Why would anyone do 7 New Zealand Great Walks in only 7 days?
Day 1 – November 29th – 42.7km – Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk
Day 2 – November 30th – 41km – Tongariro Northern Circuit
Day 3 – December 1st – 51.9km – Abel Tasman Coast Track
Day 4 – December 2nd – 78.4km – Heaphy Track
Day 5 [...]
Archive for the ‘trail running’ Category
30 Oct
7 great hikes in 7 days
24 Oct
10km fun run, XTERRA, Maui
I’m happy to have survived. And fairly happy with my time of 1hr 12min, or so.
Since I’d not done any distance “running” since June, I placed myself at the very back of the pack for the start. That way I’d not suffer the indignity of little girls passing me en route. (The winner of [...]
13 Oct
Kilian Jornet – record Tahoe Rim Trail
Kilian Jornet is the two-time defending champion of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc.
He holds the trail running record for the GR20 traverse of Corsica, one of the toughest tracks in Europe.
In September he took 7hrs off the record for the Tahoe Rim Trail in California.
At only age-21, sponsored by Soloman, you’ll be [...]
11 Oct
Mt Whitney Double
Whitney is the highest mountain in the continental USA.
Fedak linked to an amazing trip report.
By Rick Kent:
I started at midnight. For the first trip I decided to go up the Mountaineers Route. Despite going from Portal to summit (and much of the way back) in the dark I made good time. It helps that [...]
7 Oct
Ultra Tour Trail du Mont Blanc 2009
Laura Jones, a reporter from the U.K., hiked a 10 day tour:
… the lovely thing about the TMB is that the drama of those awesome panoramas of glaciers and mountain peaks are interspersed with walking green valleys filled with Alpine flowers, twisty turney streams, chalky blue mountain lakes – and if you’re lucky marmosettes.
The changing [...]
12 Sep
Fjällräven Classic – a hiking race
Fjällräven, a Swedish company specialising in outdoor clothing, sponsors an annual hiking race.
Hiking race?
I’ve never heard of this concept before. And 2000+ partipants attended this year!
The competition element is downplayed, however. It’s not in the same category as most other trail races. In this event, you must carry a pack. And sleep in a [...]
24 Jun
hiking with booze?
I’m for it, of course.
The greatest backcountry boozer I’ve hiked with is Kelly Mock, then living in Whitehorse, Yukon. It was Kelly that carried a “Bubba” (mini keg of beer) over the Golden Staircase to Happy Camp on the famed Chilkoot Trail in Alaska.
Arriving on the solstice, Kelly bought a round for the house [...]
17 Jun
trail running Zabriskie Point, Death Valley
My favourite vista in Death Valley is one of the most popular.
As well as being a curious film by Antonioni (1970), Zabriskie Point is an elevated overlook of a colorful, undulating landscape of gullies and mud hills at the edge of the Funeral Mountains, a few miles from the edge of Death Valley …
American [...]
16 Jun
Adventure Sports Week – whither Team Nike?
UPDATE – Team Nike Beaver Creek won the first annual Adventure Sports Week 2-day Adventure Race.
For this race the team was made up of Mike Kloser, Gretchen Reeves and Jay Henry. Congratulations.
official results
The win was far from easy, however. Nike was pushed hard by Team Life [...]
13 Jun
more Adventure Sports Week photos
Just added 20 new pics from our sprawling Adventure Sports Week event in Idaho.
see more on flickr
The Crux and The Crucible Adventure Race starts tomorrow early. Teams hope to finish each of the next 2 days within 14hrs.
Hints from event organizer David Adlard lead us to understand it’s going to be a [...]
