In the winter of 2018 and 2019, Tom Davies (aka GeoWizard) had the unlikely idea of crossing a country in a completely straight line. …
Tom’s most viral video with almost 4 million views; everyone loves a wacky idea. …
Adventure Blog – The Geographical Genius Who Crosses Countries in Straight Lines
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A branding expert could use this as a marketing blunder.
NOBODY knows what to call the ever evolving 24,000 km network of greenways, waterways, trails, and roadways.
Official website:
As of June 1, 2021, the name of The Great Trail of Canada has changed back to its original name, and is once again known as the iconic Trans Canada Trail. …
Back in 2016, we decided to separate the name of our organization (Trans Canada Trail) from the name of the physical trail (The Great Trail), as a way to celebrate and highlight the significant milestone of connection in 2017.
SO …
I’m pleased nobody will ever be confused on that again. 
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BestHike editor Rick McCharles
Let’s face it. Many hiking videos are boring.
Too long. Too much similar footage.
Personally, I’m trying to make mine shorter.
Here’s an excellent example. You get a good feel for South Africa’s 100 km Outeniqua trail in one minute.
Looks like they had a great time. 
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related – Outeniqua trip report
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Locked and loaded for our #1 hike in the world.
I start June 10th.
I’ll be posting video and a detailed trip report later in the month.
He spent the pandemic well. What a year!
Edward:
In the year since the New Zealand Covid-19 lockdown ended in late April 2020 I completed 72 hikes (“tramps” in the NZ vernacular), and fifteen shorter walks. …
… the best views were on the tramp to Barrier Knob via Gertrude Saddle in Fiordland …
Here’s a list of these 72 tramps plus 15 short walks. …
Jeff “Legend” Garmire is an adventurer who climbed the Colorado 14ers, survived The Great Western Loop, broke the Arizona Trail self-supported FKT, Long Trail Unsupported FKT, and the Colorado Trail Unsupported FKT and much more.
Free Outside is his telling of his Calendar Year Triple Crown: Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail.
I listened to the audio version which Jeff reads himself.
Fast paced. No dull moments.
8000 miles averaging over 30 miles a day.
I enjoyed the book.
It’s real to his experience. So real that no editor seems to have corrected spelling nor typos.
Seemed to me the CDT would be my least favourite of the three — overall. Too many cows. Too much dirty drinking water.
Trip report by BestHike editor Rick McCharles
Mount Manuel Quimper is a great hike close to Sooke on Vancouver Island.
I looped back via Mount Brule, an easy 10km circuit using AllTrails for navigation.
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There are many other hiking and mountain biking trails to choose from.
It’s just off the Galloping Goose Regional Trail, a 55-kilometre (34 mi) non-motorized path to Victoria. Ideal for me as I cycled to the trailhead.
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A good book. And important look at the role of parents in the raising of their children.
The Adventurer’s Son is Roman Dial’s extraordinary account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his son’s disappearance in the jungles of Costa Rica.
… Before he left, Cody Roman Dial emailed his father: “I am not sure how long it will take me, but I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle and a day to walk out. I’ll be bounded by a trail to the west and the coast everywhere else, so it should be difficult to get lost forever.”
They were the last words Dial received from his son.
… Roman had raised his son to be fearless, to be at home in earth’s wildest places, travelling together through rugged Alaska to remote Borneo and Bhutan. Was he responsible for his son’s fate? Or, as he hoped, was Cody Roman safe and using his wilderness skills on a solo adventure from which he would emerge at any moment?
You might have seen the documentary Missing Dial on National Geographic channel.
The parents agreed to participate out of desperation to continue the search for their missing son. They are disappointed in how it turned out. Wild hyperbole and speculation.
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