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1. Ride a mountain stage of the Tour du France Tour stages average about 100 miles. On flat roads this distance would take an avid about 5-7 hours; make it a mountain stage and it would become multi-day. This as a week-long thing, stopping in towns or camping where possible. Guided is an option as there are tons of trips on offer, but could also do DIY with some form of support. Areas to focus on: Sestriere -- A respected ski resort, Sestriere (ses-tree-air) is just across the French border in the Italian Alps. It has been used as both a mid-stage climb and as a finish point at 6,668 feet Aubisque -- The Aubisque (oh-beesk), a legendary Tour peak added in 1910. The Aubisque culminates at 5,605 feet
2. Touch the North Pole. Ski trips to the pole of varying lengths are offered from tons of companies these days. Many will fly you the entire way and let you spend the night there, but with a two-week ski trip you can essentially do the trip as if the first arctic explorer. Such a trip is seriously hardcore in terms of stamina and strength, but you don’t need a lot of experience beyond comfort in cold and on skis. It’s Everest for the Everyman.
3. DIY Safari in Botswana - AFRICA There is a 4x4 road running between the Okavango Delta and Chobe Park. The road brings you through the Moremi Game Reserve, then into the legendary Savute area (home to enormous herds of elephants, zebras, antelopes and 4,000-year-old Bushman paintings), accessible only by air or 4wd. If you have a vehicle, it can be done fairly cheaply by camping. This is territory that most people only see as they fly over en route to their $700-a-night lodge. It would be a very cool trip. Not many people (except South Africans of course) leave the riverfront stretch of Chobe, which is just a fraction of the park.
4. Raft the Greatest River in the World - PATAGONIA Halfway b/t Santiago and southern tip of South America, the Futa in Patagonia is now considered the best whitewater river for paddlers and rafters after its discovery just a few years ago. There are some worries that dams will be built and the river could be lost. Get there now! Big volume river/pristine tourquoise blue waters. Remote location. Several different sections for varying degrees of difficulty. Class III-V+ depending on flow levels. Just beginning to attract tourists and guides. DIY kayaking or rafting outfitters available. Big Bonus: It is a “classic roadside run” with easy access to all sections.
5. Motorcycle the Ho Chi Minh trail - VIETNAM This is not a new trip, but a classic that never gets old and hasn’t been covered much for some years. It can be done guided or simply fly yourself to Vietnam and pick up your own bike. Itineraries would be stop at villages between motoring segments, lots of back roads and mud paths. Not highways.
6. Explore Russia’s Yellowstone - RUSSIA Kamchatka Peninsula in Far East Russia has Geysers, bears, wolves, eagles, waterfalls, hot springs—everything Yellowstone has, plus huge volcanoes and minus the crowds. It’s also now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. South Kamchatka is where you want to go. It is true wilderness, only opened to the public in 1991. You can hike several-day and strenuous routes to Khodutka, Asacha, Opala or Ksudatch volcanoes or any of the other smaller volcanoes. Upside: this location was named by several outfitters off the record as the place they’d like to go to most that they had yet to see and that they were hearing great things about.
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7. Scuba Dive the newest National Monument (and largest marine reserve ever created) - PACIFIC OCEAN The seven-island Pacific Remote Islands monument will cover 86,607 square miles, and Rose Atoll is much smaller at 13,451 square miles. The latter includes the world's smallest coral atoll at 15 acres. This is the southernmost point of U.S. territory, part of American Samoa. Pretty simple outfitter hire to get to Rose Atoll. Diving is reported to be pristine and amazing. This area wasn’t necessarily unknown before this new designation, but it is so isolated that few tourists go there. http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090106/1amarianas06_st.art.htm |
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