Wild camping: No and accomodation: moderate for GR20 ?? AFAIK you can rent tents at every checkpoint for like 5 euros and sleep close to the small "mountain house" there. What more do you want ? A swimming-pool ?
updated :)
Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world
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#122Great site! One (small) complaint: the site scrolls back up every time you close a popup.
Thank you! I'll check this out
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#123Neat little resource! My personal favorite is https://myhikes.org which is an independent hiking site similar to this, but focuses mostly on northeast public lands in the US.
Thank you! I often refer to our national trails website in the UK for local hikes https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/
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#124Super cool! Quick comment. Check your site on mobile, the suggest bar did some weird text wrapping to make it seems to say "this list is growing Dont email me" and I think with a line break or two in there it would be clearer that you want them! I can email a screenshot if you like
Thank you! I spotted this comment late but I think the issue should be sorted now
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#126Nice list! Noticed a few decent US hiking trails that aren't on it though. There are tons more of course, especially if you include BDR stuff. Ice age trail - https://www.iceagetrail.org Superior hiking trail - https://superiorhiking.org/ John Muir trail - https://www.johnmuirtrail.org/ Long trail - https://www.greenmountainclub.org/the-long-trail/ Pacific Crest trail - https://www.pcta.org/ Hayduke trail - http://ww…
Adding my two favorite adventure hikes (hike into caves, up ladders, to waterfalls, rock scramble, etc..not just a trail through the woods)... Old Rag Mountain (Shenadoah, VA) https://home.nps.gov/places/old-rag.htm and The Mohonk Labrynth Trail (Catskills, NY.. so much fun hiking in caves, up ladders, etc) https://www.mohonk.com/a-day-at-mohonk/hiking/
This site is about long distance trails--things that take weeks or months to complete, not stuff like your Old Rag for which every listed hike is in day-hike range. I don't see trail distances on your second link but once again it appears to be day-hiking.
Considering the US ones on that list--there are people that have managed to do all three in one year, albeit with some flip-flopping. There are more of them than there are moonwalkers.....still living.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's my backpacking list: https://www.notion.so/backpacking-aaf9b1959c57448ca86b9b481a... Note: backpacking is ALL about preparation. Make a good list and you'll be good.
> cup coozie What? Why? > matches ... lighter Why both? I just bring two lighters > Selfie stick ... hiking poles I find the more stuff I bring, the more frustrated I get unpacking and packing each night and day. Of course there’s the weight thing, too, but anyway try to pack your things in cloth or plastic baggies for separation. I use the zippered pouches that are sold for this purpose in luggage when traveling. Al…
Hiking poles are a matter of the trail and the state of your body. These days I always bring mine but in general they spend far more time in a hand than actually being used.
Flat terrain or gentle climbs, I find no value in poles. Steep climbs (basically anything that has or should have switchbacks, or anything with steps) my knees are happier with them but it's not that big a deal.
Descending--this is why I carry them. Even a pretty gentle descent is going to hurt my knees if I don't have my poles.
As for lighters--disposable lighters run on butane. Butane has a boiling point of 32F. Good luck using your lighter if it gets too cold! Also, the matches in my pack can be lit and dropped into tinder sheltered under other wood, a lighter can't be. My emergency gear contains a cylinder of matches, each match held in it's own hole so there's no possibility of them rubbing against each other. (No lighter, though--where I hike an emergency fire would be difficult, campfires are almost always prohibited.)
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#128There are some nice hiking routes also in the Pyrenees.
For example Carros de foc (https://www.carrosdefoc.com/en/). I hiked there 2 years ago in September. Weather was great, no bears, cottages to stay over night and with good dinners. I think it was perfect for beginners: there were some demanding parts, but no special equipment needed.
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#129Is there a good resource or tutorial on how one would prepare and execute one of these hikes? I would love to try a multi-day hike, but I have zero experience camping / backpacking. Where to get started? Are there hikes for complete novices that e.g. go from town to town with places to stay overnight?
Start small and go with people who are more experienced--inexperienced people should not be in the backcountry alone! For complete novices I would suggest looking on Meetup for hiking groups, start out with the shortest stuff they offer.
The short stuff also has the advantage that your costs are minimal. You likely have most everything you would need except possibly a pack and pretty much anything will do for a short hike. The people doing the trails on that list will generally have basically everything they're carrying (other than consumables) being high-end stuff specifically for hikers/backpackers. Consider the highest mountain locally--at the trailheads you see plenty of people in anything, even a decent number simply carrying a water bottle and that's it. On the summit (a long hike, no mountaineering) I would say 90% of the gear I see is the good stuff.
Or consider an experience from last year--we got a last-minute message from the leader, she had car trouble and couldn't get there. We were supposed to be six, but one new person failed to find us at the trailhead so four of us set off. It was dusk when we left, soon turning to night, and without our leader we definitely had some pathfinding problems. We were all glad the new woman didn't find us--we were all experienced, the fact that we were out at night in the desert and didn't know where the trail was was of no concern to us (we could see civilization and there wasn't any substantial obstacle to simply heading for it) we were thinking about how she would have reacted to the situation.
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#130One glaring flaw I note: The pages for the various trails should link to websites about the trail. I hadn't heard of the one in Israel and it really surprised me, I can't imagine how it fits--but I would have to resort to Google to learn more about it.