David Cifaldi and his two hiking companions were attempting to summit Montana’s highest peak when their adventure took a bizarre and dangerous turn: Cifaldi slipped and impaled himself on his trekking pole as he fell. The 112cm steel-tipped pole passed through the flesh beneath his left arm, missing any vital organs, and protruded from his […] The post Hiker treks 16km to safety after impaling himself with pole appeared first on Wilderness Magazine.
After Bryn Heveldt became frustrated with bouncing between multiple browser tabs for maps and weather information when planning an outdoor mission, the freelance web developer decided to use his career to his advantage to create Mapit.nz. The map combines open-source LINZ map data with weather data from Open-Meteo to provide the foundation of the site. […] The post Tramper creates new free backcountry trip planing tool appeared first on Wilderness Magazine.
As we celebrate New Zealand’s Great Walks in this issue, it’s worth asking: what makes a tramp great? On the 10 tracks and one river that make up the Great Walks, you could say it’s the incredible landscapes traversed, though some may argue that other trails lead to places even grander, places that you can […] The post Greatness all around appeared first on Wilderness Magazine.