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find a trekking guide for Nepal
Micah Hanson is an expert on independent trekking in the Himalayas (indietrekking.com).
In collaboration with a Sherpa friend from Nepal, Micah launched Sherpana.com.
There hikers who don’t want to go it alone can book trekking guides online and review the guides.
In addition the site allows people to join each others treks, if they choose, so that they can share the cost of the trip with other trekkers. (It reminds me of TrekkingPartners.com, a site I’ve used in the past.)
They’ve tried to make pricing as transparent as possible, and allow people to book only the guide and pay for the food and lodging directly to the lodge owners.
Prices do look competitive. For example, this upcoming trek:
Everest Base Camp Trek (13 days)
Price for 2 hikers would be $352 (each) for 13 days, but you can add extra days and side trips like the Cho La pass to Gokyo, ect. Extra days for 2 people, would be an extra $15.50 per person per day.
Tent out on the Lake
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Eagle Creek Guide Travel Pack 65L
Adventure Blogger Kraig Becker is taking this pack on his upcoming trip to Africa.
It’s for travel, not hiking.
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Hunting is good for Hikers
I’m not a hunter. But there’s no doubt that hunters are some of the biggest supporters of wilderness recreation.
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Te Araroa Trail documentary
Comfort Theory hikes the 3000 km track from Cape Reinga to Bluff, New Zealand.
Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.
Watch the full documentary (25 minutes) for free on Outside TV via Amazon. After the first week that service costs $4.99 / month.
DRONE in the Drakensberg
A great hiking destination in southern Africa.
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https://vimeo.com/258940152?ref=fb-share&1
The Drakensberg escarpment stretches for over 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) …
The Afrikaans name Drakensberge comes from the name the earliest Dutch settlers to the region gave it. They called them the Drakensbergen, or “Mountains of Dragons”. …
One of the best hikes there is Giant’s Cup Trail.
will you be hiking Bear country?
Ball Pass route, New Zealand
Some in New Zealand will tell you Ball Pass is … closed.
It’s possible. But tough. A route not a trail.
Halfway Anywhere posted a detailed trip description on how to pull it off yourself. In good weather.
Guide to Hiking Ball Pass Route in New Zealand
Robert Macfarlane ‘outdoors’ books
Robert Macfarlane is a British writer, PhD at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
He’s also much smarter than you and I.
Macfarlane’s first book, Mountains of the Mind, was published in 2003 and won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. …
The Wild Places was published in September 2007. …
The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot, the third in the ‘loose trilogy of books about landscape and the human heart’ …, was published in June 2012 …
Landmarks, a book that celebrates and defends the language of landscape, was published in the UK in March 2015. …
I started Old Ways … Found it brilliant, eloquent, academic intimidating, dense. Too much for me, in fact. I didn’t finish.
It’s as much poetry as prose.
Some day I’ll download all Macfarlane’s books to Kindle. Read them in the tent on a long, long, long hike.
I’m expecting an honorary PhD in the outdoors for that study. 🙂
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