Anyone who looks at a satellite map of the mountains north of Santa Fe quickly notices a nearly perfect loop of brownish gray area. This is one of the largest areas in New Mexico of above treeline terrain. It contains nine of the 29 New Mexico 12,000 footers. They are all inside the northern half of the Pecos Wilderness.
This is an open-course loop to summit all nine peaks in any order. The nine peaks are:
This trail starts at McNess House in Yanchep National Park around Lake McNess and then heads south-east over sandy coastal bushland to its termination at Neaves Rd in Bullsbrook. Highlights of this route are the ghost house ruins, sighting of kangaroo, emu and black cockatoo and many unique floral species endemic to the Perth coastal plains. Although there is some trail maintenance, there are no water sources and much of the route is very exposed. This route is ideally attempted in winter or spring
The Heart of the Greens Loop is the first completed multi-day segment of the Velomont Trail, a collaborative project of several Vermont organizations with the goal of connecting a series of single track trails and backcountry huts along the entire length of Vermont. This loop captures the Velomont vision and turns it into reality: connect rural communities to each other and to public open space via purpose-built single track trails.
Today we’re diving deep into the oak and hickory lined ridges of eastern Oklahoma and central Arkansas as we catch up with Isaac Robinson to hear about his unsupported FKT on the 223 mile Ouachita Trail.
Traversing across a skyline's worth of ridges, and piling up over 30 miles of foot travel, bagging 3 of the 5 tallest peaks in Colorado in under 24 hours, the Cloud City Highline is believed to be a new high altitude link-up in the Colorado Rockies, and it ain't for the faint of heart.