Cerro Cucurucho (Guatemala)

Submitted by pbakwin on Thu, 07/25/2019 - 11:57am
Description

This route ascends the Cerro Cucurucho (Cucurucho Hill) within a private nature reserve called Finca El Pilar. The reserve is an easy taxi or bus ride from Antigua center. Round trip distance for the route is 9.54 miles with 3,569 ft of gain (15.4 Km/ 1,088 m gain). There is a fee to enter the reserve of 50 quetzals. This is a renowned area for bird and butterfly watching, as well as containing some of the most intact forest cover in the region. It's a marvelous place that is highly worth a visit, even if not attempting the FKT.

He Devil & She Devil (ID)

Submitted by pbakwin on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 04:30pm
Description

He Devil and She Devil are two peaks at about 9400ft elevation in Idaho that are considered co-highpoints of the Seven Devils Mountains unless a modern survey can determine that one is higher by a few feet. Flanked on either side by two major river canyons, including one of the deepest in the country, one of these peaks is one of Idaho's 3 ultraprominent summits. Because He and She Devil are separated by less than half a mile of class 3-4 terrain and only 600 vertical feet, peakbaggers interested in this statistic often visit both in a single day.

Tour de Vaud (Switzerland)

Submitted by pbakwin on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 04:07pm
Description

Loïc Gerber proposed this 280km scenic tour of the Swiss Canton de Vaud:

The traversee (crossing) of an entire area in Switzerland which is called « Canton de Vaud ». The Route begins to the east and finishes to the west and goes by the north (the route make a triangle form). The Route is divided in 4 different parts : 1. High Mountains, Flat, Medium Mountains, Lake (Préalpds Vaudoises, Plateau, Jura Vaudois, Lac Léman).