Best hikes, treks, tramps in the world.
I’m liking the layout.
Mostly Utah. But looking to expand to the best western States.
Check a sample – Mt Timpanogos Summit (via Aspen Grove)
Stats, Elevation Profile, Popularity, “Followability”, Photos, Directions.
Not bad. 🙂
There are some dead end pages. (e.g. Idaho) … I could do without those.
And there’s no RSS feed. So no easy way for me to know about new hikes. I’m not likely to return very often.
Thank Adam Gilbert, James Meyer and Donna Coleman for the new online resource.
Joost Schreve – Founder & CEO EveryTrail:
It is with great pleasure that I can today announce that EveryTrail has been acquired by TripAdvisor, an operating company of Expedia, the world’s largest travel company. The official press release can be found here …
read more on the EveryTrail blog
I’ve personally not used EveryTrail, but have been keeping up with it via Tom Mangan. Read his take on the acquisition on Two-Heel Drive.
If it brings hiking more into the mainstream, I’m for it.
Governor Charlie Crist declared February Florida Hiking Trails Month.
I’ve been shopping (unsuccessfully) for a cheap flight Calgary to Hawaii. … But I may need to change my focus to the Sunshine State.
The best starting place in deciding where to go is the Florida Hikes blog and FloridaHikes.com.
I know what you’re thinking. Florida is pretty flat.
But there are some wilderness attractions.
That question was posed on the latest internet darling website, Quora.
Some of the answers:
Tongariro Crossing – New Zealand
Yosemite Falls – California, USA
Sentiero Azzuro – Cinque Terre, Italy
Table Mountain – Cape Town, South Africa
Many Glacier – Montana, USA
Uluru, Kata Tjuta, and Kings Canyon – Northern Territory, Australia
Corsica – France
Caledon Natural Area – Virginia, USA
Zion Narrows, Utah
Silverback Gorilla hike in Rwanda
Half-Dome, California
Great Wall of China – Simatai to Jinshanling
Havasupai, Arizona
Dubrovnik, Croatia up Mt Srd to the Napoleonic fort
hike the Macedonian side of Lake Ohrid
Cerro Chato in Costa Rica
Rim to rim, Grand Canyon
Yosemite FallsSuggest
Avalanche Pass, Adirondacks, New York
Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa
Corsica, France
Sentiero Azzuro, Cinque Terre, Italy
Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
You can weigh in with your own answers on Quora.
Here’s Table Mountain …
You can climb up, take the cable car down.
Marco Nef from Switzerland alerted me to their excellent and unique website on the famed 220mi traverse.
Each page of the trip report is synchronously bilingual: German and English.
The Coast-To-Coast trail goes from St.Bees at the west coast all the way to Robin Hood’s Bay at the east coast. …
check it out at coast-to-coast.ch
It’s also known as the Coast to Coast Walk.
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.
Camping Tourist has a post somewhat misnamed – 10 America’s Most Spectacular Day Hikes
I like their choices, however.
Mt. Katahdin, Baxter State Park, MaineCoyote Gulch, Escalante Subdistrict, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Naples, Florida
Grayson Highlands State Park, Virginia
Lost Coast, King Range National Conservation Area, Northern California
Maroon Bells Snowmass Wilderness, White River National Forest, Colorado
Mount St. Helens, Washington
Na Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Kauai, Hawaii
Wrangell St Elias National Park, Kennecott District, Alaska
Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California
click through for details and photos – America’s Most Spectacular Day Hikes
As an aside, I note that the text from that post has been stolen and reposted on several other sites.
That’s a shame.
I did take a free trial, years ago. Was not so much impressed at that time.
I’ve never liked “walled garden” members only websites.
Seems to have improved a great deal since then. Here’s the email they sent me when I inquired as to cost:
The US$49.95 charge covers a 1 year subscription to Trails.com. Your subscription includes:
* Unlimited access to more than 44,000 Trail Guides – complete with driving directions, trail directions, maps and more.
* 20% OFF one entire order in our Gear Store (some exclusions apply). This benefit alone could easily pay for your entire Trails.com subscription!
* Unlimited access to every USGS Topographic Map in the USA.
* Trail Finder for fast and easy searching.
* Tools to track your favorite trails, and the ones you’d like to visit.
* The ability to create, download and save, email and print maps and guides.
* Real-time weather and GPS integration (coming soon).
* Trail reviews, photos and many more community features.
* The Trails.com Newsletter – with exclusive offers for Trails.com members.Kristie
Trails.com
Leave a comment if you’ve used that site recently.
Andreas Keller posted some personal images on a terrific German website called Canada Keller.
Here’s one sample …
see more – canada-keller.com
Natalie Gaber let us know that the Sierra Club launched a new website Thursday, July 9th.
It’s called Sierra Club Trails, the first hiking wiki. (So far as we know.)
Using Wetpaint software, anyone can edit any of their listed trails. For example, check Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park. (You can read that page. But must log-in to edit.)
Or start from the home page:
I’ll be researching it in detail. I’ve long wanted to convert our list of the best hikes in the world into a wiki.
besthike.com 