Jan Flokstra's Travel and Hiking page.
Spitsbergen 2008/Dickson Island, descending Ragnarbreen.
This page contains a summary of my travels since 1995, the year I
started my long distance walking 'career':-) After I finished
the gr5 and completed the top-3 of my trekking wishlist
[
K2
-
Everest
-
Patagonia
]
I started in 2005, together with my work at the university, a career as
trekking-guide
for
HT Wandelreizen
.
- 2011
- 2010
- In september I cycled from Enschede to the Mediterranean Sea near Cap Agde.
- In july I guided the HT
Spitsbergen
trip for the second time.
This time I also completed the very spectacular circuit on Dickson Island.
- In may I did the
Manaslu "The hard way" trip in Nepal, a 23 day trek around the Manaslu (8201m) in Central Nepal crossing the Rupina La en the Larkya La.
- 2009
- In the summer I guided the HT trek to
Sermalik Fjord on the east coast of Greenland.
Two nice photoseries of this trip have been made by by
Kitty
and
Duco.
- In spring I did the kora around
Mount Kailash the holy mountain in West Tibet. We aproached the mountain from the Humla district in Nepal trekking along the Karnali river.
We returned through the very remote Limi vally in Nepal.
On the flanks of Mt. Kailash we spotted a group of snowleopards. My pictures of
these very rare animals can be found
here
.
- In september I cycled 2 weeks over the long distance cycle route
"R1" from Enschede to Berlin.
- 2008
- In july guided this years HT trip to
Spitsbergen
where it it was very cold this year so the North Pole will probably not melt this(!) year.
-
In june did another mountaineering course in the Stubai Alps in Austria
at the Sulzenau Hutte.
- In may I walked a new section of my foot trip to Rome. I walked 330 km from Montabaur in the Westerwald to Pforzheim in the 'Schwarzwald' over the E1, Rheinhohenweg, E8 Pfalzer Wald variant and back to the E1 again.
- 2007
-
The last 2 weeks of the year I have been walking on the isles of La Palma and La Gomera.
-
In october visited Nepal for the spectacular trek around the
Dhaulagiri
massif.
-
In august I guided a trek across the famous Brooks Range in Arctic
Alaska .
We walked in 16 days from Chandalar Lake to Gailbraith Lake in the
remote area east of the Dalton Highway.
-
In june I did the
HT climbing course
in the Oetztaler Alps in Austria.
-
In may I walked a new stage of my foot trip to Rome. This time I
walked 220 km from Marsberg to Montabaur on the
E1
and the
Rothaarsteig.
- 2006
-
In november with HT to
Jordan
.
Lots of canyon hiking (Wadi Ibn Hammad, Wadi Numeira, Wadi ...).
We walked in 5 days from Dana to Petra and did a 2 day trek in Wadi Rum
.
-
In august I guided a backpacking trip to the very remote
Kamchatka
peninsula for
HT
.
This area, called "Russia's ring of fire", is located in the extreme east of
Russia and is famous for it's vulcanos and its wildlife.
A nice photo series of this trip made by Daan Stegeman can be found
here
.
- 2005
-
Around Christmas and New Year I went with a group to
Mauritanie (link fails)
for a 300km walk through the Sahara from Terjit to Tijika over the incredibly
beautiful and remote Adrar and Tagant plateaus. Because of the security
situation in the country the trip is not in the program anymore
.
-
In october I did an experimental trip
to the Nanda Devi
massif in Nortern India. We walked from Mundoli to Roop Kund and after that over
Kuari Pass to Josimath. Secondly we did a lower than planned trek
because of the early winter on which we visited the Rudrenath and Tugnath
temples.
-
In june I guided a trip for
HT Wandelreizen
to Iceland.
This was the very beautifull
Hekla & Landmannalaugar
trek; 10 days of very wild walking between lava, steam-vents, ice-caps, hot baths and ice-cold rivers.
-
In the spring I went Munro bagging in Nortern Scotland where I added
another 35 to my collection. My total now is 53. We visited Glen Lyon,
Torridon and the south side of the Cairngorms.
Pakistan 2004, trekking on the Baltoro Glacier beneath the mighty Gasherbrun IV
- 2004
- Late October 2 weeks of good weather in Southern Spain. Walked in the
Alpujarras, climbed Mulhacen and did a lot of walking in the
beautiful and sunny Cabo da Gata park near Almeria.
