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Good luck with that, Dan.
In May 2012, Dan will embark on his biggest journey to date, as he attempts a Global Triathlon – swimming, cycling and running around the world. This will include a grueling 5700km swim, as Dan attempts to become the first man in history to swim the Atlantic. …
How do you swim the Atlantic?
One stroke at a time.
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(via Alister Humphries)
by dzjow from May 2009
The Müllerthal trail is definitely one of the most and perhaps even the most beautiful trail in the whole of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Strong hikers can hike the 35km long trail number 2 in a dayhike but I recommend to do it as an overnighter as there are so many interesting spots to explore along the trail.
Wonderful photos …
… I’m getting stuck with my backpack. I need to take it off and wring through the corridor while pushing my backpack ahead of me. After this first small corridor a second much longer and deeper one follows. At the end of the tunnel it gets so dark that I’m first thinking I must have missed the trail as the corridor seems to end in a dead point. While returning it still seems to be the right route. I get back into the corridor, now with my head lamp shining ahead. The corridor keeps going. It looks more lake caving what I’m doing. This is perhaps the finest passage of the Müllerthal trail. Passed the long corridor I leave the trail for a while to explore the underground circuit of the Kuelscheier cave. Yes, it’s not only corridors to explore here, there are small real caves too! …
DZJOW’S ADVENTURE LOG – Idyllic waterfalls and fairytale rock corridors – hiking the Müllerthal trail
(via Hiking in Finland)
Marcus Gough:
24 Hours – A Micro-Adventure In The Lake District
I put together this short film following inspiration from Alastair Humphrey’s series on ‘Micro-adventures’.
… music is “Quiet” by This Will Destroy You.
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(via Hiking in Finland)
the “largest gathering of backpackers in the United States” …
… someday …
National Parks Traveler:
… Damascus, Virginia is rightly called “Trail Town USA.” …
This year the fest runs May 18th through 20th but events start Saturday May 12th and continue through the 17th for early arrivals. …
The festival includes everything from lectures to a beauty pageant, a talent show, free gear repair and more. It’s a truly trail focused cultural convergence, and every year the schedule of events is worth a close inspection for events that any hiker would want to attend. …
… The Virginia Creeper Trail—a former logging railroad, now without the tracks and trains—starts near Mount Rogers on the lofty heights of White Top, the state’s second highest peak, and runs across scenic rolling foothills 33.4-miles to Abingdon, one of Virginia’s oldest mountain towns …
Discriminating Explorer: Get on the Road to Damascus! Trail Days 2012 Hikes in May 18th-20th
Myself and John Hill from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada call the Tamarack Trail in Waterton National Park one of the very best walks in the world.
Check out a few of John’s photos. He’s hiked Tamarack many times.
Jenn Isbister:
Best talk I’ve ever attended. Anywhere! On anything! By anyone!! What an amazing man.
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Fun for everyone who loves the outdoors. Out of Coeur d’Alene, June 2-10th, 2012.
This unique image, captured by motion-sensitive cameras, offers an extraordinary glimpse of an animal that many Canadians have never seen. A Canada lynx uses the Redearth Creek wildlife overpass to cross the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park at 8:34 a.m. on March 28, 2012. Since 1996, over 200,000 animals, including grizzlies, wolves and cougars, have safely crossed the highway using wildlife overpasses and underpasses.
The overpass is one of six that are part of the wildlife-crossing project in Banff National Park.
Combined with 38 underpasses along the stretch of Trans-Canada Highway that cuts through this wildlife-rich area, the intent of the crossings is to keep the number of animal deaths on the highway to an absolute minimum …
Calgary Herald – Rare photo of lynx using Banff highway overpass delights wildlife experts
Kloofing is an adventure activity that typically involves the descent of a deep ravine or watercourse that may be dry or wet. The defining factor is usually that the ravine is several times deeper than it is wide. All manner of walking, scrambling, climbing, swimming, plunging, jumping, bumslides or abseiling (rappelling) could be involved.
A kloofing trip usually combines hiking with the descent of a watercourse. Some of the more “interesting” kloofing involves long abseils or high jumps into pools from varying heights, up to as high as 20 or more metres (for example the popular ‘Suicide Gorge‘ in South Africa). …
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Looks like FUN.
I’d sign on with a guide to ensure safety.
Doh. Two different guiding sites I visited say that these trips are cancelled “due to maintenance”.
Leave a comment if you know different.
Suicide Gorge is the favourite adventure of James Haden. He also likes Table Mountain in South Africa. And Mt Sinai in Egypt.
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