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Trekking Visions – best treks

Klaus & Sebastian are kindred spirits. Just weeks ago, they launched a terrific new site called Trekking Visions listing the world’s best hikes:

We are a team of two trekking lovers and we have a mission – to present you the best treks of the planet. Naturally it is an ongoing and never ending task but naturally this is part of the fun.

As of now this site is still in a very early stage with lots of data and information still missing. It’s quite an effort to collect all this and it will probably take the rest of 2007 to complete the site. So if you find the site to be a little premature you’re absolutely right – just give us a little time. Till then feel free to enjoy what we’ve prepared so far.

trekkingvisions – Home

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Check their photo galleries.

They plan to add a blog with RSS feed and I will be first to subscribe. For now I’ve linked to Trekking Visions under WEBSITES in the right hand navigation.

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unbelievable cloud photos

Last September we posted rare “Mammatus” cloud photos.

Many of those same pics are in a larger, better collection of cloud and wind photos posted by the always interesting Dark Roasted Blend photo blog.

If you love great sky vistas — and what hiker doesn’t — check out Mammatus, Lenticular & Other Extreme Clouds.

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great photos – Mono Andes

Mono Andes from Concepción, Chile is a big time outdoors photographer on flickr.

Here are just a few of his great photos.

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Volcano Villarrica

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Descanso

more Mono Andes HIGHLIGHT photos – flickr

He’s using every feature of flickr, including geotagging.

Here’s the map of his Araucanía photo set:

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You can see those photos and interact with the map on his Andes – Araucanía set page.

A couple more, to inspire a trip to Chile.

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nordic hiking vista – Besseggen, Norway

We’ve added a 6hr day hike — Besseggen, Norway — to our list of the best hikes in the world.

Besseggen, or Besseggi, is a mountain ridge in Vågå kommune in Oppland county.

The walk over Besseggen is one of the most popular mountain hikes in Norway. About 40 000 people walk this trip each year.

Besseggen – Wikipedia

Here’s the vista from the highpoint of the day.

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larger photo – flickr – saipal

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Tasmania, the Forgotten Island

This is the best introduction to Tasmania I’ve seen on-line. Superb photos!

It includes a hike on Freycinet Peninsula, one of the best hikes in the world.

Numerous walks are possible at Freycinet National Park, from one full day to a three to four day circuit, introducing each time more of the marvelous granite of the Hazards mountains which domineer the place.

I try to think of what place they remind me of, looking at the shape and color of the rocks, smelling the spiky shrubs on the trails. Corsica or some of the American West Coast mountain ranges come to my mind. And New Zealand of course.

Tasmania, the Forgotten Island — Tasmanie, l’île oubliée by La Tartine Gourmande

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should you hike China?

From the train, much of China looks “devastated”. The natural environment “ruined” by over population.

Why bother hiking there?

Actually, away from the train tracks there are still some large, beautiful tracts. You can see some of those undeveloped areas on the Walking the Wall blog. (The Great Wall divides the habitable from wilderness, for the most part.)

The mountains that skirt the Tibetan plateau will — some day — be one of the premiere hiking areas of the world.

And there’s much, much more.

Need inspiration? Dark Roasted Blend posted fantastic photos of wild China:

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more photos like this: Wonders of the Chinese Landscape

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trekking the Pyrenees – Andy Howell

A professional trip report, wonderful photos, on the Pyrenearn Haute Route was posted by big-time hiker Andy Howell. He’s just finished his HRP “Pyrenees project”.

The report starts on this page and continues on up the blog.

Andy obviously loves the region.

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Recommended guidebook – Pyrenearn Haute Route: High-Level Trail Through the Pyrenees (Cicerone)

(via Two-Heel Drive)

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Bluepeak.net – new blog

rogier.jpgFor years we’ve admired the work of Rogier Gruys, travel photographer from Vancouver, Canada.

His site — Bluepeak.net — has long been one of our favourites.

Now Rogier’s added a blog. We’ve subscribed to it from our RSS reader. And added a link under BLOGS in the right-hand navigation.

The URL — bluepeak.net/blog/.

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