Hiking · a Vonda Wanderlist
One foot in front of the other.
4,155 places for hiking travel, gathered from every corner of the map.
The oldest travel technology still beats the rest: it is slow enough to notice things and cheap enough to do it again tomorrow.
From multi-day treks with hut stamps to twenty-minute detours that embarrass the viewpoint car park, this collection has one rule — the trail decides the schedule. Blisters are a fair exchange rate.
via Wikimedia CommonsFirst stop
Laugavegur, four days of changing planets
Rhyolite hills the colour of spice jars, obsidian fields, hot rivers, black deserts — Iceland's classic trek swaps landscapes daily like it's showing off. Book the huts early; the weather books itself.
✦ July–September · $$ · Southern Region, Iceland
“We missed the last shuttle on purpose.”
Chapter I
The long hauls
Trails measured in days, not hours, where the pack gets lighter as the excuses do. Ladders, tide tables and canyon mazes included.
Chapter II
Short walks, big payoffs
Under an hour each, no logistics, maximum reward: behind a waterfall, into a horseshoe canyon, along a gorge that looks Photoshopped and isn't.
Every place in this Wanderlist
7 places, no itinerary.
Laugavegur
Southern Region, Iceland
✦ July–September · $$
West Coast Trail
British Columbia, Canada
✦ May–September · $$
Landmannalaugar
Southern Region, Iceland
✦ July–September · $
Kerlingarfjöll
Southern Region, Iceland
✦ July–August · $
Seljalandsfoss
Southern Region, Iceland
✦ May–October · $
Fjaðrárgljúfur
Southern Region, Iceland
✦ May–September · $
Ásbyrgi
Northeastern Region, Iceland
✦ June–August · $