Raising awareness of the loss of wildlife and wild lands across Africa.
Chaz Powell, Emilie Gorse and Justin True walked the length of the Mangoky River in Madagascar, covering some 800 km (497 miles) in the process. …
Family of 6 hikes Appalachian Trail
20 years after her first Appalachian hike, Jamie, her husband Chris, and their four daughters, Maya,13, Harper, 11, Josie, 8, and Sabina, 6, camped in snow, and hiked across rivers and up mountains, all with blistered toes and homework assignments to complete. …
6-year-old Sebastopol girl breaks hiking record with family on Appalachian Trail
Click PLAY or watch them on Twitter.
New Zealand’s Te Araroa track – new book
PCT documentary – “Elevation Change” with Sam Fox
Sam Fox sets out to break a trail running speed record on the Pacific Crest Trail, and to raise money in honour of his mother’s Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis.
It doesn’t take long before Sam realizes he’s in way over his head.
Scott Williamson, already 17 days ahead of Sam on the trail, is also attempting a new record, but for very different reasons.
The full documentary will be available VOD on October 1st.
Click PLAY or watch the trailer on Vimeo.
Collegiate Loop – 160 Miles in the high Colorado Rockies
… The route travels around the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, using two of Colorado’s best known trails, the Colorado Trail (CT) and the Continental Divide Trail (CDT).
The CT is known as the Collegiate East and the CDT is the Collegiate West.
The trail passes by a dozen 14,000-foot summits along the way while traveling through a mix of high forests and alpine terrain. …
The Collegiate Loop: 160 Miles Around the Heart of the Colorado Rockies
Justin’s Pacific Northwest Trail
Justin:
The Pacific Northwest Trail resonated with me: rugged, rough, remote. I became somewhat (ok, totally) obsessed with the idea of hiking it. And in 2 weeks I’ll be starting the trail …
The PNT has all the things I love about backpacking: navigation challenges, undeveloped sections, bushwacking and solitude (I have a hiking partner, I won’t go full Castaway on you). The length is perfect for my three month timeframe …
(fewer) than 300 people have completed the trail since its inception in 1977. …
How Did I Get Here?
Unbounded – Greater Patagonia Trail documentary
“Unbounded” shows the beauty, the cultural richness but also the challenges of this trail network. I highly recommend watching this work of art to all prospective hikers as part of their preparation.
— Jan Dudeck (creator of GPT)
Four young people who didn’t know each other at the start hiked 4 months on the Greater Patagonia Trail in Chile.
Only one had much experience hiking.
They made plenty of mistakes. Carried huge packs. At the start they could only manage about 7km / day.
The Greater Patagonia Trail is a route, not a trail. It’s unsigned. It’s wilderness. It’s very challenging.
Despite many, many problems, the documentary turned out to be quite entertaining. I recommend it.
Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.
I watched on Amazon Prime. But it is available on other video streaming sites.
The Greater Patagonian Trail … is HARD
The 1,900-mile-long thru-hike winds through the southern Andes from Santiago to the climbing mecca of Mount Fitzroy. To complete it, adventurers need a lot more than physical stamina.
In late 2017, I contacted explorer and (Swiss) German engineer Jan Dudeck, who was just completing a decade-long quest to create a new long trail through South America. The Greater Patagonian Trail (GPT), as he named it, would come to be 1,900 miles, stretching through the southern Andes from Santiago to the Argentinean climbing mecca of Mount Fitzroy.
“This trail rewards the humble,” Dudeck replied in his e-mail to me, “and humiliates the proud.” …
I set out on my own GPT attempt in the summer of 2017. I quickly learned that Dudeck’s creation bears little resemblance to the famous thru-hikes of the U.S. …
It’s still a very rare occurrence to meet other GPT hikers. …
Outside – The Quest to Complete the Greater Patagonian Trail
walking the Keystone XL pipeline route
When writer Ken Ilgunas set out to walk the 1,700-mile proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline and talk to the people he met there, he expected challenging debates about climate change, energy security and national sovereignty. In researching his new book, “Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland,” he expected to experience the wisdom of the people and decipher the pipe’s symbolic meaning. He expected enlightenment.
Instead, he found a country we wish were just a caricature: an America that does not actually value debate, or enlightenment, or wisdom at all. …
Ilgunas is a very interesting and thoughtful writer.
He’s personally against the pipeline.
I listened to an interview on the Backpacker Radio podcast.
The Keystone Pipeline System is an oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States, commissioned in 2010 and now owned solely by TransCanada Corporation. It runs from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta to refineries in Illinois and Texas, and also to oil tank farms and an oil pipeline distribution center in Cushing, Oklahoma. …
… The proposed Keystone XL (sometimes abbreviated KXL, with XL standing for “export limited” Pipeline (Phase IV) would connect the Phase I-pipeline terminals in Hardisty, Alberta, and Steele City, Nebraska by a shorter route and a larger-diameter pipe. …
Hikertrash: Life on the Pacific Crest Trail
I did enjoy this entertaining trip report published 2014.
Carl and Erin decide — on a bit of a whim — to thru-hike the PCT.
Through blisters and shin splints, jaw-dropping landscapes and craptastically unspectacular forests, searing heat and pouring rain, complete hilarity and utter exhaustion, this is the story of what day-to-day life is really like on one of America’s greatest trails.
As told through Hummingbird’s journal entries, this is the story of life on the trail – the people you meet, the things you see, and how,mile by mile, you eventually become Hikertrash. …
What Is Hikertrash?
Hikertrash: a long distance hiker, shabby and homeless in appearance, rarely bathed and rank in odor, more at home outdoors than in society, with a deep reverence and respect for all things wild.
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