Routes, sourced. Not planned for you.
Canonical hiking records with distance, SAC and YDS, water, permits, and access. A reference encyclopedia, not a turn-by-turn planner.
What this is
How a trail record is built
Figures with sources
Distance, elevation, and grade can carry a source and a last-verified date. If we do not know a number, it stays unknown.
Logistics other apps skip
Water availability, permit warnings, and whether you can reach the trailhead without a car sit on the record.
Coverage outside the usual map
The desk prioritizes Asia, the Global South, South America, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans, plus long-distance walking.
One grade, two scales
Every trail shows SAC, YDS, and a plain-language label together. We do not publish a bare “moderate”.
From the desk
Sourced records, not track dumps
Annapurna
Annapurna Base Camp Trek
Teahouse trek from the Modi Khola valley into the Annapurna Sanctuary, a glacial amphitheatre at 4,130 m.
70 km · 7d · SAC T3
Torres del Paine
Torres del Paine W Trek
Four-to-five day traverse of the Paine massif, linking the Torres viewpoint, the French Valley, and Grey Glacier.
80 km · 5d · SAC T2
Peaks of the Balkans
Peaks of the Balkans Trail
About 192 km looping through the Accursed Mountains of Albania, Kosovo, and Montenegro on old shepherd and smuggler paths.
192 km · 10d · SAC T3
Where we have records
Coverage by country and subregion
Southern Asia · Nepal
Annapurna
North-central Nepal massif. Teahouse valleys host some of the Himalaya's busiest long treks, with logistics still thinly documented in English.
11 trails
South America · Chile
Torres del Paine
Granite massif in Chilean Patagonia. Weather dominates the walking. Refugios, ferries, and permits matter as much as the line on the map.
1 trail
Southern Europe · Albania
Peaks of the Balkans
Cross-border circuit through Albania, Kosovo, and Montenegro. Mapping is thin and a permit is required to cross the borders on foot.
1 trail
Southern Europe · Slovenia
Slovenia
Hut-to-hut national long-distance walking from the northeast to the Adriatic. English logbooks and storm-damage status are thin.
1 trail
Western Asia · Jordan
Jordan
Long-distance desert and highland walking from Umm Qais to Aqaba. Water caches and section permits are the logistics story.
1 trail
Northern Europe · United Kingdom
Scottish Highlands
Long-distance walking in the western Highlands. The spine is well documented; seasonal diversions and reroutes are poorly tracked publicly.
1 trail
Southern Asia · India
Deccan Plateau (Telangana)
Granite-dome fort climbs and forest-hill day treks on the Deccan Plateau near Hyderabad — high weekend traffic, thin standardized data. Not the Western Ghats / Sahyadri.
4 trails
When a trail is verified
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