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Awesome, truly awesome, not really my cup of tea mind you but i know my cousin would snap his arm off for a chance to do something like that.
Nope, your not mad. Sounds a great trip to me. How long will that take?
90 miles in 3 days is pretty good going! 30 miles in a day is decent mileage, but 3 days in a row is hard. Some people on the PCT try to do a 'pyramid', which is 30miles, 40miles, 50miles, 40miles, 30miles. I would love to try it, but it sounds painful! But a 190miles in 5 days would be good going.
Read it again. Absolutely incredible. Would love such an opportunity. Just finishing uni so would need to get some cash together.
Would also have to do it solo as I wouldn't know anyone mad enough to try it.
If you can't afford things like this, there are always other challenges closer to home. There is the TGO challenge, which crosses Scotland. Europe also have a load of long distance trails;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_long-distance_paths
If you need inspiration for adventures, then check out AL Humphreys blog and videos;
http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/
He has cycled around the world, and is currently rowing the atlantic, but he has also done smaller 'micro adventures' such as crossing the Shetland Isles by folding bike and packraft, or living like a Caveman for a few days.
In other news, this weekend was spent doing a 2 day first aid course. We did the Outdoor First Aid & Incident Management by ITC. Great course and very useful. I feel more more confident than after any other first aid course I have done. The group were all great, and the trainer really knew his stuff and did a great job.
If you can't afford things like this, there are always other challenges closer to home. There is the TGO challenge, which crosses Scotland. Europe also have a load of long distance trails;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_long-distance_paths
If you need inspiration for adventures, then check out AL Humphreys blog and videos;
http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/
He has cycled around the world, and is currently rowing the atlantic, but he has also done smaller 'micro adventures' such as crossing the Shetland Isles by folding bike and packraft, or living like a Caveman for a few days.
In other news, this weekend was spent doing a 2 day first aid course. We did the Outdoor First Aid & Incident Management by ITC. Great course and very useful. I feel more more confident than after any other first aid course I have done. The group were all great, and the trainer really knew his stuff and did a great job.
Closer to home would be more feasible, but I love the idea of going through that part of America so would probably just want to save up for it.
Would be better to go with someone seeing as it would lower the cost I'd imagine, as well as shared weight. Will have to get someones interest in this piqued.
Soldato
How many people are on the trail at any one time roughly?
How many towns will you pass through?
How many sets of boots do you expect to go through?
Good luck!
How many towns will you pass through?
How many sets of boots do you expect to go through?
Good luck!
As opposed to what? Even as a student, I can see this as a stretch of time not many have, and to do something as enjoyable as this is something lots of people can dream of.
Even at the age of 22 I'm already seeing you can't get the years back. I would hate to be that person that grew old without having done the things I desired and that I could do.
Soldato
Its only a waste of time as much as any activity is, isnt that what we are all doing after all, just wasting time until we die? Sounds like a pretty good waste of time to me.
Soldato
wow that looks awesome, how much will it set you back ?
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Closer to home would be more feasible, but I love the idea of going through that part of America so would probably just want to save up for it.
Would be better to go with someone seeing as it would lower the cost I'd imagine, as well as shared weight. Will have to get someones interest in this piqued.
America does have the most popular long distance trail. There are 3 main ones that cross the length of the country;
The Appalachian Trail
The Pacific Crest Trail
The Continental Divide Trail
The Appalachian Trail is by far the most popular and runs along the east of the US. For me it doesn't really appeal due to becoming overly popular. You are generally closer to civilization so resupply is easier than the others.
The Pacific Crest Trail is the one I am doing and seems like a good balance of amazing wild scenery and access to resupply towns. It is also the westerly most one.
The Continental Divide Trail also looks amazing, but it a fair bit more hardcore. It runs along the Pacific/Atlantic water drainage line and crosses some stunning terrain. It is also only 70% complete, so you have to make up significant parts of the trail and far fewer people do it so expect to be alone for long stretches.
About 500 people set off to thru hike it most years, and about 50-60% of them get all the way to Canada. Still less people have thru hiked the PCT than have stood on Everest. You will also get section and day hikers along the way who are doing small bits of the trail. You will be able to spot the thru hikers though as they are the ones with big beards and stink!
The amount of towns very as I depends on how far off the trail you want to go to get supplies. But generally, each section is 5-8 days between resupply.
We are each taking 5 pairs of shoes. We are using trail running shoes (I will mostly be using La Sportiva Wildcats, and Sarah is using Salomon Tianas) as they are lighter and dry faster.
I'm not sure if you are trolling or not? But assuming you are being serious, I interested to hear why you think it is a waste of time. What would you rather be doing with your time on the planet? You only get one chance at life, and I would rather not spend it sitting infront of a computer monitor, either at work or playing games. There is a world out there and I am determined to see as much of it as I can, one step at a time.
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Soldato
Any similar british trails I can do, with equal amounts of solitary walking? Fancy abit of a challange, but dont have the funds to go abroad todo one, unless theres a pretty cheap trails i can do?
There is the west highland way in Scotland.
http://www.west-highland-way.co.uk/
Its 96 miles.
Any similar british trails I can do, with equal amounts of solitary walking? Fancy abit of a challange, but dont have the funds to go abroad todo one, unless theres a pretty cheap trails i can do?
Unfortunately Britain doesn't really have the vast wildernesses that the US does.
Aye, there's the west highland way, but I hear it isn't actually that good. The Cape Wrath Trail is supposed to be one of the better UK ones.
If you are looking for nearer to home smoove, then I would probably consider some of the European ones;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_long-distance_paths
The E2 for example would be pretty good, and if you were being extra tight you could save money by swimming the channel, lol.
Actually our backup plan if we didn't get the US B2 visa was to consider something like the E1 which takes you from the Northern tip of Norway all the way down to Italy.