From Mount Torlesse to Red Peak in Torlesse Range, Canterbury
Another trip with the Christchurch Tramping Club. It was me and 3 more guys. This is a great number to travel safely and efficiently in the mountains.
Winter hikes
Mt Misery via Snowslide Stream, Black Range, Canterbury
After my last trip with the Christchurch Tramping Club to Boundary Creek Hut, I felt pretty motivated to try out something harder this time. Just clearly based on its name, Mt Misery sounded hard enough to me. There were 18 of us that day. It was Sunday morning and we arrived at the parking lot at the corner of West Coast Road and Cass Road.
Boundary Creek Hut with a stop by Lake Mystery
So I did it. I joined the Christchurch Tramping Club. I have to say that I was a bit suspicious of what it was going to be like to hike in a group of a dozen hikers with different life and tramping experience under their belts. Well, I have to say now that it was great fun!
Hiking the Cobbler and Beinn Narnain in the Most Epic Light
There is barely a more iconic mountain in the Southern Highlands of Scotland than The Cobbler, also called Ben Arthur. It has such a good position within the Arrochar Alps that when hikers climb it, they often add in some of the other surrounding peaks like Beinn Narnain or Beinn Íme (to bag a few more munros in one trip).
Two good days of hiking the Cathar Way in the winter
The Cathar Way is a roughly 240 km hike in the south of France, one of my favourite places in the world. It follows the historical sites of the Cathars through the Eastern foothills of the Pyrenees, passing through villages with stone houses often at least a few centuries old.
Around the land d’Aillou
Somewhere in the southern France, within sight of Andorra, in the Eastern Pyrenees and about 1200 m above the sea level lies the plateau d’Aillou…
Le Peyrat to Sainte-Colombe-sur-l’Hers loop walk
If you are in the Cathar Region and feel like doing something easy and flat, walking around Le Peyrat could be a good option for you…
Snowshoeing trip in Massif de Tabe: across le Taulat
Snowshoeing is a big thing in the Pyrenees. When the conditions are good at the tops, you can meet guided groups or individuals trudging along the ridges to get a bit of winter sun on their cheeks…
Fougax et Barrineuf – Montségur big loop hike
It’s actually not as big as it sounds, but you should reserve all day for this in case it gets too muddy in the forest. As is often with other things in life too, the hardest is to start…
Around Lake Montbel
Lake Montbel is a quiet reservoir close to Chalabre. In the summer it’s a popular swimming spot and in the winter, when the water level is low, it calls all the hikers and mountain bikers from local towns…