Adelaide 100

Submitted by pbakwin on Fri, 04/17/2020 - 07:21am
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The Adelaide 100 will link up existing infrastructure, creating short distance links to create a 100km trail. Adelaide is renowned for its beautiful parks and reserves that encircle our city, enhance our suburbs, thread along our coast and feature throughout the hills. The trail will take in these beautiful areas.

The first post was installed in the Adelaide Hills, directing walkers along a short section of a road reserve along Monument Road between Norton Summit and Debneys Road.

Episode 83: Karl Egloff: He's done Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua - can he FKT all Seven Summits?

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Karl was a mountain bike racer and working as a mountain guide on Kilimanjaro when his friends, noticing he was very fit, suggested he go for Kilian Jornet's FKT.  He asked,

"Who is that?  What is an FKT?"

Karl went up and back very fast - while wearing a bike jersey - and a new career was launched. That winter he prepared for Aconcagua, and heard Kilian was going also, who then set a new FKT.  When Karl heard the time, he thought,

Long Island Circumnavigation (ME)

Submitted by pbakwin on Thu, 04/16/2020 - 01:39pm
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A circumnavigation of Long Island (just off of Portland, ME) below the high tide mark. The only deviation was running through the parking lot at the ferry landing to avoid interfering with ferry activities. Only 8 miles, but terrible footing on slippery, scrambly rocks.

--submitted by Ben Nephew

Grenzgängerweg Sonnenbühl (Germany)

Submitted by pbakwin on Thu, 04/16/2020 - 09:34am
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Der als Qualitätswanderweg ausgezeichnete GrenzgängerWeg ist ein Rundweg mit verschiedenen Einstiegsmöglichkeiten.
Zahlreiche Grenzsteine markieren die seit rund 200 Jahren existente Grenze zwischen den ehemaligen Königreichen Württemberg und Preußen. Auch heute noch findet sich im Verlauf einerseits die Grenze zwischen den Landkreise Reutlingen und Zollernalb aber auch eine religiöse und sprachliche Grenze: Das ehemals württembergische Gebiet ist evangelisch, das hohenzollerische Gebiet katholisch. ~23km