Viajarapie is about long distance hiking. The name is in Spanish and it’d roughly translate into Travelling On Foot. The focus is on wilderness, self supported travel and all related aspects: gear, skills, ethics, DIY and the simple joy of being out in nature, feeling back home.
It’s on foot that the world gets big again.
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2016-06-23Thinking ultralight challenges the doctrine and the doctrine inevitably strikes back. This is about some of the usual arguments thrown on all over the ultralight style
2016-06-20The base idea is to cross the island north to south …
2016-06-08Packing for a ski trip is not the same as packing for hiking on dirt and the differences are well beyond the obvious. It's a packing style of its own.
2016-06-03First it was GSM. Then it was GPS. Then I got PLB. Everytime defines a milestone from which hiking will never be the same again.
2016-05-23One of the problems with rain jackets is what happens at their lower edge: water drips down over a sensitive area. It may make sense to move the drip line further down.- 2016-04-21the same techniques that render a featherweight summer pack put a brick on your shoulders in the winter. It may seem obvious why but let’s do a bit of analysis
2016-04-01Human pressure is an environmental issue pretty much everywhere the average human can reach. Protection figures are the common answer but they have limited effectiveness as they often fail to address the root of the problem: ease of access.
2016-03-11This is now an internationally famous trail, allegedly …
2016-02-02I had this revelation moment once during the early days of my hiking career. It was a very silly thing but it was symbolic. It opened a big door.