On this magnificent cultural hiking adventure on the largest island in the Mediterranean we’ll start with a visit to Segesta Archaeological Park en route to the enchanting, mountaintop medieval city of Erice, our first base. From Erice we’ll set out by van to hike in a lovely coastal nature preserve. We’ll then transfer to the quaint Madonie Mountains, where our base will be a luxury hotel in a former abbey surrounded by olive groves and a vineyard. Here we’ll hike among giant holly trees up to dramatic vistas, and will also visit the port city of Cefalù with its ancient alleyways and dramatic Rocca towering over the town, which we’ll ascend. We’ll wind up this amazing adventure with a stay in Taormina, the cliff top mediaeval city with views of Mount Etna, the highest volcano in Europe. We’ll visit the Greek theater and Taormina’s many piazzas and palazzos, and hike to the hilltop village of Castemola. On the last day we’ll hike on Mount Etna, Sicily’s greatest natural attraction. We hope you will join us on this travel event in Sicily, a world apart! We are offering this guided tour April 22 - 28, 2013 or by special arrangement for your gorup. Please visit http://www.bredeson.com/sicily for further details.
On this magnificent cultural hiking adventure on the largest island in the Mediterranean we’ll start with a visit to Segesta Archaeological Park en route to the enchanting, mountaintop medieval city of Erice, our first base. From Erice we’ll set out by van to hike in a lovely coastal nature preserve. We’ll then transfer to the quaint Madonie Mountains, where our base will be a luxury hotel in a former abbey surrounded by olive groves and a vineyard. Here we’ll hike among giant holly trees up to dramatic vistas, and will also visit the port city of Cefalù with its ancient alleyways and dramatic Rocca towering over the town, which we’ll ascend. We’ll wind up this amazing adventure with a stay in Taormina, the cliff top mediaeval city with views of Mount Etna, the highest volcano in Europe. We’ll visit the Greek theater and Taormina’s many piazzas and palazzos, and hike to the hilltop village of Castemola. On the last day we’ll hike on Mount Etna, Sicily’s greatest natural attraction. We hope you will join us on this travel event in Sicily, a world apart! We are offering this guided tour April 22 - 28, 2013 or by special arrangement for your gorup. Please visit http://www.bredeson.com/sicily for further details.
Join Bredeson Outdoor Adventures (www.bredeson.com) for a four day, three night guided hut to hut snowshoeing tour in the wilderness region of Western Maine. By day we’ll snowshoe from one hut to the next through a lovely and varied countryside. Our adventure takes place in a region where a system of people-powered trails connects backcountry eco-lodges. When the network is complete, it will stretch nearly 200 miles from near the New Hampshire border to the Moosehead Lake region. At night we’ll stay in three different cozy and beautiful huts, enjoying delicious home-cooked meals prepared with local organic ingredients, warm comfortable beds and showers. Our bags will be shuttled and will be waiting for us when we arrive at the next night’s hut. Full details are posted at http://www.bredeson.com/maine-snowshoeing.
This guided September 15 - 22, 2013 hiking trip crosses three linguistic and cultural borders and allows you to explore two of the most beautiful areas of Switzerland: Wengen in the Bernese Oberland, and Pontresina in Grissons. (This tour is also offered at other times by special arrangement for your group.) Those who have vacationed in the Wengen area describe the addictive quality of hikes based in and near this car-free village high on a hillside beneath the imposing trio of the Jungfrau, Eiger and Monch mountains. In recognition of this incredible beauty, the area, including Switzerland’s Aletsch Glacier, has been designated a World Heritage Site. Midway through the trip you’ll ride the justly famous Glacier Express across the Swiss Alps to Pontresina and the Engadine Valley in the canton of Grissons near the Lake District of Italy to the south, and Tirol in Austria. Four major passes lead up to this high alpine valley, which runs for 60 miles along a southern terrace of the Alps and has blue skies for over 300 days a year. The Engadine combines crisp, dry air, forests, lakes and glaciated peaks. This high-alpine area is famous for its flora and fauna, and superb views. This adventure is a big hit with all ages, including kids and adults. While the September 15 - 22, 2013 departure posted here is adults only, custom family tours can be scheduled throughout the summer. It is also available on a self-guided or private guided basis. Full details are posted at http://www.bredeson.com/switzerland.
The Hiker’s Haute Route is one of the world’s classic, and challenging, treks. The Route was established almost a hundred years ago, first as a ski route. It was later developed into a high-level hike. This July 16 - 26, 2013 hike links the two famous birth places of mountaineering in the Alps, Chamonix and Zermatt, each with its own fascinating history. (This guided tour is also offered at other times by special arrangement for your group.) The Route connecting these busy Alpine centers of activity contains numerous quaint and quiet villages, which you’ll pass through. You’ll have glimpses into two countries (France and Switzerland), as well as into two linguistic areas (French and German) of the Swiss canton of Valais. You’ll get to see an amazing array of over four thousand meter peaks on this trek, starting with Mont Blanc in the Chamonix Valley and culminating with the Matterhorn in Zermatt, that most hypnotic of mountains. For complete details visit http://www.bredeson.com/haute-route.
