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A safe hike is a great hike. From late snow to guardian dogs, here’s what to know before heading into the mountains this season.
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Ticks exist on hiking trails. Panic is optional. Learn how to avoid ticks while hiking, protect yourself, and keep your outdoor adventures itch-free.
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These top 10 multi-day treks deliver pure magic. Here are our picks for the best hikes in Europe – from wild Atlantic coastlines to dramatic Alpine peaks.
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The best stretches for hikers to prevent injuries, reduce soreness, and keep your legs fresh on multi-day treks. Here's what to do before and after every hike.
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How to train for a hike the right way. Practical workouts, strength exercises, and week-by-week plans so you enjoy your hiking holiday — not just survive it.
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Midges ruining your hike? Learn when they swarm, where they hide, and how to outsmart them — so you can enjoy Europe's best trails bite-free.
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Stay safe while facing extreme weather on your hike. Here's how to handle fog, rain, and lightning, and make smart decisions when mountain weather turns on you.
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How to take breathtaking hiking photos with your phone — simple tips to capture light, perspective, movement, and landscapes that tell your story.
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Every country marks its hiking trails differently. Learn to read paint blazes, cairns, scallop shells, and some of the quirkiest markers on earth.
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Wondering about the best time to hike the Alps? An honest month-by-month breakdown of huts, snow, crowds and weather to help you pick your dates.
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The GR20 refuses the valleys, which is why it is the hardest of the French GRs. Fifteen stages, mandatory refuge booking and no wild camping.
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Hiking in Corsica explained: the GR20 and the gentler coast-to-coast routes, refuges, when to go, gear and how to reach each trailhead.
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Which Alpine country to choose, the best long-distance routes, hut versus hotel, how the difficulty grades work, and the months that actually deliver.
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Hiking near Innsbruck, the Capital of the Alps, means the Adlerweg and Stubai High Trail start an hour from the platform. Pick the right one!
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Salzkammergut hiking explained: the best lakeside and ridge trails, how hard they are, when to go, and how to reach Austria's lake district.
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Mala Fatra hiking explained: the week-long ridge traverse, the two summit huts, the seasonal trail closures and what the walking really asks of you.
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Hiking in Slovakia beyond the High Tatras: four ranges, the trail closure that runs to mid-June, chargeable mountain rescue, and bears.
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A guide to Jasper hiking: the Skyline Trail, Whistlers Summit, Sulphur Skyline and Maligne, when to go, wildlife, and what to pack.
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Squeezed between France and Spain, Andorra packs 65 peaks over 2,000 metres into an area smaller than most national parks. This guide covers the multi-day treks worth doing; nights in staffed mountain refuges, and terrain a single day trip could never show you.
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Everything you need to know before hiking Bulgaria — the two ranges worth your week, when to go, how difficult most hikers find it and more.
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Six trails, two mountain ranges, and a 555-km cross-island path; this is our complete guide to walking Cyprus year-round without the summer heat.
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Everything you need to know before trekking in Croatia — the Velebit and Biokovo ranges, national parks, Istria's vineyard trails, and island walking
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The Carpathians shape Romania's hiking country with wild ranges, glacial lakes, medieval Saxon villages, and 1,400 km of trails that pass them.
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This mountain range rewards those who dare hike it with turquoise springs, traditional villages and renowned hospitality.
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Hiking in Japan means a hut network to rival the Alps, a pilgrimage trail with its own passport, and post towns that voted never to modernise.
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Limestone blades with a drop on both sides and a chapel inside a Neanderthal cave. This is the Alpstein High Trail, and how to walk it.
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A full walking guide to Portugal's Atlantic mountain island — the signature routes, the SIMplifica trail reservation system, and when to walk it.
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Hiking in Sweden really splits in two. An Arctic north with a ten-week window and huts you help run, and a soft south you can walk in April, hotel each night.
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Emperors walked a month to reach the Kumano Kodo. Which of the six routes is worth your week, the real stage distances, and what to book before you fly.
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A hiker's guide to the Pirin Mountains: 118 glacial lakes, marble peaks over 2,900 m, Koncheto's knife ridge and the huts that make it all possible.
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Golden dunes, Canary pine, laurel cloud forest at 1,890 m and a fishing-village finish, all walkable in January. Here's how to plan the GR131 on Gran Canaria.
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Wild Dinaric peaks, remote highland villages, and one of Europe's last primeval forests, all at Balkan prices. Here's how to plan a hiking trip to Bosnia.
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The Ötztal Trek explained: 400 km and 22 stages of high-alpine Tyrol, the black-graded terrain, the huts, when to go and how to reach the trailhead.
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Corfu's 220-km waymarked long-distance trail runs from Cape Asprokavos to Cape Agia Ekaterini — here's the route, season, difficulty and how to walk it.
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Portugal has coast, mountain, wine and island hiking packed into one small country. Here's how to pick the part that fits your season, pace, and appetite.
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Three national parks, the world's first country-length coast path, and a renamed summit, now called Yr Wyddfa. Here's how to plan walking in Wales.
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Learn about the five regions worth walking, when each is in season, and the July mistake that catches out first-timers.
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Plan a week of hiking from the charming Kranjska Gora: from the trails worth walking to the fitness required.
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Which coastal trails, volcanic peaks, and quiet national parks are worth your week — and which ones ask more from you than the postcards let on.
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Greece offers two hiking countries in one: mainland mountain peaks and gorges and islands whose coastal paths are best walked in shoulder months.
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Wild peaks, remote villages, and uncrowded trails, still affordable and incredibly welcoming. Here’s what else to expect on the trails in Albania.
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What to know about hiking in Montenegro: the peaks worth walking, when to go, and what other guides forget to mention before you fly.
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