Distance isn’t the goal here — understanding is.
Long-distance routes serve as a geographic lens: lines drawn across real relief, anchoring every step in landforms, climates, waters, and human history.
This section collects these expeditions and route projects, from mountain chains to continental crossings — designed to help you read geography first, then travel through it.
These routes are slow, land-aware, and built for people who want to understand continents — not just check destinations.
Why long-distance?
• To see climate and terrain shift gradually, not in jumps.
• To understand cultures through continuity, not highlights.
• To connect micro-trails into continental logic.
What you’ll find here
• Route concepts and stage maps
• Transport, seasons, access notes
• GPX files and step-by-step field routes
• Expedition-style planning detail
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Table of Contents
Active projects
Crossing Eurasia
This is a long-term, geography-first transect across the Eurasian landmass, following natural corridors, watersheds and cultural regions rather than speed or straight-line efficiency.
The route begins at Cabo da Roca (Portugal), crosses the Iberian Peninsula toward the European interior, and continues in annual stages eastward — adapting to climate windows, terrain and field logistics.
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Start here: Crossing Eurasia overview
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Latest stage: Iberian Peninsula — Cabo da Roca to Madrid
Future stages include:
- The Pyrenees-Alps corridor
- Balkan Peninsula (from Slovenia to Istanbul)
- Anatolia
- Persia
- The Greater Ranges (Hindukush, Pamir, Tianshan, Karakoram, Himalaya, Tibet, Kunlun, Hengduan Mountains)
- Industan
- Eastern China
- Indochina
- Indonesia
- Mongolia
- Sakha (Yakutia)
- Chukotka
More future projects
Crossing Africa- in three versions:
- Western Africa- along the Atlantic coast.
- The middle of Africa- straight through the middle.
- Eastern Africa- along the coast of the Indian Ocean.
Crossing the Americas
This can be done in two versions:
- Along the Pacific: following the mountain spine of the Americas, from Alaska to Tiera del Fuego.
- Along the Atlantic Ocean: from Greenland, following the eastern coast of the Americas, through the Caribbean islands.
Crossing the Pacific
This is an extention of one of the Crossing Eurasia versions. It proceeds from Indonesia and goes further through Melanesia and Polynesia. Endpoint- Rapa Nui (Easter) Island.
Featured route guides
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Crossing Eurasia — Route Overview
A long-term, stage-based transect across the Eurasian landmass; built around watersheds, divides, and natural corridors.
Sierra de Gredos: Laguna Grande hike — stage context (Iberian)
The classic Plataforma → Los Barrerones → Laguna Grande route with geography-first notes, transport, seasons, and refugios.
Iberian Peninsula overview
How the Iberian stage is structured: timing windows, terrain logic, and linking day-routes into a coherent line.
Cabo da Roca- the beginning
How the Iberian stage is structured: timing windows, terrain logic, and linking day-routes into a coherent line.
Mérida Roman ruins — core day loop (Iberian)
A compact loop through Augusta Emerita’s Roman core; where it fits in the west-to-east line and how to stage it.
Garganta de los Infiernos – Los Pilones hike (Iberian)
A geography-first guide through the Jerte Valley and the “Hell’s Throat” gorge — Los Pilones pools, trails, refuges, and stage links toward Sierra de Gredos.
How these guides work
These route guides start with the land, not the itinerary. Each journey is built from the physical structure of the region — watersheds, divides, plateaus, valleys, and passes — and only then translated into a practical line on the map. You’ll first see how the terrain works and why a route makes sense before diving into stage planning, transport notes, season windows, and on-ground safety. The goal is simple: understand the geography first, then move through it with clarity, efficiency, and respect for the environment.
Maps & GPX
At this stage, the focus is on understanding the terrain first. As the Crossing Eurasia project develops, selected stages will include downloadable GPX files and annotated maps designed around watershed lines, elevation structure, and practical access points — not just “pretty trails.” When maps go live, this section will link to them.
This section hosts sample map files used across long-distance and exploratory routes.
Files are geography-first — focused on landform logic, ridges, passes, and watershed transitions.
Available GPX files
• Sierra de Gredos — side spur to Laguna Grande & Almanzor northern approach (field-logged)
Sierra de Gredos.gpx
(more coming as routes publish)
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Recent updates
- Updated Oct 2025
Sierra de Gredos: Laguna Grande — geography-first guide
Plataforma → Los Barrerones → Laguna Grande, seasons, safety, refugios.
Updated Oct 2025
Mérida – full guide
Theater, amphitheatre, circus & bridge; and more. - Updated Oct 2025
Évora – full guide
Old town, and around it. Includes Evoramonte.
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