y2y would be awesome..
best trails
I think right now my top choice would be the GR 5 that goes from Holland to Nice and traverses the French Alps!
Second choice, the IAT from Katahdin to Gaspe.
Third choice, the PCT, but skipping the desert part in the south.
David
Which Trail
Being a novice hiker I have yet to finish the AT. So I guess this is the one that I would like to hike the most......I just need to win the lottery or my son get one of his books published....Oh well I guess I will just have to do it one section at a time.
As someone else has already said.....so much trail and so little time.
"It's a dangerous business...going out your door. You step onto the trail, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."
Bilbo
I would like to hike the CDT, but continue it on down through Central America into the Andes and Patagonia.. how long would that be?
2nd place would be from Coast to Coast because it wouldn't be the same type of hiking all the time.. ocean...mountains...prairie...mountains...ocean, or something like that.
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Camino de Santiago (Spain), Via Francigena (Rome-Canterbury), hike through Switzerland or England (pub to pub) and then the Alps.
2010 AT NoBo Thru "attempt" (guess 1,700 miles didn't quite get me all the way through ;) )
Various adventures in Siberia 2016
Adventures past and present!
(and maybe 2018 PCT NoBo)
Gotta be hiking in New Zealand. Beautiful trails
If you find yourself in a fair fight; your tactics suck.
Outside of the CONUS, definitely the South Island of New Zealand, the Kalalau Trail along the Nā Pali Coast on Kauai, some of the hikeable high peaks of the Alps (no technical climbing for me!), Machu Picchu, the Scottish Highlands, and maybe Kilimanjaro, Hadrian's Wall, and GR10 in the Pyrenees.
Of course, most of these would come after my completing the AT, and then the John Muir, Cohos, and Wonderland trails. The real problem will be time and aging of select body parts.
GA←↕→ME: 1973 to 2014
I'd love to finish the "Triple Crown" one day, but at the moment, I'm not even going to attempt to focus on anything other than the AT. Gotta face facts, if everyone who "wanted" to thru the AT made it, there wouldn't be a 75% attrition rate. So for now...the AT. After that, we'll see.
Pyro - Bringin' the heat! '11 Safety Tribe firestarter
2011 - Springer to Pearisburg
My dream is to complete the Triple Crown, but I'd love to hike any one of them, preferably the PCT or CDT.
After that, the Te Aroroa in New Zealand looks amazing.
Yep, definitely. I live in New Zealand and I'm still in high school for another year (probably) but after that I may end up hiking the Te Araroa trail from Cape Reinga to Bluff. It looks so beautiful.Originally Posted by echoes
End to end Te Aroroa in New Zealand, Andes(from Bolivia to the southern tip of S America, mostly bushwacking), CDT, and the recently designated Great Tibet/Nepal Trl.
Heck, you could spend a lifetime in the U.S. alone giving some very serious extremely worthy hiking time to the National Parks. And, what about the Canadian NPs? They are no slouches either!
Off-trail in Banff NP this past summer. Life is good...
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If you need any information about Te Araroa don't hesitate to ask as I have been researching it for a while.
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