Best hikes, treks, tramps in the world.
One of our besthike photos was chosen as an example of “Natural Beauty” in Canada.
That was taken on our heli-hiking adventure (PHOTOS) to the Tombstone mountains in Yukon.
See the rest of the Provinces on Matador – Photo Essay: Canadian Natural Beauty Across the Country
John Muir:
“Mount Shasta rises in solitary grandeur from the edge of a comparatively low and lightly sculptured lava plain near the northern extremity of the Sierra, and maintains a far more impressive and commanding individuality than any other mountain within the limits of California. Go where you may, within a radius of from fifty to a hundred miles or more, there stands before you the colossal cone of Shasta, clad in ice and snow, the one grand, unmistakable landmark – the pole – star of the landscape. “
Ryan Commons documented his climb.
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo. (additional links on that page)
Love that tobogganing descent!
Only about a third of the 15,000 climbers who try it each year, summit. Shasta is a beast.
Dave Adlard and my masochistic friends from Team Adventure Sports Week are seriously talking about doing this
… 120 hours of glorious suffering in the Mojave desert outside of Vegas, Sept 18 – 25ish…
How can I stop them?
GossamerGear Mariposa Plus
Golite Jam
ULA P-2/Catalyst
Mountain Laurel Designs Exodus
Mountainsmith Ghost
Jason Klass explains why in this video …
There are a lot of lightweight and ultralight packs out there and I’ve tried many of them. Here are my picks for the top 5 including their strengths and weaknesses.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I’m sorry to say that my own pack, the Granite Gear Virga (VIDEO), did not make his list. He did choose it a number of years ago – best gear of the past 5 years.
related – Adventure Blog – The Best Backpack for Two Hours or Two Months (Sierra Magazine picks)
That’s the plan.
Trail run the Wonderland Trail around Mt. Ranier in Washington State.
90mi (145km)
Wish us luck.
Dr. Jeni … Dr. Rick … and Dr. Dave.
What do you think? … Three days, two short nights?
Hank Leukart is in Alaska.
HOW TO HIKE THE HARDING ICEFIELD TRAIL
OVERVIEW: The Harding Icefield Trail is an 8.2-mile, 5-hour hike round trip with a 3,150-foot elevation gain. Hiking conditions are best from June to September. Early in the season, about half of the trail is covered in snow, but hikers with boots will have little problem walking through it.
DIRECTIONS: Kenai Fjords National Park is about a three-hour drive, south of Anchorage, Alaska. …
ROUTE: Even in the snow, the trail is well-marked with signs and orange flags. …
details on Without Baggage – where days last forever.
… exploring the land of the midnight sun.
Prices this low from Europe are rare in high season. Iceland Express.
starting at €90, £65 or DKK650 one-way including taxes and fees, one way.
Late June, early July.
We’ve updated our best of “best hike” photo set. That’s now over 700 pics from site editor Rick McCharles and contributors.
Great day.
Evidence we made the summit – Amber writing us up in the summit log.
Of our group of five hikers, three were gymnasts. Here’s Krista celebrating the summit.
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We cycled in 6.5km (4mi), then had trouble finding the small cairn marking the start of the rough path to the river crossing. Our experience was exactly that posted on peakware:
Description – by Dow Williams:
Mount Remus is part of the horseshoe shaped Fisher Range at the front end of Kananaskis Country in the Elbow-Sheep Wildland Provincial Park.
Kananaskis Country is a maze of provincial parks which encompasses over 4,000 square kilometers of foothills and mountains bordering Banff National Park in the central Canadian Rockies.
Mount Remus starts one end of the horseshoe and Mount Fullerton the other. In between lies Mount Romulus and Fisher Peak. Mount Remus was officially named in 1940 along with Mount Romulus after the legendary twin brothers and founders of Rome.
The only published route up Mount Remus is the moderate to difficult scramble up its eastern slopes to its summit block. The guide book determines the chimney up the center of the summit block to be difficult with an optional moderate approach from the north. I found the chimney did not present a difficult challenge and rate this scramble moderate at most.
The most challenging aspect of the day involves crossing the Little Elbow River. This aspect of the trip more than likely explains why there is no trail and few, if any, cairns, thus little evidence of any traffic up this mountain. …
read more on peakware
Most fun was screeing and glissading descents. Here’s my butt track after I discovered tobogganing was even easier.
more photos from this great day hike
related post – biking hiking Banded Peak, Alberta
I’m ruminating on a series of hikes for this Fall:
Cinque Terre in northern Italy → Corsica → Sardinia → Sicily → …
I’d take ferries from one to the next, I assume.
Leave a comment if you have any advice for me. I’ve never hiked this region before.
