6 Skills You Need to Have for Off Trail Hiking!
Off trail hiking made me fall in love with the outdoors. Before heading out on your own off trail hiking trip, here are the skills you need to know!
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Trip reports and hard-won advice from the outdoors.
108 posts and 152,426 words on climbing, canyoning and hiking across New Zealand and Australia — plus the gear and skills to get out there yourself.
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Hiking the Routeburn Track in Winter!
While the majority see it in the busy summer, winter can also be a fantastic time to see the Routeburn track with some planning and preparation...
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Your guide to Hiking in Winter!
Hiking in winter can be an amazing experience, with white landscapes offering stunning vistas. Here is all you need to know about hiking in winter!
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Canyoning Down the Eagles Nest. A Fantastic (but Long) Canyoning Trip
Located in the Dart Valley, New Zealand, Eagles Nest canyon is a massive canyon with over 40 abseils! Find out how my adventure down from the Eagles Nest went!
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How to Use a Bivy Sack: Your Guide to Sleeping in Bivy Sacks!
One of the best ways of going ‘light’ while spending nights outdoors and getting close to nature is with a bivy sack! Here is how to use a bivy sack!
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How to Find Adventure Buddies
Finding other adventure buddies can often be the hardest part about getting outdoors when you are starting or have moved someplace new. Heres how you can do it!
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How to Maximize Your Weekend Adventures!
Working a 9 to 5 job? Only have the weekends for free time? Here is how to maximize those weekends and have epic adventures!
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The Vertical Adventurer ran from 2017 to 2022, then went offline when the domain lapsed. Every post here was recovered from the Wayback Machine and rebuilt as a plain static site, images and all. The original archive is on GitHub.