Travel Itineraries

Self-guided hut-to-hut plans — interactive maps, day-by-day cards, booking checklists, and packing lists.

🥾 Hiking Itineraries

Comfortable ~18 km/day pace — long lunches, summit detours, village nights.

The classic Alps circuit via the high scenic route — Col de Tricot, Fenêtre d'Arpette, Lac Blanc, and the best refuges on the loop.

Alta Via 1

Dolomites, Italy

6 days ~117 km Rifugio-to-rifugio

Lago di Braies to Belluno — WWI tunnels, a night on the Nuvolau summit, and the Civetta wall traverse.

Via Alpina — Bernese Oberland

Engelberg → Gsteig, Switzerland

10 days ~177 km One pass a day

The heart of the Swiss Route 1 — Eiger North Face, Mürren, Hohtürli, and Oeschinensee with a village hotel almost every night.

Milford Track

Fiordland, New Zealand

4 days (fixed) ~53.5 km "Finest walk in the world"

Boat in, boat out — Clinton valley, Mackinnon Pass, and Sutherland Falls on DOC's famously fixed 4-day itinerary.

🏃 Running Itineraries

Fastpacking pace ~30 km/day — running vest, guesthouse nights, big pass days.

Peaks of the Balkans

Albania · Kosovo · Montenegro

6 days ~179 km 3-country loop

The Accursed Mountains loop from Theth — Valbona Pass, the Trekufiri triple border, Hridsko Lake, and the Blue Eye finish.

Juliana Trail

Julian Alps, Slovenia

8 days ~280 km Triglav NP loop

Around Triglav, not over it — Lake Bled, the emerald Soča, Kobarid, and Vršič Pass on the most runnable long trail in the Alps.

GR10 Haute Pyrénées

Cauterets → Luchon, France

5 days ~130 km Gîte-to-gîte

The showpiece of the 900 km GR10 — Vignemale, the Cirque de Gavarnie, Lac d'Oô, and a gîte dinner every night.

GR11 Ordesa → Benasque

Spanish Pyrenees

4 days ~101 km Wildest

Ordesa canyon, the Collado de Añisclo crux, and the Posets massif — the wildest refugio-to-refugio running in the Pyrenees.

Kumano Kodo Nakahechi

Kii Peninsula, Japan

2 days ~70 km UNESCO pilgrimage

Takijiri to Nachi Falls — mossy cedar forest, oji shrines, and a night in a 1,800-year-old onsen village.

Nakasendo Kiso Valley

Gifu / Nagano, Japan

2 days ~75 km Edo post road

Magome to Narai on the samurai highway — preserved post towns, Torii-tōge, and ryokan nights on the old street.

Kita Alps Traverse

Northern Japan Alps

3 days ~65 km Yarigatake 3,180 m

Tateyama to Kamikochi across the roof of Japan — hut nights at 2,700 m and the chained summit of the "spear."

Kepler Track

Fiordland, New Zealand

2 days ~60 km Great Walk loop

The runner's Great Walk — Luxmore caves, exposed ridgeline above Lake Te Anau, and the Kepler Challenge race heritage.

Routeburn Track

Fiordland / Mt Aspiring, NZ

1 day ~33 km No hut booking!

The alpine day run — Harris Saddle, Conical Hill, and the Hollyford Face without fighting for a hut bed.

Heaphy Track

Kahurangi NP, New Zealand

2 days ~78.5 km Longest Great Walk

Gouland Downs tussock, takahē and giant snails, then the nikau palm coast — remote end to end.

Paparoa Track

West Coast, New Zealand

2 days ~55 km Smoothest trail

TranzAlpine in, Pancake Rocks out — limestone escarpment sunsets and the flowiest purpose-built trail in NZ.

Tongariro Northern Circuit

Tongariro NP, New Zealand

2 days ~45 km Volcanic loop

Red Crater, Emerald Lakes, and the Oturere moonscape under "Mt Doom" — dawn start beats the Crossing crowds.

Trip reports from the runs: TMB · Alta Via 2 & 1 · Via Alpina