I had made this com­pre­hen­sive list of all the things that I want­ed to men­tion in this final post for the Africa hike and all of the amaz­ing, eye-open­ing things that had hit me upon re-entry to the U.S. That might have been too long of an entry to keep everybody’s atten­tion any­way, but the […]

I flew to Nor­way direct­ly after fin­ish­ing the Ice­land hike. I had intend­ed to hike the length of Norway/Sweden fol­low­ing the crest of the Scan­di­na­vian Moun­tains from Trom­so in the north to the south­ern coast either around Bergen or Sta­vanger. On the flight from Ice­land I real­ized that I dras­ti­cal­ly under­es­ti­mat­ed the mileage and I […]

On June 14th, 2008 I start­ed hik­ing from Husavik on the north­ern coast of Ice­land. I fin­ished hik­ing across Ice­land on the morn­ing of June 26, on the south­ern coast just south of Skog­ar. The route that I took was prob­a­bly a lit­tle over 350 miles. The hike was phe­nom­e­nal and the scenery was stunning […]

Start­ing from the south­ern tip of the South Island I made my way to the north­ern end through the South­ern Alps. The scenery was stun­ning and the topog­ra­phy was steep and amaz­ing. New Zealand is plan­ning a long dis­tance hik­ing trail some­where along this route, but noth­ing has been built yet. So much of this […]