Ottsworld Unique Travel Experiences » Mountains

There are many kinds of hiking – day hikes, multi-day hikes, long-distance hiking, circuit hiking, pilgrimages, hut-to-hut hikes, bushwalking, thru-hikes, and more. I’ve done and enjoyed them...

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While going through the yoga teacher’s morning sun salutations I slowly rolled up into a standing position one vertebrae at a time as she instructed, and there they were, the three sisters beau...

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I’m not a huge fan of winter. Maybe that’s because I grew up in the middle of Illinois where it was cold all winter but we only got a big snowstorm a few times a season. It was just blah – ...

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I waited at the edge of the road as the big truck passed by in low gear, slowly climbing up Cunningham Gap, otherwise known as Highway 15 in Queensland. I thought about what this pass would have ...

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Hugo raced up the dirt road driving like a mad man in the beat up truck that looked like it was held together with duct tape. Dirt flew as we rounded hairpin turns way faster than I was comfortab...

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  Just when I was about to give up – I saw the coyote along the side of the snow-covered road. It turned and looked at us. Assessing our big vehicle determining friend or foe? Friend was the a...

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Calgary was surprisingly flat and barren. As we drove away from the airport, it felt like a modern Ulaanbaatar – the steppe – with no trees and rolling hills with tons of subdivisions. This w...

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Each week brings some new scenery and location for me – that’s just the way I like it. If you want to follow where I am real time – then each Friday I will post 5 of my Instagram photos fro...

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There are a number of ways you can experience Torres Del Paine Park in Patagonia – from roughing it to luxury. I was there to hike the W trek, a well known route in the shape of a W leading you...

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Equipment check… I had seen those people before – the ones with the duct-taped boots or better yet the people who left their torn-up destroyed boots on the trail as an offering to the hiking ...

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