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One of my favourite hiking photos.
I’ve enjoyed many great hikes on the Olympic Peninsula over the years. Weather is a huge factor. When it’s not raining, the Olympics are paradise. 🙂
Here are a few of my photos from the past.
I’m planning to return June 22nd 2015.
I’ll decide when and where to hike based on the weather forecast. Plan A is to start with Cape Alava – Rialto Beach, the “Shipwreck Coast“. There are many other options, of course. 🙂
I’m planning to do the Shipwreck end of June 2015. 🙂
It’s 20 miles from Rialto Beach to the Lake Ozette Ranger Station. From Lake Ozette, you can tack on another 15 miles from the ranger station to Shi Shi Beach. …
… wind-and-wave-hammered, isolated, and strewn with massive logs and giant strands of kelp. All that makes it one of the most unique backpacking adventures in the lower 48: a wilderness beach hike untrammeled by resort homes and boardwalks. …
The beachscape, which is part of the 2,408-nautical-square-mile Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, is full of life and always changing: low tides expose tide pools filled with orange and purple stars, urchins, sea anemones, and other intercoastal life. …
Conservación Patagónica is a conservation group whose mission is “to create national parks in Patagonia …
Founded in 2000 by Kristine Tompkins, former CEO of Patagonia, Inc, …
I was there near the beginning. Not much to see. A simple visitor centre. Great dreams. 🙂
Patagonia Park is open for hiking now.
Backpacker magazine – Tomás Dinges Jan 2015 trip report:
My route on the 13.5-mile Lagunas Altas Trail (translation: high lagoons) would take me to the top of a 4,872-foot peak and along a chain of eight lakes high in the southeastern section of the 200,000-acre park. I was far from the dense rainforests of northern Patagonia, but not yet enveloped by the never-ending steppe common to Argentina and southern Chile. Marked with fluorescent ribbons and colored rebar, the trail, like much of the park, was a work in progress. …
“You are walking around a park that you have to yourself,” said McDivitt-Tompkins, founder and president of Conservación Patagonica, the nonprofit organization created to oversee the park’s development. “Just imagine what John Muir felt when he was in Yosemite before it was Yosemite. You are in a place before anybody goes.” …
After 4.5 hours and 3,780-feet of climbing along the Lagunas Altas Trail, I emerged above treeline and onto the bald peak of Cerro Tamanguito. To the north stood the glaciated peaks and snowfields of the Jeinimeni Mountains. Below me were the distinct yellow and coffee-brown landscapes of the Chacabuco Valley I had hiked through. …
Applying the U.S. national park model, Conservación Patagonica has developed two campgrounds (with 60 tent sites and eight cook shelters), a lodge, a restaurant, and a new visitor center that’s scheduled to open in early 2015. There are six trails in place, totaling some 77 miles, and crews are busy planning and cutting more every day.
By 2020, Conservación Patagonica hopes to hand the land to the Chilean government to connect the now-separate operations of icy Jeinimeni and forested Tamango and privately held Patagonia Park to create a 610,000-acre Patagonia National Park, a preserve larger than our Great Smoky Mountains National Park. …
We’ve added the Lagunas Altas Trail to our list of the best hikes in South America.
South Africa is a fantastic hiking destination.
MG & Eras have been exploring the hikes outside JoBurg.
Check a sample – the 11.3km Krokodilberg Trail:
Hennops River offers three trails just 45 minutes from Johannesburg. With no pre-booking necessary over weekends and an on-the-spot entrance fee, it really does put all our excuses to shame. The Krokodilberg route is just over 11 km, with the shorter Zebra and Dassie routes available for the moderate to less keen.
We arrive later than we would have liked and stand prepping in the parking lot with a group of friends, applying handfuls of sun cream to already sweaty skin. …
Here are the other trails they’ve posted, so far.
I’ve been working my way through Cam Honan’s trip reports. He might just be the the world’s most traveled hiker. By the end of 2012 more than 50,000 miles (80,467 km) in some 55 countries.
Here’s a sample. From New Zealand.
Distance : 50km approx. (including side-trip up Mt. Taranaki)
Avg. Time : 3 days …
Sleeping : Outside of holiday times, the huts are rarely crowded. Leave the tent/shelter at home. …
In clear weather, the views on this trail are stunning. Definitely go for the High-level, rather than the Low-level route. …
The Hiking Life – Mt.Taranaki High-Level Circuit
Steve Fugate of Vero Beach, Florida, walked into the Cheraw town limits at 12:36 p.m. May 13, braving the 82-degree heat. The large sign on his back — which reads “love life” in red capital letters — made him easy to spot. …
Crossing the state line marked a milestone for Fugate as South Carolina is the final state in his trek through each of the lower 48, ending his cross-country walk two years, one month and 20 days after it began on March 23, 2013. …
Fugate said this is his eighth time making the journey, and that he has walked 39,000 miles he said he expects to walk his 40,000th mile somewhere in South Carolina. …
Fugate said he started these walks in 1999 after losing his son, 26-year-old Stevie, to suicide while walking the Appalachian Trail. Six years later tragedy struck again when Fugate’s daughter, 36-year-old Shelly, died from an accidental drug overdose.
Fugate said he carries the sign on his back to remind people to love and appreciate their lives. …
I spend a lot of time in Idaho. It’s terrific for hiking and mountain biking. Wilderness with a surprisingly mild climate.
via Matador – 17 THINGS ONLY SOMEONE WHO’S BEEN TO IDAHO WILL UNDERSTAND
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