Libya
ExtremePiste de l’Erg Murzuq — Sebha to Ubari via the Fezzan Oasis Lakes and Sand Sea Gateway
Turquoise crater lakes buried in the Sahara.
Trail Type: Overland Route
USA
ModerateTrans-America Trail — Rawlins to Dubois via the Wyoming Basin and Wind River Range
200 miles of Wyoming with nobody watching.
USA
ModerateTrans-America Trail — Parsons to Addison via the Monongahela National Forest and Greenbrier Valley
TAT through WV's forgotten forest interior.
Italy
ModeratePasso dello Spluga South — Madesimo to Chiavenna via the Italian Alpine Wall Descent
Roman road. Cliff edge. No margin for error.
Texas
ModerateTrans-America Trail — Hico to Ranger via the Texas Hill Country Limestone Plateau
Flat, hot, thorny, and honest Texas two-track.
Austria
ModeratePasso del Rombo — Ötztal to Passo del Rombo via the Austrian-Italian Alpine Divide
29 switchbacks, two countries, one killer view.
Romania
ModerateTransfagarasan Highway — Curtea de Arges to Sibiu via the Southern Carpathian High Crossing (Full Traverse)
The road Ceaușescu built. The Carpathians own it.
USA
ModerateTrans-America Trail — Tonapah to Ely via the Nevada Basin and Range High Desert
Sierra Madre hidden above the Divide Basin.
Arizona
DifficultTrans-America Trail — Clifton to Quemado via the Mogollon Rim and Apache Creek Divide
Mogollon Rim backcountry at its most honest.
Algeria
ExpertPiste de l’Erg Chech Est — Reggane to Bordj Badji Mokhtar via the Eastern Erg Chech Corridor
Seven hundred kilometres of Saharan silence.