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I’ve been hiking with frameless Granite Gear Virga packs for many years. Love ’em.
The only pack with a similar LOW weight to volume ratio is the Zpack Arc Blast. It’s the only other I’d even consider.
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related – Best Ultralight Packs of 2018
trip report by BestHike editor Rick McCharles
St. George’s was the first part of Bermuda to be extensively colonized, and the town of St. George’s contains many of the territory’s oldest buildings.
It’s claimed to be the oldest continuously-inhabited English town in the New World.
While visiting I walked all parts of the island many times. Here are some highlights.
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That footage is shot using the Osmo Mobile 2 gimbal with an iPhone X.
Though the gimbal weighs 485g (17oz) I’ll be carrying it on many future hikes.
Winner of the 2011 Banff Mountain Festival Book Award: Best Book, Mountain and Wilderness Literature.
… in 2006, an impulsive, naïve young Tibetan nun and her best friend, both yearning for religious freedom from Chinese rule, joined a group of fellow Tibetans desperate to escape to India, where the Dalai Lama has lived since the 1950 annexation of Tibet by China.
Kelsang Namtso and Dolma Palkyi embarked on the brutal journey over the Himalayas. Smuggled by illegal guides past Chinese border police, the group braved freezing temperatures and snow, the high altitude, and perilous crevasses.
Green alternates the refugees’ trek with that of Luis Benitez, an American celebrity mountain guide leading a rich group of international clients to the Himalayan peak Cho Oyu. The two groups met on the peak as Chinese guards, alerted to the refugees’ presence, chased after the escapees with machine guns ablaze, and Kelsang was killed in full view of the Westerners. …
Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet by Jonathan Green (2010)
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The author is a good writer. But there are numerous factual errors. He needed a better editor and more expert proof readers.
Green doesn’t sound like a climbing insider to me. I suspected he’d never visited Cho Oyu nor Tibet in writing the book.
travel2walk posted a very detailed trip report on how to hike Lofoten north of the Arctic Circle.
The Lofoten Islands are characterised by their mountains and peaks, sheltered inlets, stretches of seashore and large virgin areas. …
May and June are the driest months, while October has three times as much precipitation. …
The easiest way to get there is to fly Oslo to Bodø.
Read the trip report.
If interested in organizing something for yourself, check this Lofoten hiking guidebook and website.
Forest Park is in western St. Louis, Missouri. It … covers 1,371 acres (5.55 km2). …
Opened in 1876, the park has hosted several significant events, including the Louisiana Purchase Expositionof 1904 and the 1904 Summer Olympics. …
… features a variety of attractions, including the St. Louis Zoo, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Missouri History Museum, and the St. Louis Science Center. …
I spent two half days walking the Park and visiting attractions. Easy access via MetroLink.
It’s part of the River Ring, a 600+ mile web of parklands and trails being developed by the Great Rivers Greenway. Ideal for cycling, by the looks of it.
Though it requires a guide, Manaslu is a fantastic hike. It has less than 10% of the hikers of nearby Annapurna Circuit.
Sadly the experience is being degraded due to road construction. The Chinese are pushing through the Himalayas via Tsum valley.
Through the Adventure Podcast I connected with Marinel M. de Jesus, Brown Gal Trekker.
Marinel practiced law for 15 years — then quit — deciding she’d rather spend her time trekking.
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She guides clients, especially female clients, on travels and treks. When not on those trips Marinel works to promote women in the outdoors.
Marinel is a regular contributor to Huffpost, Matador Network and Medium. She recently published a book entitled Tales of a Brown Gal Trekker.
Mattson and Anderson have problems getting to the top of the most popular peak east of Banff.
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Te Araroa (The Long Pathway) is New Zealand‘s long distance tramping route, stretching ~3000 km (1850 miles) along the length of the country’s two main islands from Cape Reinga to Bluff.
It is made up of a mixture of older tracks and walkways, new tracks and link sections alongside roads. …
Most thru-hikers take between three and six months for a complete trip. …
Attitude Over Ability did a good chunk of the Te Araroa — the wilder south island.
BUDGET in New Zealand dollars for 53 days:
Read her trip report.
More trip reports.
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