By Kelly Gray on a new UK outdoor magazine called Wide World:
Just because there’s no snow on the ground doesn’t mean you can’t go to ski resorts. In fact, it’s a fantastic time for a mountain getaway – plus there are less crowds. White water, raw natural surroundings, forested canopies – perfect for mountain climbing, [...]
Archive for the ‘books and magazines’ Category
20 Jun
15 best mountain towns in Summer
5 May
Sierra High Route – American Adventure
Allie Comeau on the Sierra Blogging Post had to include a Sierra trip as one of her Top 10 American Adventures.
Good call.
It’s on our list of the best hikes in North America. Similar to the famed John Muir Trail, but without wasting so much time and energy descending each day. On [...]
10 Apr
iPhone Apps hit the trail
One of Backpacker Magazine’s blogs, The Daily Dirt, has been my favourite in recent weeks.
Here’s another interesting post:
… In a new 30-second spot, the familiar hands demonstrate apps to replace a compass, identify bird species, and spot poison ivy. Add those apps to the already impressive list including the Google Earth and GPS [...]
30 Mar
Lost in the Yellowstone
Lost In the Yellowstone: Truman Everts’s Thirty Seven Days of Peril is a surprisingly engaging read. One of the best survival stories ever.
One Amazon customer review:
Today, being lost in Yellowstone National Park is as simple as turning on the wrong road after you lost your complimentary map or you can not locate the [...]
25 Mar
hike Zuni Acoma Trail, New Mexico
I’m a huge fan of hiking author Peter Potterfield, especially his Classic Hikes of the World: 23 Breathtaking Treks.
His most recent article:
I’ve come to do the legendary Zuni Acoma trail, famous for hard going and rugged terrain as it traverses ridge after ridge of charcoal colored lava flows. The route also makes up a section [...]
20 Mar
hike Zillertal Rucksack Route, Austria
Listed by Backpacker magazine as one of the World’s Best (Unknown) Treks.
It sounds great:
… This 50-mile, nine-day loop has it all: glaciated 11,000-foot mountains, high alpine passes, deep valleys, waterfalls, gemsbok mountain antelopes, alpine roses, and martigon lilies. The well-marked route requires no technical expertise, but expect long, strenuous days (despite the relatively short [...]
19 Mar
top 10 undiscovered treks
The Adventure Blog tipped me again to another great list:
Backpacker – THE WORLD’S BEST UNKNOWN TREKS
Pyrenees Traverse, France
Cape Wrath Trail, Scotland
Zillertal Alps, Austria
Tongariro Northern Circuit and Heaphy Track, New Zealand
Cordillera Apolobamba, Bolivia
Overland Track, Australia
Sarek National Park, Sweden
Rolwaling and Khumbu Valleys, Nepal
Polar Route, Greenland
Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
First, that’s 11 treks.
Second, they would have discovered 6 [...]
13 Mar
Trail Life: Lightweight Backpacking
“Ray Jardine revisits and rethinks his classic ultralight backpacking text…”
Overview
Ray Jardine, arguably the founding father of ultralight backpacking as we know it, wrote a book entitled Beyond Backpacking and, within its pages, presented to a backpacking community with weary backs and knees tips and techniques by which they could lighten their loads and travel easier. [...]
10 Feb
7800mi backpacking the Andes
Deia Schlosberg & Gregg Treinish were named Adventurers of the Year by one of the National Geographic magazines.
Congratulations.
Two years. 7,800 miles. No roads. That was how Deia Schlosberg, 28, and Gregg Treinish, 26, vowed to trek the length of the Andes. They had no idea what they were getting into. Beginning in Papallacta, Ecuador, [...]
5 Feb
Backpacker bungles Best Hike in Each State
Backpacker Magazine, as part of their Readers’ Choice Awards 2009, named “the best hike in every state” in the USA.
No need to click through to the list, however.
Not unless you want to add your comment to these:
The “best trail in Nevada” points at a link titled Great Basin National Park? Nope, but instead takes [...]
