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    MAKE YOUR OWN PATH

    Jun 10, 2022 6 minutes

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    I DAYDREAM about exploring all the time. I look at maps and I read about cultures far away from my own. This is how many of my adventures begin – by daydreaming and pulling at the threads of curiosity.

    Long-distance, unsupported, multi day (or, more accurately, multi-week) fastpacking – the combination of trail running and ultralight backpacking – was not a qualified ‘thing’ when I started this project. It wasn’t something that I could buy a guidebook for, or learn from anyone else. It was a daydream I had, a curiosity about what was possible for me, and a desire to explore by my favourite means of movement.

    Crossing the length of a mountain range at speed seemed like the ultimate challenge to me. Doing it would mean getting to know an entire geographical feature, from start to end, and meeting the people who lived there. Doing it solo and unsupported would force me to rely on those people and interact with them as much

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