World Wild Hearts were hiking many of the same routes in the Lofoten Islands as me summer of 2022.
They put together a terrific video showing some of the best of the best.
AND I’m hoping to get back to Lofoten summer 2023.
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Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders (2022) is deep dive into the unsolved murder of two free-spirited young women in the wilderness, a journalist’s obsession—and a new theory of who might have done it.
In May 1996, two skilled backcountry leaders, Lollie Winans and Julie Williams, entered Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park for a week-long backcountry camping trip.
… During their final days in the park, they descended the narrow remnants of a trail and pitched their tent in a hidden spot. After the pair didn’t return home as planned, park rangers found a scene of horror at their campsite, their tent slashed open, their beloved dog missing, and both women dead in their sleeping bags.
The unsolved murders of Winans and Williams continue to haunt all who had encountered them or knew their story.
My hometown stomping grounds.
Sunshine Meadows to Assiniboine is one of our top 10 hikes in the world.
This video includes many other great options.
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Over the pandemic, I really got into creating hiking videos. Learning how to edit. Getting a drone. I had the time.
Time enough to launch the BestHike YouTube channel.
I was based out of my parent’s house on Vancouver Island.
Over the pandemic weeks and months, I closely followed David’s I’d Rather Be Hiking YouTube channel and Facebook page.
David is also based out of Vancouver Island. And inspired many of my own hikes there.
Click PLAY or learn about his story it on YouTube.
The average Pacific Crest Trail hiker 2022 spent $9593 on the adventure. Plus $1510 updating gear.
Details on Mac’s Halfway Anywhere Pacific Crest Trail Hiker Survey (2022)
Details on Mac’s Halfway Anywhere Pacific Crest Trail Hiker Survey (2022)
There is much, much more on the Halfway Anyway survey results page.
Some of the BEST video clips captured by BestHike editor Rick McCharles in 2022.
Norway, Portugal, Spain, Canary Islands, finishing in British Columbia.
His favourite music of 2022 was by Odesza — so it’s appropriate that the soundtrack is one of their songs: Wide Awake.
Here’s to us all being Wide Awake in 2023.
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For comparison, before Rick got a drone, here’s his 2021 Highlights VIDEO.
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We’ve always ranked Hong Kong as the city with the best hiking within easy range of local transit.
It’s included in one list posted by Matador:
One hike that’s easily as good as those is in Valencia, Spain.
Unless you are Bear Grylls being followed by a film crew, making a video of yourself outdoors is tough.
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Bear often has a story producer, two camera cinematographers, two field recordists, and a mountain guide with him. Paul “Mungo” Mungeam is a cameraman who’s spent 10-years with Bear.
