Best hikes, treks, tramps in the world.
Scott announced the cool new site – Peakery.com
Featuring over 150,000 peaks from around the globe. Find peaks by browsing lists, maps, and photos.
Use peakery to envision your next peak objective with photos, trip reports, stats, and maps. Then get out there and bag it.
peakery is the place to log your summits. Add trip details, triumphant summit photos, and get summit badges.
Check it out – Peakery.com
The two most popular trailheads are:
1. Kathleen Lake
2. A’äy Chù Trailhead on Kluane Lake
A larger version (PDF) with established trails is available via the Parks Canada web page. Here’s a screenshot:
Best established hikes are:
1. Kathleen Lake
– Cottonwood Trail
– King’s Throne
2. A’äy Chù Trailhead
– Slim’s River West (trip)
– Sheep Creek
– Bullion Plateau
I drove out to look at the Dän Zhu (Donjek Route) trailhead. It looked pretty harsh. (Trip report.) I’m not so sure I’m up for that.
Kluane National Park Hiking Guide by Vivien Lougheed.
Leave a comment if you have other best hikes in this Park.
This version includes more than 30’000 peak names. The application contains a complete topographic model of the USA West including the states:
Arizona
California
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
North and South Dakota
Oregon
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
The also have one for the Alps.
Thanks Don Eckert.
… Tune in to bird songs by training yourself with this free app. Select your region to see the birds that are commonly heard there. You can sort the birds by name, how commonly they are seen, or their song style and listen to each bird’s unique tweets. The app also provides a picture of each bird to make spotting nearby tweeters easier.
She likes.
In the Sierra Nevada the Hiking Lady compared USGS topo with Tom Harrison maps and the new National Geographic Trails Software.
… On the trail, I found I much preferred the National Geographic and Tom Harrison maps to the USGS maps. They are well labeled and trail distances are clearly marked. The National Geographic map definitely proved to the best.
Here’s why. After we set up camp near Garnet Lake, the next day we decided to take a look around and head to Thousand Island Lake. Using just the USGS and Tom Harrison maps, we plotted a route up to the saddle to take a look at Thousand Island Lake. However, as you can see in the maps below, the National Geographic map has the additional detail that shows that there is a trail from Garnet Lake to Thousand Island Lake! …
USGS – Garnet Lake Topo
Tom Harrison Map – nice shaded relief, but no trail!
National Geographic Map – the only one that includes the trail!
Additionally, the shading on the map gave me a good perspective on elevation, so I didn’t need to spend so much time counting contour lines!
I am quite impressed with the software program. The cost is $49.95 for the entire Sierra Nevada range (10 map regions), so it is definitely more cost effective than buying each map individually.
Bottom line: The National Geographic Trails Software impressed me, and I will be purchasing it for other region where I hike.
read the review
New Zealand Track Profiles (NZTP)
Outdoor route planning made easy
New Zealand Track Profiles (NZTP) provides a comprehensive solution to route planning for the New Zealand outdoors:
Elevation profiles for ALL walking tracks in New ZealandHigh resolution 3D topography covering the WHOLE of New Zealand with all the essential details and features normally found only in printed maps. Each map sheet has equivalent area coverage as the corresponding commercial paper map.
Comprehensive track statistics which describe the characteristics of each track and its level of difficulty.
Navigation aids in the form of GPS and Google Earth files, for each track in the map sheet.
Each map sheet is available as a set of two ZIP files which can be downloaded independently.
Some of the 12,000 tracks are free. The rest cost a maximum of $2. … Cheap.
I’m thinking of returning to New Zealand for hiking next year. It’s our #1 hiking destination in the world.
trip report by site editor Rick McCharles
On July 12th I hiked the most scenic section of the East Coast Trail in Newfoundland.
Weather was perfect. I started at 8:20 AM at North Head, Bay Bulls.
From the top of this lighthouse I could almost see Europe …
… Perhaps it was only Iceland.
This section of the ECT is mostly impassible headlands. I never once touched the Atlantic ocean.
In 8hrs I saw 6 multi-day hikers, 2 day-hikers … and one rabbit.
The sea stacks, crowded with noisy birds, were the most impressive geological feature.
I stopped for brunch at The Spout, a fresh water geyser.
Stark beauty.
My original plan was to run / hike 46+ km, all the way to the eastern most point of North America, Cape Spear.
However, the trail was much tougher and more overgrown than I expected. I ended up running only about 20% of the time.
At the liquor store in Petty Harbour …
… I phoned for a pick-up.
My East Coast Trail (33km) was finished. For now.
See the rest of my photos from the East Coast Trail.
official website – East Coast Trail
Hiking guidebooks and maps are available.
That’s what Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch is calling it.
… Google Earth released a new edition of its desktop app which hikers, runners and cyclists are going to love. They call it Google Earth 5.2. I call it the Hiker’s Edition.
One of the new features allows you to recreate the path of a hike or bike ride by ingesting geo-data from one of your GPS devices. The visualizations show you the speed, elevation, and other stats from your hike, which you can see as an animation inside Google Earth. …
read more on TechCrunch
This video features an example of the new track feature in Google Earth 5.2, showing a bike route to work. Download the latest version of Google Earth …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
If you’re looking for a GPS for hiking in North America, this add-on will soon be available for about $180.
The GPS Navigation & Battery Cradle provides a complete navigation solution for the iPod touch, including the NavAtlas® turn-by-turn navigation app with TTS technology, and the latest U.S. and Canada maps.
Click PLAY or watch a demo on YouTube.
The Cradle features a built-in GPS Receiver, Rechargeable Battery, Amplified Speaker, Audio Out connection and Mini USB port. An Adjustable Windshield Mount is included for in-car use.
The Cradle, which resembles a thin battery case, is super portable and can be used for in-car navigation (with the provided fully adjustable windshield mount) as well as for handheld use. The built-in GPS receiver provides GPS data to most location-based apps. The NavAtlas app, which works exclusively with the Cradle, will be available on the iTunes App Store for free.
Will the next generation Touch have GPS built in?
Wow.
The Best iPhone 3.0 Beta app award at the Apple Design Awards last week is for trekkers.
Rave review … at least if you hike in certain parts of the U.S.A.:
… I haven’t used the application on a hike yet, but the mapping content on the application is very rich, and you can see what the surface of the terrain looks like. The drawbacks are you can’t zoom in as far as the iPhone Google Earth application lets you, and it doesn’t use the iPhone’s auto-tilt function to move to another part of the map like Google Earth does.
AccuTerra lets you share your outdoor experiences with others via Facebook and email. You can post a link of your trek to your Facebook profile or email a link to family and friends that includes the route you traveled and pictures you took along the way. …
Intermap created AccuTerra to fill the void of the modern-day GPS: off-road mapping. Though GPS does a “wonderful job on the road,” acknowledged Thomas, it’s not as useful “once you get to the end of the pavement.” The application also has a library of maps of U.S. national state parks and forests for each state. It had an extensive list of popular hiking and biking trails in the Bay Area, including my favorites, Alum Rock Park and Rancho San Antonio County Park. …
GigaOm – For Hikers, Bikers & Trekkers, Accuterra a Must Have iPhone App
You can get a better idea of how it works on the official mobile AccuTerra website.
Or watch a short introduction video on YouTube.
More video tutorials.
I think I’ll try it if and when I get an iPhone. That might be SOON.
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