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A great way to travel. Ridge running in the Black Mountains of Wales

You don’t need to be an ultra athlete or an extreme adventurer to go fastpacking. It’s a lot easier than you’d imagine. And for those who hate planning, there are many companies who will take all of that off your hands, including moving your bags and booking your accommodation, allowing you to just run with a day pack.

This book provides practical tips and advice on organising your own multi-day running trips, including: styles of fastpacking, from supported to unsupported; how to choose a route; where to stay; what to what to take; and eating on multi-day runs.

A question that often comes up when picking a route is, ‘How runnable is it?’ While a person’s ability to run up big climbs and tackle technical terrain is largely a matter of experience, this book also gives overviews and travel tales from 12 tried-and-tested fastpacking routes, including: a wild camping micro-adventure on Dartmoor; running some of the UK’s national trails; and a bothy-run in the Highlands. Overseas, there’s hut-hopping in the Alps and Dolomites, plus a stage race in Nepal on a tea-house trekking route, along with other fastpacking opportunities in the country.