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Europe, Hiking, Interview, Long-Distance Hiking Trails, Pacific Crest Trail, Podcast, Thru-hike, uk, United Kingdom, Wild
The HiiKER Podcast – Season 3 Episode 6 – Chris Howard
Chris Howard is a long distance hiker and adventurer from the UK. He has always sought to push the limits of his physical and mental ability. Eoin catches up with Chris while he is walking the entire coastline of the UK, just as he is warming up from one of the most terrifying moments of…
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Europe, Hiking, Interview, Long-Distance Hiking Trails, Pacific Crest Trail, Podcast, Thru-hike, Wild
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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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 Kerry Way
In Brief Itinerary Overview As my wife and I sat overlooking Kenmare Bay, the Beara peninsula in the distance, I wondered to myself about what made the Kerry Way so enjoyable. My answer can be summed up in one word. Variation For us, the variety of this trail is what makes it so impressive; throughout…
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Cnoc na Péiste via Lough Googh Loop
These are my riches, these and the bright remembering Of ridge and buttress and sky-shouldering spire These I shall count, when I am old, of an evening, Siting by the fire. The MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, also known as Na Cruacha Dubha, or ‘the black stacks’ are home to the highest mountains in Ireland. Before the nineteenth…
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Europe, Feature, Guides, Hiking, History, Ireland, Long-Distance Hiking Trails, Short Trails, Trail, Weekend Inspiration, Wild
Mount Brandon Trail
Only a hill: earth set a little higher Above the face of the earth: a larger view Of little fields and roads: a little nigher To clouds and silence: what is it to you? Only a hill: but all of life to me, Up there, between the sunset and the sea. To really know a…
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Mount Brandon From Faha
On the brow of Brandon is mist, and rest from the racing sky: the rollers break upon Brandon, Brandon the blessed, and the seagulls cry. – Geoffrey Winthrop Young Mount Brandon (952m/3,123ft) or Cnoc Bréanainn is one of my favourite Irish summits. It is the highest point outside the chain of peaks that dominate the…
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Prince Williams Seat Loop
Prince William’s Seat… now that’s a noble sounding hill. Some say the origin of its name is attributed to the visit of the English monarch King George IV in 1821 or William III around 130 years earlier. But a huge granite tor around a kilometre-and-a-half to the west of its summit might suggest otherwise. Known…
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Carrauntoohil Via O Shea’s Gully Loop
Thomas Gallwey I saw the summer sun go down behind the sea,And o’er the pale moon grow a golden light,From lonely Caran-tual’s topmost heightTowering aloft in cloudless majesty;The serried hills beneath seem in the nightLike billowy ocean, having in its mightAnd turned to stone; while far as eye can seeThe lengthening shadows o’ver the surface…
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Lugnaquilla – Glen of Imaal
Standing over 3,000ft, Lugnaquilla (Log na Coille, ‘hollow of the wood’) boasts a range of superlatives: Highest summit (and the only one that reaches Munro standards) in Leinster, highest in County Wicklow and the highest mountain-top in Ireland outside Kerry. It’s no surprise then that it’s such a draw for hikers who get a tremendous…
