My friends Greg and Helen Kolodziejzyk just completed the Tour du Mont Blanc. And had a fantastic time. 🙂
Check our TMB information page.
Beaver and Bison
NEW – John Muir Trail
We’ve updated and moved our JMT information page.
AT A GLANCE
- one of our top 10 hikes in the world
start in stunning Yosemite, Muir’s “Range of Light”- 223mi (360km) to Whitney Portal adding sidetrips to Half Dome, Vermillion Resort and Mt. Whitney 14,505ft (4,421m)
- 15-21 days recommended
- most hikers carry their own food and tent (pack animals can be hired, however)
… read more here
If you’ve hiked the John Muir recently, check that page for accuracy. We’ve not been there since 2007. Too long.
Ultra-Ever Dry ®
WHEN is this technology coming to outdoor gear?
Looks brilliant. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Ultra-Ever Dry ®
BBC Natural World – Himalaya
Kraig Becker:
…The video below is a full episode of that series which happens to be focused on one of my favorite places – the Himalaya. If you have 49 minutes to spare, you’ll get a great look at those mountains and the people that live there, with some of the most breathtaking scenery you’ll find anywhere. So sit back, turn up the volume and enjoy the show. It is one of the greatest on Earth.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I’m doing some research for a planned trip to the BIG mountains.
Grand Canyon of Greenland
Laugavegur trek, Iceland
James Handlon signed on with adventure travel company Arctic Adventures to finally trek Laugavegur.
After several hours of bumpy off-roading we finally arrived late in the day at the Landmannalaugar campsite, a weird mix of surreal landscape, Glastonbury Music Festival and refugee camp all thrown together creating the most bizarre of places to start a trek .…
Gorgeous.
Read his entire trip report following the links from the bottom of THE LAUGAVEGUR ICELANDIC TREK – DAY 1 page.
Overland Track, Tasmania
It’s on our list of top 10 hikes in the World. It’s on many top 10 lists.
What’s it all about?
Discover Tasmania calls this the best Overland tramping video they’ve ever seen. Kids, rain, mud, snow … and plenty of FUN on a family adventure. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/30842951
If interested in making the pilgrimage to Tasmania yourself, check our NEW Overland information page.
It’s been updated with advice from local expert Warwick Sprawson.
Alastair Humphreys – Greenland
In the last 100 years, twelve people have stood on the moon, more than 500 have been into space, and more than five thousand have climbed Everest. Yet the journey Captain Scott and his team died trying to complete a century ago remains unrealised. No one has ever walked from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back again.
… Ben Saunders, Alastair Humphreys and Martin Hartley take on arguably the most ambitious polar expedition in the last century: the four-month Scott 2012 – the first return journey to the South Pole on foot, and at 1,800 miles, the longest unsupported polar journey in history. …
Click PLAY or watch 2012 training expedition on Vimeo.
The Scott Expedition did not go in 2012.
Instead, an expanded Team starts October 2013. Wish them luck.
Jennifer Pharr Davis on the AT
The Trail can change you.
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
It’s impossible not to love this woman. 🙂
