From a blogger’s account of helicoptering to the Fox Glacier in New Zealand: John kept wishing for bad weather to liven up our hike, looking forward to being stranded on the glacier and hoping the guides would have to break…
Hikes of the world
Rick’s Top 10 Trails of the World
by tmangan • December 26, 2006 • 0 Comments
I figured I’d wait till Rick posted all 10 of his all-time favorite hiking locales. No. 1 is in Canada, of course. Today he added a Peruvian circuit not in his top 10 but notable as the locale of the…
Great Wall, great walk
by tmangan • December 18, 2006 • 0 Comments
For those who missed this link at Best Hikes last week, Walking the Wall is an amazing account of a couple hiking along the route of China’s Great Wall. One of the great things about this site is that the…
Andy Howell in the Pyrenees
by tmangan • December 13, 2006 • 0 Comments
Andy has an excellent writeup from a trek through the French high country. He describes meeting a French hiker along the way: He greeted me in a hearty way. Wasn’t the view wonderful? These are my mountains. He told me…
The guides of Kilimanjaro
by tmangan • December 12, 2006 • 1 Comment
Outdoorzy.com co-founder Wade describes his Kilimanjaro ascent, with an aside about how much to tip guides, porters, etc.: I’ve read some horror stories about tipping guides and porters. Also read that some of them turn around and sell all the…
Walking an ocean of sand
by tmangan • December 8, 2006 • 0 Comments
Another Paula Constant-walks-the-Sahara link: But, oh, the desert was so beautiful. No matter how tough dune walking is, or how hard it is to find good feed for the camels, I doubt I could ever tire of cresting one of…
Fun with camels
by tmangan • November 22, 2006 • 0 Comments
Paula Constant’s latest chapter in her trans-Sahara trek is a rather long and involved tale of wandering camels, an incompetent guide, and the wisdom of the desert’s elders. It’s crazy for a while there but has a happy ending.
Live from the Minami Alps
by tmangan • October 30, 2006 • 0 Comments
Bastish is having some fun backpacking in Japan: Just 20 meters up the trail, over a small hill, the screams continued and my mind raced to connect their chilling echo to something, anything, I have heard in the past –…
Let’s hear it for Japanese hikers
by tmangan • October 20, 2006 • 4 Comments
From a Japan Times story about hiking in the countryside northwest of Tokyo: The fellow passengers on the weekend “holiday special express” from Shinjuku to Okutama or Musashi-Itsukaichi — an hour northwest of Tokyo — are a strange melange: There…