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Tongariro Crossing, New Zealand
One of the best day hikes in the world.
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Tongariro Northern Circuit — including the Crossing — is even better.
best hikes Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
Zach Urness, Statesman Journal:
While occasionally spectacular during the depths of winter, it’s the spring months of April, May and June when the Gorge reaches its scenic peak.
Blooms of wildflowers, roaring waterfalls, panoramic viewpoints and mossy forest combine to offer singular hiking experiences up and down the national scenic area.
To get you prepared for the season, I’ve put together a list of the 13 best overall hikes the Gorge has to offer, in consultation with the Friends of the Columbia River Gorge.
As ever, it’s important to remember that hiking during the week or early in the morning is highly recommended. The Gorge becomes as crowded as shopping malls in many places on weekend afternoons.
Best 13 hikes of the Columbia River Gorge
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best hikes of the world – Tongariro Circuit
The Tongariro Circuit in New Zealand is one of our top 10 hikes in the world.
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Sunset Crater, Arizona
trip report by site editor Rick McCharles
Climbing to the rim has been closed for decades. Hikers were doing too much damage.
I did the partly wheelchair accessible 1-mile (1.6km) trail Lava Flow Trail and some of the 1-mile (1.6km) Lenox Crater Trail. Both were snowy.
But if you are passing anywhere close to Flagstaff, Arizona, any time of the year. I recommend you make this stop. The Visitor Center is excellent.
The date of the eruptions that formed the 340-meter-high cone (1,120 ft) was initially derived from tree-ring dates, suggesting the eruption began between the growing seasons of A.D. 1064–1065. However, more recent geologic and archaeological evidence places the eruption around A.D. 1085. …
On the same road trip visit nearby Wupatki National Monument.
If you book in advance, Rangers offer guided hikes from October through April. Anywhere from two hours to two days.
Kilimanjaro’s Machame Route
Flying over Iceland
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As exciting as that looks, first take a reality check – click over to the Across Iceland Journal Day 5.
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climbing Mt. Bisoke, Rwanda
In my experience there are few places with less horizontal ground than Rwanda, which truly earns its nickname of “Le Pays de Milles Collines” (the land of a thousand hills). The third-highest of those approximately thousand hills, at 3,711 meters (12,175 feet), is known alternatively as Mt. Visoke or Mt. Bisoke, and is the subject of this trip report. …
My experience in Rwanda was that a guide was always required. For everything. Car safaris, gorilla trekking, even short 2 mile hikes to see some waterfalls in the rainforest. While this goes very much against the independent, take-care-of-yourself-in-the woods attitude of myself and, I would imagine, the majority of the users of this site, there’s really not a lot you can do about it. Embrace it – even if a guide is completely unnecessary, they will certainly have more knowledge about the local plants, animals, and people than you can possibly hope to retain. So ask lots of questions, tip well, and enjoy. …
Summit Post – Hiking in the Virungas – Mt. Bisoke
related – A journalist’s gruelling hike to the summit of mighty Mount Bisoke (2015)
trouble climbing Mt Adams
Veteran climbing guide Dave Adlard led some new mountaineers on a climb of Mt Adams, Washington.
Thousands climb it every year.
The weather went bad.
“If you haven’t figured it out already we’re not going up. We need to get the hell off this mountain alive.” as our guide and friend, David Adlard, said to us at six in morning.
Read the entertaining trip report on Mtn Talk – Mt. Adams: Get Down Alive
Greater Patagonian Trail update
GearJunkie:
The Greater Patagonian Trail (GPT) is 1,300 miles long and counting. It is a growing network of backroads and rutted trails stitched together to form an enormous route across South America, and almost nobody knows about it.
That’s because it’s been built quietly, the entire route put together by one couple who hope to share a love of hiking with the world.
At 1,300 Miles, Remote ‘GPT’ Is Longest Trail In South America
I met Swiss-German hiker and explorer Jan Dudeck and his Chilean wife Meylin Ubilla last January. And hope to get back to Patagonia again in 2017.
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