For You Long Distance HIkers
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wrote on 12 Apr 2023, 15:20 last edited by
What does it mean to walk around the world? In a pedestrian circumnavigation, travellers must move around the globe and return to their starting point under their own power. Guinness World Records sets the requirements for a circumnavigation on foot as having travelled 18,000 miles (nearly 29,000km), and crossed four continents.
Turcich walked 21-24 miles a day for roughly half of the seven years he was away. In total, he walked 28,000 miles (and Savannah 25,000 miles), travelled through 38 countries and crossed every continent except Australia, which he couldn’t do because of lockdown restrictions. He is the 10th person to have walked the world, and he assumes Savannah is the first dog to have done so.
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wrote on 12 Apr 2023, 15:58 last edited by
Wow thank you so much to sharing that! I am looking for a map of his route, but came across a few links.
His website: https://www.tomturcich.com/
Some videos:
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wrote on 12 Apr 2023, 16:36 last edited by
Yes. Thanks @taiwan_girl for this. What an adventurous 7 yrs. he’s had.
I knew a non athlete 40ish y.o. lady who did a cross country Spanish trek (is it called a Camino?). She felt her life was at a stale mate and believed this walk would give her direction for her future. And it did. When she came back she quit her lux fashionista career, moved to B.C., met a man, and sold cars at a dealership. She helped inspire my ‘train to travel’ plan for a few cities and marathons. I sure learned lots of myself then. Those little trips let me see places I’d only seen in magazines or on T.V. -
wrote on 12 Apr 2023, 17:01 last edited by
I have put 20K+ miles on my treadmill, that is more than walking around the world.
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wrote on 12 Apr 2023, 17:10 last edited by
@Copper said in For You Long Distance HIkers:
I have put 20K+ miles on my treadmill, that is more than walking around the world.
Turcich walks 28k miles to end up where he started.
@Copper walks 20+k miles without leaving where he started.Both went a long way to go no where.
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@Copper said in For You Long Distance HIkers:
I have put 20K+ miles on my treadmill, that is more than walking around the world.
Turcich walks 28k miles to end up where he started.
@Copper walks 20+k miles without leaving where he started.Both went a long way to go no where.
wrote on 12 Apr 2023, 20:54 last edited by@Axtremus said in For You Long Distance HIkers:
went a long way to go no where.
I thought we were talking about a long distance hiker, not your posting style?
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@Axtremus said in For You Long Distance HIkers:
went a long way to go no where.
I thought we were talking about a long distance hiker, not your posting style?
wrote on 12 Apr 2023, 20:56 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in For You Long Distance HIkers:
@Axtremus said in For You Long Distance HIkers:
went a long way to go no where.
I thought we were talking about a long distance hiker, not your posting style?
Can do both. Ain't no rule against it.
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wrote on 12 Apr 2023, 22:50 last edited by
Nephew did the Appalachian Trail and thoroughly enjoyed it. I can't even conceive of going that far, let alone around the world.
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wrote on 13 Apr 2023, 00:53 last edited by
One step at a time. People I have talked to that have done a lot of long distance hiking say that the biggest challenge is the mental part rather than the physical.
I think it would cool to do the AT, but probably will start with something a bit easier. (Arctic Circle Trail in Greenland anyone?
https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/1800/who-wants-to-take-a-walk-arctic-circle-trail?_=1681347151438 ) -
wrote on 13 Apr 2023, 21:33 last edited by George K
Looking for a fun walking holiday to get back in shape? Here’s a challenge. Stretching 14,000 miles (22,387km) from Cape Town in South Africa to Magadan in Russia, this route might be the world’s longest walk, and it certainly sounds gruelling.
Credit for this lengthy route goes to Reddit user cbz3000, who drew it up on Google Maps in 2019. Claiming it to be the longest walking distance possible on the site, they found a route that required no flights, ferry’s (sic) or other boat-crossings: just open roads and bridges. The route takes the brave traveller up through Africa, past the Suez Canal, through Turkey, Central Asia and across Siberia to Magadan.
