Best hikes, treks, tramps in the world.
From Reykyavik, Iceland …
It’s an incredible place, surrounded by an unrelenting and spectacular landscape that might only be described as an ice-age Wyoming.
As harsh as that might sound , the single emotion that came back in my luggage from Iceland with me was none other than jealousy.
Jason Klass put up a beta version of a site dedicated to video.
His most recent video is one of great interest to me personally.
A great slide show of the trip Ben2World, Dusty Boots, and Jason Klass took to Canyonlands National Park. Witness Jason’s dirty Jeep and his heroic leap across an eight-foot canyon! This was a great trip and we saw lots of geological and archaeological wonders.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Salt Creek Canyon, Utah – BackpackingVideos.com
(via Two-Heel Drive)
This is a good start. No doubt hiking videos and photo slideshows will become increasingly popular in the future.
But the best site I know is Outdoor Video Magazine out of Canada. I linked to their Mt. Robson / Berg Lake video.
WOW.
I want to go to Alaska.
It’s well worth taking the time to see the professional slideshow of these photos. These are only “thumbnails” of the real thing.
Stumbled upon Wild Things Photography, found many pretty pictures. The shooter is John Hyde of Juneau, Alaska.
I was in town for the Moab Photo Symposium.
Talking to some of the attendees reminded me of the difference between real photographers and myself. They are willing to WAIT for the right shot.
(I merely take pictures of whatever happens along while I am hiking.)
Still, the gap between real photographers and the rest of us is narrowing due to the decreased cost of digital equipment.
Check out their 2006 photo contest winners.
Love hiking but tied to your computer?
Erik Goetze can help.
He’s posted over 500 Quicktime VR panoramas of famous North American hikes on his Virtual Parks website.
You need special software on your computer in order to watch them. But the 360 degree images work on most modern computers.
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My buddy George painstakingly “sewed” together many photos from our travels together in Peru 2005.
These are BIG images. For example, this low resolution pic from Ausangate is 500 pixels wide. But the original panorama is 3157 pixels wide!
Panoramas are ideal for print publications who can benefit from that kind of resolution.
See the rest of George’s panorama photos. (You need a high speed internet connection.) There are some great Machu Picchu dawn photos.
And check our Ausangate Circuit information page. It’s our favourite hike in Peru.
Photography By Jim M. Goldstein
One of my fondest memories after hiking through 30 miles of the Pacific Coast Trail through Crater Lake National Park was emerging to see this view. So calm and so serene this sunrise view is one of my personal favorites.
A larger version can be seen in my gallery Daybreak At Crater Lake
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon – Wikipedia
Tom Kotynski of the Out There With Tom blog posted a great photo.
I love unique and bizarre trees.
Mark Hertenstein examines a snow-whipped tree. That’s Highwood Baldy, our destination, in the background.
Leave a comment if you have other great tree photos to share.
Andy from Germany while in New Zealand:
I found this toilet when I was camping at the start of the Cass saddle track and thought it would make a nice picture …
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To get away from the crappy Canadian Spring weather, I’m considering a trip down to Moab.
Last year when I hiked out of Page, Arizona seemed every hiker I met recommended Moab.
Leave a comment if you have any advice for a stranger to town.
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