One of my favourite blogs is The Hike Guy edited by Kolby Kirk.
How did his last trip go? 🙂
dispersed hiking in Alaska
If you’ve been to Alaska, you know hiking there is challenging.
Distances are HUGE. And there are not all that many established trails.
Turns out, that’s partly by design.
GearJunkie in Denali:
The park’s 2006 Backcountry Management Plan … “Except as otherwise specified… backcountry access and travel in Denali will continue without designated routes or constructed trails to allow for freedom to explore and to minimize signs of human presence.”
Similar trail-less wilderness areas exist within Alaska, which contains more than half of all the country’s wildernesses, but Denali is by far the most popular, totaling more than 38,000 backcountry campers last year. According to Burrows, the relative ease at which visitors can access Denali’s backcountry (it’s split in two by the park road) has spurred increased exploration and cause for increased measures to keep the wilderness as Murie intended.
Very quickly after starting hiking from the park road, we ran across our faint trails, and like many of Denali’s visitors we opted to take the path less traveled, spread out to disperse our impact and take advantage of a wilderness experience unlike anyplace else.
Bushwhacking Encouraged: Denali Strives To Eliminate Ad Hoc Trails
Morrell Nature Sanctuary, Nanaimo
11km of temperate rain forest trails. No mountain bikes allowed.
Morrell Nature Sanctuary is a privately owned nature reserve leased and managed by Morrell Sanctuary Society for Environmental Education, a not-for-profit organization managed by volunteers …
Watch for gnome homes on the (wheelchair accessible) Yew Loop trail.
trip report – Trail Exploration In Nanaimo
related – TripAdvisor reviews
Behind-the-Scenes – A Walk in the Woods
Appalachian Trail Conservancy:
Check out this exclusive behind-the-scenes interview from the film “A Walk in the Woods.” Travel writer Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) takes a long-lost old friend (Nick Nolte) for a hike along the Appalachian Trail, which stretches more than 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Stunning desert wilderness areas in the USA
Wilderness.org – Desert showcase: A look at America’s desert wilderness areas
Click through for more.
Copper Canyon Traverse, Mexico
In 2013 Justin “Trauma” Lichter and Cam “Swami” Honan completed a 381 mile (613 km) traverse of Mexico´s Copper Canyon region. A first thru hike.
The traverse was a combination of hiking, packrafting, swimming, bushwhacking, scrambling, crawling and weaving our way around clandestine drug fields.
Our route linked together the six major canyons (along with numerous minor ones) that constitute the Copper Canyon region. It took us from the region’s northwest corner (Basaseachi Falls) to its southeastern limits (Sinforosa Canyon). In the order in which they were traversed, the canyons were as follows:
Candamena
Oteros
Copper
Urique
Batopilas
Sinforosa
Hadrian’s Wall Path
- 6-7 days
- camping, hostel, hotel
- you can hire people to haul your luggage to the next hotel
- May – October
Walk 84 miles from coast to coast following the World Heritage Site of Hadrian’s Wall, past Roman settlements and forts. There’s history every step of the way, and cosy pubs, bustling market towns and great views too.
besthike views and visitors
Looks like 2015 will see the most traffic ever to this site.
The goal, however, is not to generate the most page views. But rather to maintain a list of the best hikes in the world. This is a resource for hikers planning future adventures.
Check two other best hike lists:
- The Hiking Life – 100 Classic Hikes
- Walkopedia – World’s 100 Best Walks
hike to Hunlen Falls, B.C.
Breathtaking is the only word that can remotely describe the beauty of Hunlen Falls in remote Tweedsmuir Provincial Park in the West Chilcotin area of British Columbia.
But almost no one has ever heard of Hunlen Falls – and nor do they realize that these waterfalls are Canada’s third highest – plunging 1,316 feet (401 meters). In fact they are the highest waterfalls in Canada IF you measure as a continuous unbroken drop. …
The best way to see Hunlen Falls is via floatplane. It’s a twenty minute flight from Nimpo Lake. If you have time, you can land on Turner Lake and take the one kilometer trail to the lookout.
Alternatively you can hike to Hunlen Falls. …
… 16.4 kilometers one way with a vertical raise of 800 meters (2625 feet). It’s a great trail if you like counting switchbacks. There are 78 of them.
Plan to take 6-9 hours one way …Canada’s 3rd Highest Waterfall – Breathtaking Hunlen Falls in BC
related – trip report – three day trip to Hunlen Falls and Turner Lake
Google robot goes hiking
Boston Dynamics ATLAS robot walking over debris and in a forest. Commentary by Professor Marc Raibert, co-founder of Boston Dynamics Inc.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I, for one, welcome our new Robot hiking overlords. 🙂
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