HHiking Read More 16 minute read How the Drakensberg and the Drakensberg Grand Traverse made me tap out.byPolleOctober 26, 2025No comments I just couldn’t breathe. Four steps, five steps, time to breathe. Four steps. Breathe. An urge to lie… Read More
NNew Zealand Read More 6 minute read Routeburn Track in one day (totally doable).byPolleMarch 14, 2025No comments The Routeburn Track is one of New Zealand’s so-called Great Walks, those iconic, magical, and famously beautiful hikes… Read More
PPlanning & Preparation Read More 8 minute read Planning and preparing for the Drakensberg Grand TraversebyPolleAugust 11, 2024No comments How do you plan and prepare for “one of the most difficult hikes in the world”, the Drakensberg… Read More
OOmakase Read More 4 minute read Faroe Islands, the land of maybe.byPolleJuly 28, 2023No comments “The land of maybe”, he chuckled. That is apparently what the English called it during the second World… Read More
PPlanning & Preparation Read More 6 minute read Planning and preparing for the Peaks of the BalkansbyPolleJuly 28, 20232 comments Omakase is the art of letting go, of having an open mind. And planning and preparation seems to be… Read More
PPacking list Read More 4 minute read Packing list for solo hiking Peaks of the BalkansbyPolleJuly 20, 2023No comments I started digiting my packing list in Notion during COVID times in 2020. I use the powerful connected… Read More
MMontenegro Read More 21 minute read Solo hiking Peaks of the Balkans through Albania, Kosovo, and MontenegrobyPolleJuly 16, 2023One comment “Europe’s last true wilderness”, as BBC called it in an article. The Peaks of the Balkans trail in… Read More
DDenmark Read More 4 minute read That time I got stuck in a hail storm on The Faroe Islands.byPolleMarch 18, 2022No comments It had been an amazing day on the Faroe Islands. A full day of perfect blue skies As… Read More