Walking Guides and Trips
Trips
Greenbelt - Off-Road near Downtown LA
Northeast Los Angeles, California, United States
Walking | 13.9 miles
Walking | 13.9 miles
Fourteen miles, public stairways, trails, three mountaintops...and a lot of suffering in the heat. Thank you for a great walk.(We're practicing for the Big Parade - May 19/20, 2012, and May 18 for the prologue. See: www.bigparadela.com)
This is the Big Parade's annual Stair Trek - a 22+ mile, 75-stairway walk in Los Angeles. This year, 48 people started and 17 people suffered to the finish. For more info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bigparade/And for turn-by-turn directions: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=205985820195038683000.0004696ade8a7d1a421e1&msa=0&ll=34.093042,-118.252029&spn=0.024238,0.05285
Stair Trek is the annual mega-stairway walk, organized by The Big Parade Los Angeles. The route has evolved over the past six years, and includes - over its 22-mile length - 71 public stairways. The route is designed by me, Dan Koeppel, and the overall goal is to never double back (in the entire Trek, there's only 200 meters of retracing our steps) and to never go up and down the same stairway...
Superloop: 14 Miles, Downtown, Dirt, and Stairs




Los Angeles, California, United States
Walking | 14.3 miles
Walking | 14.3 miles
This is the final draft of the Big Parade's 14 mile, stairs and dirt training walk, as done on December 26, 2010.Note: This walk involves some urban bushwhacking - a few fences to climb through; some sketchy areas; and some arguable trespass. So, I'm recommending that you never, ever, actually do it - and if you do, that's your problem.The walk begins at the Chinatown Metro Station in downtown Los Angeles. It...
A little walk with my Dad to find some butterflies
Napeague, New York, United States
Walking | 0.2 miles
Walking | 0.2 miles