World’s Best Hikes
Link: National Geographic-worlds best trails Also see this: Top 55 Long Distance Hiking Trails in the United States, I’ve done some of or part of these east and west.
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The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot
Author Robert Macfarlane reads from his latest book, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot. Folding together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology and literature, Macfarlane explores the chalk downs of England, the bird-islands of the Scottish northwest, the disputed territories of Palestine, the sacred landscapes of Spain, and the Himalayas. The Old Ways is about
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Trails on Mars
One of my favorite sections of Blue Mars is Section Ten, Werteswandel, where Nirgal is trail running. Trail building and layout on Mars is also described. The selections below are only part of the trail narrative (pp.453-57): …it continues: …read the book for the rest 😉
Skyline Trail, Big Bear, California
The new Skyline trail above Big Bear is a special experience with phenomenal views. The trail parallels Forest Service Road 2N10. The main sight is several snow capped (at this time) mountains: listed east to west- Grinnell, Lake, Gorgonio, Anderson.On the west end you can see Lake Matthews, and maybe Lake Perris. Also, though not
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Pacific Crest Trail at Sunrise Highway
The section of the Pacific Crest Trail near Sunrise Highway and Cuyamaca Lake is a well maintained trail with serious views. We started the hike at the Sunrise highway trail head lot where the La Cima and Lucky Five trails begin/end as well (see this for those sections). The PCT is North across Sunrise highway
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Cuyamaca to Indian Creek Loop
route: http://www.geoladders.com/show_route.php?route=72078 GPX file: cuyamaca to indian creek loop (right click to save as gpx) more Cuyamaca: here ^Geotagged images above on map below as well Click yellow dot for image (right click pop-up image to enlarge it)
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Syllamo Trails, Arkansas (IMBA Epic)
I had finally given up on the Bad Branch trail. I was 22 miles in, starting at the White River Bluff trail head, planning a big clockwise loop: orange (bald scrappy), to blue(scappy), to yellow(jack’s), to red(bad branch), to blue again, to blue/orange (scrappy/bald scrappy co-alignment) (see map below). It would be close to 40
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Oak Mountain, Alabama (IMBA Epic)
I wasn’t sure what to expect here. I didn’t do a lot of research beforehand for this place, and almost went elsewhere instead. I arrived a day later because I spent two days at Coldwater instead of one (some people say Coldspring). Both days at Coldwater a few riders said to go to Oak Mountain
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Coldspring Flow Trails
Before I begin in the paragraph below, let me just say that there is a little confusion here, in regards to naming this place. One trail head is called Coldspring, it sits however, on Coldwater Rd. I’ve heard it called both Coldspring and Coldwater. Po-ta-to, po-tat-o, spring, water…? Right now the place is in it’s
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Kerr-Scott, North Carolina (IMBA Epic)
^Geotagged images above are on the map at bottom of post as well route: http://www.geoladders.com/show_route.php?route=71764 GPX file: kerr scott imba epic more info:Â http://brushymtncyclists.com/mountain-biking/ and here: http://www.bmcc.us/kerr_scott.htm IMBA’s info on the Epic: http://www.imba.com/epics/kerr-scott This was a long day, but a lot of fun. I started by the Kerr-Scott dam on some of the first trails built/re-built
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