Please join Bredeson Outdoor Adventures (www.bredeson.com) for this amazing guided hiking adventure from July 15 - 22, 2013 in Glacier National Park, the undisputed “Crown of the Continent” and one of the world’s most awesome wilderness parks. (This guided tour is also offered at other times by special arrangement for your group.) Its glaciers accent steep cliff edges, where mountain goats prance as the Walendas of the animal kingdom. Glacier is full of dramatic mountain ranges, alpine meadows replete with wildflowers and sculpted glacial valleys reflected in lakes. Acres of lush green parklands plunge down jagged red pinnacles, exposing some of the world’s oldest stones. Waterfalls roar, ice cracks, and rock fall echoes in scenery being changed and formed before our eyes. In this rugged one million acres, you’ll catch sight of bighorn sheep grazing in alpine meadows while pikas shriek close by. A total of 62 species of mammal live here, ranging from the tiny pygmy shrews to the grand mountain goats, grizzly bears and elk. Welcome to rugged and remote Glacier National Park! Additional details are posted at http://www.bredeson.com/glacier.
Join Bredeson Outdoor Adventures for a magnificent guided hiking vacation in the European Alps. Two of its most spectacular and beautiful areas are combined on this trip, from the high mountain peaks and traditional huts of the Austrian Tyrol to the fairy tale castles and forested mountains of southwestern Germany’s Bavaria. In addition to our guided June 29 - July 6, 2013 departure, we offer also offer this tour on a private guided or a self-guided basis. Additional details are posted at http://www.bredeson.com/austria.
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3 to 7 Nights Lodging/Breakfast and bag trail lunch
Spend a few days hiking the Superior North Shore through lush forests, past scenic waterfalls, over scenic ridges and along river gorges. After your day's hike, enjoy dinner and then sleep in comfort at a different lodge each night.
Featured in "1,000 Places to See in U.S. and Canada Before You Die." The rugged natural beauty of Lake Superior and the civilized touches of the Lodges, Inns and Bed and Breakfasts of Minnesota's North Shore bring you one of North America's finest hiking experiences, Lodge to Lodge Hiking along one of the continent's finest trails, the Superior Hiking Trail.
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It's amazing. An adobe wall changes colors constantly…amber at dawn, fiery at sunset, powder gray in moonlight. That trick of light and nature drew Georgia O’Keeffe, Ansel Adams and generations of other artists to New Mexico. But it’s just one of the reasons we love it here. Every view seems to have a backdrop of mountains.
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The wildly popular book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has inspired any number of pilgrimages to the coastal South. But our journey digs deeper than the guidebook landmarks. Of course, we walk our fair share of moss-draped lanes—but instead of admiring fine restorations of prosperous homes from the outside, we go in for private tours and even dinner under the chandelier. We meet up with the Gullah culture, too, with its strong West African traditions and visit the country's most unique living history museums. On the sea islands and in the tidal estuaries, nature has always nibbled at the edge of civilization down here. And you'll see just how close it is on our forays onto barrier islands and lazy floats on streams populated by dolphins and woodstorks. To our mind, there's just no other region in America with such a distinctive meld of history, climate and way of life, and we'll share it all with you in gracious style on our walking tour of Charleston & Savannah.
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Location: Washington State
Duration: 7 Days / 6 Nights
Price (per person) $3,598
Outfitter: Country Walkers
Enter a world visitors say is among the most magical they’ve ever experienced. Stretching from snowy peaks to a wild Pacific shore, this is the heart of North America’s ancient rainforest—a vast walker’s paradise where thousand-year-old, moss-draped trees rise hundreds of feet into the sky and magnificent waterfalls tumble to fields of brilliant wildflowers and deep-blue lakes.
Reposted from the Country Walkers Catalog:
Trip Length
6 Days / 5 Nights
Price (per person)
$2,698
There’s just nothing like autumn in Vermont. Every year, this rural landscape of working farms, rolling hills, forests, and picture-perfect villages is ablaze with color—brilliant reds, glowing oranges, and vibrant yellows paint the landscape. You’ll follow the Robert Frost Trail, a forest footpath named for the famed poet who spent much of his life here. Then discover Silver Lake, the Falls of Lana, and view three states (and Canada) under a quilt of color as you walk the ridgeline of Mount Mansfield, Vermont’s highest peak.
Reposted from the Country Walkers Catalog:
Trip Length
6 Days / 5 Nights
Price (per person)
$3,098
Single + what's this?
