Category: Thru-hike
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The E8 Trail Day Eight: Carrick on Suir to Clonmel
View trail on HiiKER One of my favourite days on trail coming up here. Carrick on Suir was very, very kind to me with a night of rest, good food and drinks, friends, a comfy bed and a warm bath. It’s impoirtant to plan ahead with these things, I’m quite the planner as anyone close…
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The E8 Trail Day Seven: Mullinavat to Carrick on Suir
View the trail on HiiKER A week! A week of walking. After a lovely stay in Reades, where I was fed very well by Margaret (bread and bread and bread), I set off on a sunny morning. Back onto road but well rested and with some dry(ish) boots on my feet. One of the more…
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The E8 Trail Day Six: Graiguenamanagh to Mullinavat
View the E8 on HiiKER There are certain days on trail that tend to become a big mess of the same old, same old country road and forestry track just repeating themselves over and over again until eventually you get to where you need to be. A metaphor for life or what, dear reader? Day…
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The HiiKER Podcast – Season 3 Episode 5 – Solal Hohn
Solal Hohn is on a “Tour du Mond”. He left his home in Paris and headed east and will keep going, across all continents (except Antartica and the Arctic) until he gets home. He has traversed the Alps and is heading into unknown territory. He plans to cross the pacific by boat and complete the…
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The HiiKER Podcast – Season 3 Episode 4 – “Easy” Dexter Barnes
Dexter Barnes is not one for the spotlight. His laid-back demeanour while hiking long distances earned him the name “easy dexter”. But while his attitude might seem “easy”, he has hiked over 2000 miles in 2021, including the end to end trail, the southwest coast path and an unsupported FKT on the Coast to Coast…
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The HiiKER Podcast – Season 3 Episode 3 – Charlie McRae-Tod
Charlie McRae-Tod is an Actor, Hiker and Type 1 Diabetic from the UK. He chats with Eoin about his recent discovery of long-distance hiking and dealing with Type 1 Diabetes as a thru-hiker.
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Thru-Hiking the Uinta Highline Trail: 100 Miles of High Alpine Wilderness in Utah
Utah has so much more than red rocks, desert landscapes, and skiing. In the North Eastern tip of the state, the Uinta Mountain Range stretches from East to West and offers some of the best backpacking, fishing, peak-bagging, and exploring in the country. The Uinta Highline Trail traverses this range from East to West, climbing…
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The HiiKER Podcast – Season 3 Episode 2 – Davina Farrer
Davina Farrer recently completed the South West coast path (and change) as a bit of a homecoming to the coast. As a mother who has spent most of her adult life working in an office and living for a couple of weeks annual leave per year, she grew tired of being inland and decided to…
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Milford Track, New Zealand: “the finest walk in the world”
Often lauded as the “finest walk in the world”, the Milford Track is one of New Zealand’s best accessible backcountry treks.
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Thru-hiking the 102-mile Cotswold Way
A true taste of the Cotswolds Beautifully distinctive honey-coloured stone, quaint villages that seem to have been frozen in time, traditional dry stone walls at every turn; picturesque pubs and manicured gardens with creeping roses… I think if you’d never been to England before this is what you would imagine it all to look like.…