-
In the summer I did the
K2 and Gondogoro-La
trek in the beautiful Karakoram mountains of Pakistan.
- In May to 3 weeks in the Sierra de Cadi in Nortern Spain. Lots of snow in the higher parts. Climbed the Pedraforca and 2 other mountains near Saldes.
- 2003
-
The last 2 weeks of october I've been walking the West Highland Way in
Scotland and have climbed my first 18 Munros along the way.
A trip report can be found HERE(dutch).
-
The
final segment of the GR5!
from Modane to Nice. Finished my
longest walk to date. I walked a total of 2400 kilometer in 9 years on this route.
-
Motorcycle trip in the spring. In two weeks via the Vogezen to the Southern Provence and back.
2002
- The month of April hiking on the Colorado plateau in the USA. Main treks
were Coyote Gulch(Escalante), Chesler Park(Canyonlands NP), Neon/Escalante/Harris Canyon
loop(Escalante) and finally the famous Paria Canyon trek.
2001
-
In may 2 weeks through Arizona and the
Californian Sierra's. A diary and photo serie
can be found
HERE.
-
In juli the annual GR5 stage. This year from
La Chapelle d'Abondance to Modane.
A photo serie of the trip can be found
HERE.
-
Start of september we went hiking in the Catalan Pyrenees. We did 4 multiday treks.
The areas we hiked in were the Aguies Tortes, Posets and Maladeta and the
beautifull Ordesa - Gavarnie area.
2000
- I had lots of plans for 2000 but 13'th of May I was victim of the Enschede
fireworks disaster. We live some 300 meter from the explosion centre and our
house was hit very bad. Some pictures of the damage to my house, car and
street can be found here. We lived in Borne for a half
year.
-
Luckily we could find some time for vacation so we made a 3 week long
motortrip to Corsica.
- GR5, traject Pontarlier - La Chapelle d'Abondance (Alps).
1999
- GR5 traject Barr - Pontarlier (Jura).
- A trek of 10 days in the French and Spanish Pyrenees around Gavarnie
spending most of the time in the beautiful Ordesa National park.
A PDF format trip-report can be found
here
1998
- GR5, Mondorf les Bains - Barr (Alsace)
- Patagonia trip, in december and januari I
went to Southern Chili and Argentinia with a group of the
NKBV, the dutch mountaineering association.
We hiked the "Lago Dientes circuit" on Isla Navarino, the "Circuit" in the
Torres del Paine NP and a trek along the edge of Fitzroy and Cerro Torre
in the Los Glaciaros NP in Argentina.
During this trip I wrote a diary (dutch, 150K).
This site also hosts the
homepage for this trip(in dutch with pictures).
1997
- GR5, Maastricht - Spa.
- GR5, Spa - Mondorf les Bains(Luxemburg).
- Jerez the la Frontera, to the last Formula I race of 1997. Approx. 6000 km
on an off-the-road motorcycle.
1996
- Israel.
- Pieterpad, Holten - Maastricht.
- Nepal-Tibet trip, this document describes my trip
to Nepal and Tibet in 1996. The first 4 weeks I trekked from Jiri to
Everest Base Camp and crossed over Cho La to Gokyo valley.
The last 2 weeks I made a trip over
the Friendship Highway to Lhasa.
A photo-archive of this trip can be found here.
A shorter description of this trip can be found at the
Anders Reizen site.
1995
- A short trip to the Eastern Sierra's along the 395 in Eastern California.
Lake Tahoe, Mono Lake and a short walk at the foot of Mt.Whitney.
- Alaska, We travelled 6 weeks in this beautiful part of the world. From
Seattle we went to Prince Rupert. There we took the boat through the
"Inside Passage" to Juneau, Sitka, Haines and finally Skagway. From there we
travelled overland to Valdez from where we took the boat to Kodiak. After
that we went to Homer, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Denali etc ....
- Pieterpad, Pieterburen - Holten.
Author on Spitsbergen 2010 (Photo by Andries Datema)
Interesting Travel and Hiking links.
Several homepages and personal travel pages.
Jan Flokstra
Universiteit Twente
Faculteit Informatica
Kamer: INF 3015
Telefoon: +31 53 4893721
E-mail: flokstra@cs.utwente.nl