up to Whitney.
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BestHike #9 – Haute Route in the Alps
The Haute Route, from France to Switzerland, is one of our top 10 hikes in the world.
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Haute Route
Chamonix to Zermatt, Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn – in two weeks of mountain travel you will see the greatest collection of 4000 metre peaks in the Alps!
AT A GLANCE
- also known as the Walker’s High Route
- Alpine charm: valleys, lakes, glaciers
- great food, history, culture
- from Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Europe (4810m, 15,781ft)
- to the Matterhorn, the most beautiful peak in the alps
- 9-15 days
- 180+kms (112mi)
- best months June-Sept
- crosses 11 passes, gains more than 12,000m elevation
- difficult hiking
Read more on our Haute Route information page.
Wyoming’s Wind River Range Traverse
Tim Seymour put together a route higher and more adventurous than the adjacent Continental Divide Trail.
They got some weather.
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Click PLAY or watch a Google Earth flyover of their route on YouTube.
Fastpacking Iceland
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Winn and her husband Moth, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness, became homeless after a bad investment and decided to walk the 630-mile (1,010 km) South West Coast Path. …
In September 2019 it was the number one bestselling book in UK independent bookstores.
An excellent read.
The couple had not hiked for decades. Pretty much everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
And they survived on an income of about £40 a week.
related – Couple walked 630 miles and lived in a tent after bad investment left them homeless
PCT – This is not a beautiful hiking video
Peter Hochhauser put together a wonderful video of his 2016 PCT Trail.
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