In fact, the Rocky Mountains in winter are more charming than in summer. Yang Jing had never experienced the Rocky Mountains in winter before, but now he suddenly came here and truly felt the unique charm of the Rocky Mountains in winter. This made him unable to help but temporarily give up the idea of traveling back to the 1980s, and instead prepared to walk along the mountain road and completely relax himself.
The Rocky Mountains are not only the backbone of North America, but also a paradise for North American hiking enthusiasts.
There are countless challenging hiking trails in the Rocky Mountains. Any one of them can keep hikers discussing for days, such as the Yosemite National Park hiking trail, the Ordorado National Forest Park hiking trail, and of course the California hiking trail, which is known as the most beautiful and most difficult hiking trail in the world.
The shortest length of this route is more than 800 kilometers. Although it cannot be compared with the world's longest hiking route, the Bibboune Trail in Western Australia, which is 1,002 kilometers long, the California hiking route is arguably the most difficult and most beautiful route in the world.
In fact, California hiking routes are just a general term, which refers to the route starting from the border between California and Oregon, and then going south along the Rocky Mountains to near Los Angeles. In this area with a length of 800 kilometers, a width of more than 100 kilometers, a total area of more than 80,000 square kilometers, and nine national parks and hundreds of state parks, there are countless routes for hikers to choose from. No matter what you choose, as long as you can walk through the mountains from the northernmost tip of California to near Los Angeles, you will have completed the greatest hiking in the world.
Countless hiking enthusiasts around the world challenge this hiking route every year. Some of them have died in the process of conquering this route, but this still cannot stop hikers from loving this route.
Even though it is winter now, in this stretch of mountains, no one knows how many people are conquering this route.
It was as if Yang Jing had walked about four or five kilometers into the mountains along a sparsely populated mountain road when he met two hikers who were resting.
Seeing Yang Jing walking down the mountain alone with a travel bag on his back, the big man with a beard greeted Yang Jing with a smile.
Yang Jing was a little happy about the friendly attitude, after all, he had a typical Asian face. But at the same time, he was also very curious, because the two hikers in front of him were very dusty, and it was obvious that they had traveled a long way to get here.
"Hey, hello, are you also hikers? I'm Albert Yang, from China." Walking up to them, Yang Jing also sat down.
"Chinese? Hi, hello, I'm Tony Oldman, and this is my wife Nicole Oldman. We're both from New Zealand. Albert, nice to meet you. Are you also planning to go hiking in the mountains?"
The two travellers were a man and a woman. The man was about 30 to 40 years old and looked very sturdy. As for his wife, she looked a little slender, but quite pretty.
"Yes, I've heard that the Rocky Mountains are beautiful, but I've never had the time to experience them up close. I happened to have some free time these days, so I decided to hike into the mountains to enjoy the winter scenery of the Rocky Mountains. What about you?"
"Haha, my husband and I came to the Rocky Mountains four weeks ago, but the starting point of our hike is not here, but in Happy Camp further north, which is about 400 kilometers away from here."
"Happy Camp? You started from Happy Camp? Jesus Christ, you are awesome." Yang Jing gave the couple a thumbs up, his tone full of admiration.
Happy Camp is located at the border of California and Oregon, deep in the Rocky Mountains, on the banks of the Klamath River. It is a very famous camping site. Every year, a large number of hikers go to that town and start hiking from there.
The straight-line distance from Happy Camp to here is almost more than 400 kilometers, but this refers to the straight-line distance on the map. If you want to walk from Happy Camp to here, the actual walking route is at least 200 kilometers more.
If it were on flat land, a 600-kilometer journey would take at most half a month or twenty days on foot, but walking such a long distance through the mountains would greatly increase the difficulty. It was already quite amazing that the couple was able to walk from Happy Camp to here in four weeks.
"Tony, are you and your wife challenging the California hiking route?" Yang Jing asked curiously.
"Yes, my husband and I met through hiking more than ten years ago. After we got married, we would go on a long hike and several short and medium-distance hikes every year. This time, we were going to challenge the most difficult hiking route in California, so we came here after three months of preparation. Now, we have completed half of this route, and it is estimated that we will be able to complete this challenge in another four to five weeks."
"Wow, you two are awesome!" Yang Jing praised with a smile. Tony accepted Yang Jing's praise with a carefree attitude, while his wife smiled a little shyly.
Seeing the exhausted couple, Yang Jing suddenly remembered the four guys he met in Alert last year who crossed the North American continent on foot. He said, "In fact, I met four crazy people when I went to Alert, the northernmost part of Canada, last year. Yes, their actions were really no different from those of crazy people in my opinion, but I also admired their actions because the four of them actually took nine months to cross the entire North American continent and finally arrived in Alert."
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