Archive for the 'blogs' Category

the future of climbing – buildings

November 15, 2009

I’ve just subscribed to the CheapTents.com Outdoor Gear Blog.
A very interesting perspective with much original content.
I liked a commentary on the illegal climb of Blackpool Tower, in Lancashire, U.K. this past August.

… At 158m the Blackpool Tower is pretty high, and for some climbers the thought of climbing an iconic structure is irresistible. Obviously [...]

hiking blog – Madeira Walking

October 28, 2009

Madeira is an archipelago in the Atlantic, an Autonomous region of Portugal. Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island are the only inhabited islands.

I’ve just subscribed to Madeira Walking, a quality, impressive site.
The unique attraction of this area are Levada, irrigation channels that double as ideal hiking trails.

Nature Meetings, partners on this site, [...]

moving besthike to Google Sites?

October 5, 2009

I’m still looking for a good way to move our list of the best hikes in the world to a wiki.

None of the wiki software I’ve looked at appeals.
The best of the bad bunch is Google Sites (video) … At least I know that Google will continue to improve this product into the [...]

new – Canary Island hiking blog

October 1, 2009

My name is Andrea. I was born and raised in Leicestershire in the U.K. In 1994 I drove 15,000 miles around the United States and on returning home, couldn´t seem to settle back into the old routine. So, I uprooted myself from there to come and work ´for the summer´ on the [...]

trekking through snow in Corsica

September 30, 2009

Can you believe this is Corsica, France?
An island in the Mediterranean.

It’s from an excellent trip report of a 6 days, 95km trek through Corsica in May.
That’s the Trailblaze blog edited by Johannes Huwe, posted in both German and English.
Though snow has been rare on the island since 1979 (presumably due to climate change) [...]

best site for hikers, campers, nature cravers

September 24, 2009

Have you seen the new tag line on Tom Mangan’s blog?

Two-Heel Drive is the Web’s oldest regularly updated hiking blog. Born as a general-interest hiking blog in the fall of 2005, it evolved into a Bay Area-focused blog in the summer of 2007. I had to shift focus again in the summer of 2009 because [...]

featured blog – Outdoor Afro

September 19, 2009

I’ve just subscribed.
Outdoor Afro is a website community that reconnects African-Americans with natural spaces and one another through recreational activities such as camping, hiking, biking, boating, gardening, and skiing. Outdoor Afro uses social media to create interest communities, events, and to partner with regional and national organizations that support diverse participation in the Great [...]

climbing Kilimanjaro for Crohn’s disease

August 27, 2009

I have a friend with Crohn’s. It’s a bad disease.
From Jeremy Twigg via email:
… This September, 16-year-old Clinton Shard of Squamish, B.C. is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro as a part of a team of six people led by Crohn’s patient Rob Hill, who is the founder of the Intestinal Disease Education and Awareness Society, or [...]

trip report – hiking Mt Blanc to Matterhorn

August 23, 2009

by site editor Rick McCharles
Chamonix to Zermatt: The Walker’s Haute Route is one of the very best hikes in the World.
One of the very best hikes I’ve ever done.
It changed my life.

Chamonix to Zermatt, Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn – … the greatest collection of 4000 metre peaks in the Alps and [...]

hiking Telescope Peak, Death Valley, by moonlight

August 18, 2009

The always excellent Without Baggage blog published by Hank Leukart has a funny trip report:
… At midnight, the three of us set off to climb the seven miles and 3,500 feet from Mahogany Flat to Death Valley’s highest point in the moonlight.
In the dark, using only the almost-full moon to guide us, we trudged up [...]