Since the start of this website we’ve ranked the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island our favourite multi-day hike anywhere.
Click PLAY or Jeff Pelletier’s 2017 hike on YouTube.
If you’d like to plan to do the WCT yourself, check our information page.
Reservations start in early January for June – September of the same year.
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Bill “One Gallon” Nedderman is the the first person ever to complete North America’s big three hiking trails (the PCT, Appalachian Trail, and Continental Divide Trail) four times each.
He’s hiked 50,000 miles. Paddled 44,000 miles. Cycled 64,000 miles.
Camped more than 6,000 nights.
He doesn’t post anything online nor does he keep a hard copy journal.
Read an interview on Adventure Journal.
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I was planning on making this trek August 2020 …
… not much chance it’s going to happen this year. #COVID-19
Atlas & Boots was there in 2019:
My 14-day K2 base camp trek in Karakoram mountains of #Pakistan, followed by a crossing of the technical Gondogoro La Pass.
At 8,611m (28,251ft), #K2 is the second highest mountain in the world.
The K2 base camp trek route is via Concordia, the confluence of the Baltoro and Godwin-Austen glaciers at around 4,700m (15,419ft).
It is one of the few places in the world where you can see four 8,000m peaks: K2, Broad Peak, Gasherbrum I and Gasherbrum II.
Read the trip report.
Click PLAY or watch their trip on YouTube.
UPDATE – National Parks in Chile have been closed.
If you’ve ever researched the Paine Circuit in Chile, you know that it’s complicated.
Difficult to make reservations from overseas.
Happily, Kraig Adams arrived March 2020 with no reservation and yet had a terrific hike. The last half of the video is TIPS on how you could do the same.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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AT A GLANCE
Read more on our Paine Circuit information page.
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Sheltering in place is NOT going to stop BRIANA VENSKUS from hiking.
No way. 
Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.
View this post on InstagramHitting the Trails #quarantine
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Hike in place does not mean to literally walk in place. No, instead, the Superior Hiking Trail Association encourages people to rediscover hikes and nature in your neighborhood. …
As I’m physically isolating in a small town on Vancouver Island, each day I’m cycling, running or walking the closest parks.
Michael Atkinson places himself in the historic predicament of two stranded German aviators in 1932 to see if the his skills as a survival instructor, pilot and adventurer will allow him to escape to the nearest civilization.
It is a gripping film.
I learned a lot about surviving in the harsh Australian coastal wilderness.
The most remarkable feature of this documentary is its mode of filming. It is not performed by any film crew that follows his journey. It is single-handedly managed by Mike through drones and cameras so it preserves the natural element. The breathtaking pictures of the ocean, varied shades of the waters, flora and fauna of marine sea and the natural cliffs along the coast paint an excellent landscape for the viewers. It manages to take one to an unexplored world …
Watch the hour long documentary FREE on TubiTV.
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No doubt you are trying to convince non-hiking friends and family now with plenty of time available to get out on some trails.
It’s ideal social distancing.
Paula Casey sends these tips for them.
Click for a larger version of the infographic.
Backpackers Review recommends a 13 mile loop/circuit including Takakkaw Falls, the Iceline Trail, Little Yoho Valley, and Laughing Falls.
Check it out. A classic.
One of our best hikes in North America.
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Mac:
… The Pacific Crest Trail Association, the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy have all officially requested hikers to postpone or cancel their thru-hikes
… (in related news, the Arizona Trail Association and the Great Divide Trail Association have done the same). …
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Your Pacific Crest Trail Thru-hike Is Canceled
You can certainly still day hike. And should be able to plan multi-day hikes.
BUT check camping and resupply options. California State Parks, for example, has closed all campgrounds.
