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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2019-10-23Dare to do or the inexplicable, bold push to try the difficult way when there's an easier one.
2019-10-06Past the big mountains bottleneck, a new trip begins, physical and emotionally. Still the CDT.
2019-09-24I've been dreaming and fearing the Southern Colorado part of the CDT since I started the trail. This is how it goes.
2019-09-11Three months and nearly two thousand miles after I started hiking on the Continental Divide Trail northern terminus in Waterton Park, I'm in Salida, Colorado.
2019-07-13As I write this at the public library in Darby, MT it's exactly one month since I started hiking from Waterton, AB but it feels like a year.
2019-05-30Gear for a 5 month trip? It should be pretty much the same as for any shorter one with one additional, important factor: it may be a trip through different seasons and climate areas.
2019-05-27Convertible trousers may be the best option for thru-hiking.
2019-04-01In 2019 I'll be devoting most of my year to hike the Continental Divide Trail, about five months for the hiking, the rest for dreaming and telling about it
2019-02-258 is the final day of my trip on the Via Alpina, coming out of illness to climb the last passes with the odd names