$575
It is hard to believe that Glacier is one of America’s least visited national parks. Straddling the Continental Divide and endowed with what many believe is the most glorious alpine scenery in North America, this world of mighty glaciers, mountain lakes, massive summits, and graceful waterfalls surging from high cliffs is among the country’s greatest treasures. From your first steps into ancient forest and the smooth stone chutes of Avalanche Gorge to the wind-twisted trees of the Garden Wall and dazzling Grinnell Glacier, the regal scenery unfolds.
RePosted from The Country Walkers Catalog
Trip Length
6 Days / 5 Nights
Price (per person)
$2,848
This special adventure on the rugged Maine coast will carry you deep into a one-of-a-kind landscape carved by the ages from stone and salt water. Here, dense balsam forests spill onto a magnificent rocky coast teeming with natural wonders, and sweeping views of timeless ocean and unbounded sky wait on the many trails that lace the shore. Travel from the charming town of Bar Harbor to mountain-summit panoramas that reach their apex atop Cadillac Mountain, the Eastern Seaboard’s highest point.
Reposted from the Country Walkers Catalog:
Trip Length
4 Days / 3 Nights
Price (per person) $2,248
NEW Though its name is as fearsome as its reputation, Death Valley is a wonderful surprise. Here, America’s most surreal landscape earns some remarkable superlatives: the largest national park outside Alaska, the lowest spot in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the driest environments on Earth. From the historic Inn at Furnace Creek, a plush garden oasis with a spring-fed pool, you’ll travel into a thrillingly alien world of color-drenched sunsets, remote canyons, undulating dunes, and ethereal rock formations.
Reposted from the Great Freedom Adventures Catalog:
The Best Bike Tour, Attractions and Activities on Block Island, RI
One of the “Last Great Places”
Vacation with us on Rhode Island’s Block Island and you will be completely enthralled with this island. Block Island may be America’s best kept secret and in fact, we should probably include a disclaimer: though you may leave after four days, your heart is almost certain to remain. The Nature Conservancy has named Block Island one of the original “Last Great Places” in the Western Hemisphere and you will soon see why. Over 43% of this pristine natural environment is protected; there are over 30 miles of gorgeous trails, 17 miles of beaches, and myriad wildlife on this Atlantic Flyway stopover.
Reposted from the Great Freedom Adventures Catalog:
New York
A New York Bike Tour with So Much More - Explore the Magnificent Hudson Valley National Heritage Area
Fabulous Bicycling
We’ll let you in on a secret. The bicycling in New York’s mid and upper Hudson Valley is some of the best in the country. Recreational and serious cyclists alike treasure this network of quiet beauty. On our NY bike tour we spin along picturesque country roads, including long, flat stretches where you can really open it up. We’ve found the loveliest routes among the many beautiful options. Join us as we take it all in.
Re-Posted From the Great Freedom Adventures Catalog:
Extraordinary North Shore of Boston Bike Tour
Lighthouses, White-Sand Beaches and Historic Towns
On our New England bike tour on Boston’s North Shore you will be immersed in a landscape of spectacular white-sand beaches, salt marshes teeming with wildlife, lighthouses perched on rocky headlands, and classic New England towns that are among the oldest and most historically significant in the country. This remarkable region has a tremendous combination of cultural and natural diversity in a relatively small area that would be hard to match anywhere else.
Reposted From the Great Freedom Adventures Catalog:
Best of Vermont Bike Tour
Quintessential New England Bike Trip Highlights:
- Stay in the area’s loveliest inns
- Dine on meals prepared by some of the region’s best chefs
- Bicycle the most beautiful roads in central Vermont
- View dramatic Quechee Gorge
- Visit a working 1,000 acre farm and dine at the stunning new post and beam restaurant on expertly prepared food fresh from the farm
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Bike Inn-to-Inn with Butterfield and Robinson, islands of British Columbia
Location: British Columbia Islands
Type: "Bespoke" Biking trip- you design your own Spa to Inn to Lodge biking, stopping at wineries, going by boat from island to island.
Duration: variable/customizable
Endurance: moderate
Luxe Level: way up there.
Price: Very expensive to even more expensive, depending on length and stops.
Highlights: Wine, spas, swimming holes, forest canopies, islands.
Outfitter: Butterfield & Robinson
Location: Colorado and Utah
Duration: 6 days
Endurance: Moderate
Price: $2,598 per person
Outfitter: Country Walkers
Location: Yosemite
Duration: 6 days
Endurance: Moderate
Price: $3,698 per person
Outfitter: Country Walkers
Location: Yellowstone Park
Duration: 6 days
Endurance: Moderate
Price: $2,898 per person
Outfitter: Country Walkers
Location: Bryce and Zion Canyons, Utah
Duration: 6 days
Endurance: Moderate
Price: $2,698 per person
Outfitter: Country Walkers
Location: Grand Canyon
Duration: 6 days
Endurance: Moderate
Price: $2,998 per person
Outfitter: Country Walkers
Location: Alaska: Kenai Peninsula Duration: 6 days Endurance: Moderate Outfitter: Country Walkers Price: $2500+
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