Expeditions

[Guest]

Any of you do something like this?

I am thinking of biking up to the Hudson Bay via the James Bay highway next year. 

[Mel81x+]

Once every two years i try and do something of the sort but more on my feet and less on bikes. Two years ago I did a trek around the Himalayan area, I didn't want to do base-camp as that thing is fucked beyond fucked and I dont want to go anywhere near it. So instead, we did the Kedarkantha Trek which is quite lovely and a bit long but good as well. If you ever come down this way and want a moderately easy trek its good.

https://indiahikes.com/kedarkantha/

I've got Bhutan in my sights this year but I'll need two weeks out to go up there and spend some time in other areas around it as well. 

[nudge]

You got me excited a little with the topic title there; thought it's going to be related to exploration journeys into the unknown and discoveries and scientific research   

I did a few jungle and mangrove forest treks in Cambodia but nothing too extreme.

My biggest "bucket list" item is still a lengthy trip around Southeast Asia on a motorbike.

 

[CaaC (John)+]

Good topic (Thread), bushwalking, I did in Australia when I was around 20 years old when we had a house right in the bush area of Victoria in Daylesford, they would tell you then not to do that but I had two dogs (Bitches) named Penny & Threepenny at that time and they were loyal as fuck, I would get up and wander around the bush, looking at old mines dug in the ground from years gone by and I loved it, Daylesford was just outside Bendigo & Ballarat.

I would wander sometimes for around 3-4 hours at a time, I would always leave 'Markers' like broken twigs where I was going so I could track back when going home but I did not need them as I would say to Penny & Threepenny " Time to go home girls" and I would just follow them back sniffing the ground and go past my broken twigs.

[Stan]

Biggest 'expedition' I did was probably October 2017 and climbing up Mount Snowdon if that counts. 

Better than I thought it'd be considering I forgot my walking shoes and there was nowhere to get any before we started walking up. So ended up wearing my Adidas NMDs . Thankfully wasn't too bad despite being on apparently the hardest route up. 

 

If wandering round Kruger Park as part of a 2-week holiday to South Africa counts then that trumps the above by some distance... 

[Toinho]

If Mt Fuji counts I did that but started about halfway up. Still took me 7 hours overnight to try get a nice sunrise but got clouds and lightning instead.