Hiking, Climbing and Mountaineering Summer & Winter

Boundless Journeys offers small groups of active travelers a choice of cultural, active and experiential vacations. Here's why it's an award-winning adventure travel company.

Mountain hiking tips for day hikers who enjoy backcountry trails and trails at resorts in the Rocky Mountains.

Where is the largest number of dinosaur tracks on the continent? You can hike to see them in Colorado.

Top beach vacation destinations for adventurous travelers stretch around the world. I culled this list from suggestions offered by beach lovers who travel, adventure travel companies and beach destinations around the globe.

This unique Web site unites passionate mountain climbers who want to also support change. The members work with and support charities that offer programs to help children and youth connect with nature, and learn and grow in nature.

There are Web sites with excellent trail descriptions around the country, but they cost. Why pay. Many resort towns and even cities with extensive public park systems offer free detailed descriptions of hiking and biking trails on their Web sites, or they include links to sites that tell you where to park, length of trails and often rate a trail's steepness and difficulty level.

Parkour - the art of moving effectively through the environment using only the human body to overcome obstacles - is a growing activity in urban centers. All you need are the streets, fences, walls and other obstacles one finds in an urban center.

If you’re looking for hiking tips on where to go, TrailLink has detailed information on more than 30,000 miles of bike trails, walking trails, equestrian trails, and hiking and running trails. On the site, you can customize directions to points along a trail, and share photos, reviews and GPS data.

Guest author and hiking guide Greg Witt believe the Jungfrau region is one of the most beautiful places on earth. It's a glistening mountain landscape and home to the Alps’ highest concentration of glaciers, where you’ll find exquisite hiking trails, dazzling waterfalls, and legendary peaks like the Eiger with its fearsome North Face.

This country has the longest coastal walking path in the world. And, if you've walked all 870 miles, stopping to surf, go coasteering, biking and beaching, there's a link to yet another long trail.

Coasteering is an adventurous sport that involves climbing up rocky cliffsides then leaping into the ocean. Watch this video.

As a popular explorer, mountaineer, adventure guide, author, and speaker, guest author Greg Witt is uniquely qualified in the area of Adventure Travel because Greg lives the adventures he writes about.

Mountaineering encompasses the sports of rock climbing, ice climbing, trekking and scaling the world’s tallest mountains. Here you’ll find links to different types of, and sources for mountaineering, rock climbing and ice climbing.

Hiking, walking and trekking vacations are a lot of fun. Here are suggestions for choosing and getting ready for your trip.

As the cool sandstone walls got closer and closer, until I was forced to remove my backpack and turn sideways to wiggle through, I understood why it was called a slot canyon. I was hiking in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California's largest state park

Greg Witt, author of "60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Salt Lake City", has hiked well over a thousand miles of Utah trails. Here are his choices for five of the best day hikes close to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Step by step is one approach to slowly savoring the views. Here's a selection of walking trips around the globe.

Red Rock Canyon is a mere 30 minutes from the frenetic activity on the Las Vegas Strip, but walking among these rocks and in the canyons you'd think you were 100 miles away.

Hiking along ancient Inca trails to Machu Picchu, on narrow ledges weaving up and down 13,000-foot-high mountains, is the most well-known Peru excursion to many Americans. But, you can hike in a canyon twice the depth of the Grand Canyon, too.

Looking for details on taking great day hike in the Swiss Alps? Greg Witt, author of "Utimate Adventures: A Rough Guide to Adventure Travel," owns a an adventure travel company that specializes in hiking, trekking, and photographic adventures in the Alps. Here are his suggestions.

If heli-skiing or heli-hiking are on your adventure-travel radar, check out the variety of trips offered by Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH). In the winter this company offers heli-ski for advanced intermediates to expert skiers and snowboarders. In the summer, the heli-hiking trips for novices to experienced hikers and for families. CMH also has mountaineering trips.

During the annual National Public Lands Day thousands of volunteers help clean-up and fix-up America's trails and national forests that have been worn down by hikers, mountain bikers and ATVs.

If you're looking for a one-stop source of information about hiking trails in the Northeast, places to stay while on the trail, and group hiking trips, you'll want to check out the Appalachian Mountain Club.

Park Hyatt Beaver Creek in Colorado offers the luxe route to climbing one of Colorado's "fourteeners" -- mountains that peak out higher than 14,000 feet above sea level.

Floridian Tony Conboy III relates his experiences heli-hiking family style in the Purcell Mountains in Canada's British Columbian during a trip with Canadian Mountain Holidays.

Profiles of excellent tour operators who offer hiking, walking and trekking vacations and trips.

During the annual National Trails Day, every June, hundreds of events take place around the country including hiking, biking, trail maintenance, horseback riding and paddling down streams. Here's where to find an event or activity near you.

Walking, hiking and trekking trails crisscross Tasmania, Australia's island state.

The Vermont Fine Furniture & Woodworking Festival showcases the artistry and skills required to craft furniture by schooled hands and eyes, instead of machines. The festival is Sept. 29-30, 2007, prime leaf-peeping season in Woodstock, VT.

Define deepelling. Deepelling is a controlled descent working your way down a steep cliff in a face-forward position. In South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and some other countries it is called abseiling. Have you even see a picture of World War II soldiers working their way down a cliff? Many went face-forward, so they could use weapons if...

Cappadocia, Turkey's landscape is like nowhere else on earth. Volcanoes erupted more than three million years ago and as the ash settled it formed a layer of tufa, in places covered with basalt lava. Wind and weather eroded the tufa created the fantastical shapes today called "fairy chimneys."

Pictures, Images and Photos of Adventure Travel Destinations. Adventure travelers love these locales. Can you picture yourself in these settings?

The world's to ice climbers dangle from lines on the ice-sheathed Uncompahgre Canyon in Ouray, Colorado, during the Ouray Ice Festival. Ice climbing is one of the most popular sports in this remote town located in southwestern Colorado's San Juan Mountains, nicknamed Little Switzerland because the steep mountains resemble parts of the Alps.

Exploring any of these types of adventure travel will enrich your life, and the pictures from your trip will fill a scrapbook with lasting images. From scuba diving to mushing huskies, these examples of unforgettable adventure travel will open new worlds to you.

Active adventure travelers will enjoy these trips, which combines adventure travel and the types of exploration for which National Geographic is famous. The company has united with Mountain Travel Sobek to create these new adventure trips. Here's where to find a list of these amazing adventures.

Adventure sports listings and adventure travel directories for active travelers seeking where to go for extreme sports and adventurous trips.

Tips to increase your safety and enjoyment when exploring the wilderness and during outdoor excursions.

Best hiking and mountain biking trail sources for Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona

These images show what awaits adventure travelers on Molokai, Hawaii, where there's lots of terrain for hiking, biking, and swimming in waterfall-fed pools. Take a mule ride or hike down the steep almost 1,800-foot high cliffside to Kalaupapa National Historic Park and tour of the former leper colony.