“Walking is man’s best medicine”. – Hippocrates The Sixth Week – Perseverance Will Prevail Into the desert proper… Taking respite from the sun under a cactus palm as we cross the western arm of…
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“Potest quia posse videntur – He can because he thinks he can”. – From ‘The Pacific Crest Trail’, Cicerone, by Brian Johnson Muir The Fifth Week – Turning Into Walking Machines… Celebrating being a…
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“Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life”. – Terri Guillemets The Fourth Week – In It For The Long Haul… This week we reached 300 miles…
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“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out I found was really going in”. – John Muir The Third Week – Upping Our Game……
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“To walk for long periods is to escape the quotidian, to leave jobs, people and life’s minutiae for routines of a different, more nourishing kind. The effects of solitude, like those of landscape, accrue…
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“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time”. – Steven Wright The First Week – Breaking Ourselves In! Beginning our dream hike across western USA on the Pacific Crest Trail. Day 1 –…
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Walking 2,659 Miles In The Wilderness… Hiking this distance, whilst being completely self-sufficient takes a lot of preparation. So where to begin? Planning for a hike of such magnitude can seem more than a…
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The Last Leg… After 12 days on such an incredible trail, we felt a wave of sadness that our adventure in the Pyrenees was coming to an end so quickly. Having experienced some of…
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A Head For Heights… Launching ourselves into what would be our penultimate day on the GR11, we found that the trail once again took us to higher elevations. The shaded forests and wild meadows we had…
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Entering The Posets-Maladeta Natural Park… Having already been blown away by the spectacular scenery in the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park just a few days earlier, we didn’t expect more ‘wow’ moments so…
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Defining Degrees Of Difficulty… With regards to the level of ‘difficulty’ of a trail – ‘difficult’ can take many forms and be the difference between an experience of a lifetime or a disaster for different…
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Tackling The Lost Mountain… As the third highest mountain in the Pyrenees, ranking only below Pico de Aneto (3,404m) and Posets (3,371m), Monte Perdido at 3,355 metres stands as the highest summit in the…
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The Hardest Mile… Usually after the first week on any thru-hike we have our camp routines well refined and feel completely trail fit to tackle whatever we’re presented with along the way. Today however put…
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Mountain Highs… Bordering on the French Midi-Pyrenees, in the District of Aragon in the north of Spain, is one of the most unusual and spectacular mountain cliffs in Europe and one of the largest…
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Bagging A Zero Day! A ‘Zero Day’ is literally a day in which you do no hiking, hence you cover zero miles and make no progress towards your end goal. It can be an…
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Marvelling At Magnificent Mountain Lakes… One of the striking features of the GR11 is the amount of reservoirs, lakes and tarns you pass along the trail. From the calm, crystal clear Ibons d’ Anayet…