 Hi, we are Dane and I led from iGaulix and in this video we will show you the most beautiful places, the most challenging hikes and the most rewarding views we saw in 2022. And with this video we hope to inspire you to go outdoors as well. Now on to the 2022 recap hike edition. So let's start with the longest trail we hiked this year and that is the Tour de Montblanc. It's 170 kilometers long around the Mont Blanc Massif and it goes to France, Italy and Switzerland. And with 10,000 meters of elevation gain, it was quite a challenge. And let's talk about our best day hike in 2022. That was in Bestie National Nature Reserve here in France. We call it the Yosemite of Europe. This hike was so rewarding, it was lots of climbing and declining and the views on top are just incredible. Within this day hike we had the feeling that we escaped society within just a few hours. The highest point of 2022. The highest point we reached while we were hiking was on the Coolder Four at an altitude of almost 2700 meters. It was on our fourth day of the Tour de Mont Blanc after a very rewarding climb the day before. However we were even higher on the Iquille du Midi at an altitude of almost 4000 meters, 3842 meters to be precise. That's if we count cable cars. Yeah, and if we have some French people watching by the way, let us know if we pronounce Iquille du Midi the right way. We'd love to know your feedback on that. I think it's even called Accrete du Midi. Accrete, ecuille, ecuille, okay now let's go to the most challenging trail mentally. Hiking trails can also be mentally challenging. We could talk about that for hours and hours of course but in this video we will just review our most challenging hike. Physically for us this trail wasn't demanding, it were long stretches with not much climbing and we were well trained, however it was mentally demanding for us. Yeah we are used to seeing different mountains and landscapes within every few hours in the high elves we were at the TNB but here in Sweden every landscape is vast. It's absolutely beautiful but some days we woke up and we were back in our tent and looking at the way ahead of us we already could see the end destination of that day which was like 25 kilometers ahead of us. For me it was super challenging because I was feeling a little bit homesick at that time. I really miss my family in the Netherlands. Death combined with the intense silence for days in a row and the endless landscape. The Koenslede was mentally challenging for me. It is really really really quiet on the Koenslede. If you haven't been there you have to experience it once because it's really quiet. So what was the most challenging trail physically for us? It's of course the Tour de Mogla. I already said it in the beginning of this video. It's 170 kilometers long with 10,000 meters of elevation gain and you climb every single day. Yeah every prepared big time for this trail, trained a lot and lived in the mountains for six months before starting this trail. We heard from multiple people we met along the trail that they had to stop because the trail was too demanding on their bodies. Now let's head over to the most fun hiking trail we did last year. It was actually a section hike. It was the ladder section of the Tour de Mogla. It was an absolute blast. The famous stairs. The famous stairs. I always thought that it was only like three stairs because everybody only filmed probably the first three but I think it are like ten, ten-ish. Ten? We're not there yet? No. So a few steps but it's pretty cool. Yeah this part was a little bit more technical than just hiking but nothing too scary. This part of the Tour de Mogla trail is also possible to do as a day hike as well. Now let's go over to our most surprising hike we had in 2022. The people who saw our Father Sam video know that the beginning of the day didn't really go as planned. We missed our train stop and stepped out at the train at the completely wrong place. We decided to just follow our random trail in order to find our original starting point of the trail. The hike to reach that point was incredibly beautiful and we even saw a snake. Did you forget when you're in Europe there are still snakes? Well and I heard Dane scream and it was like the highest pitch I ever heard. Yeah for the people who missed that video really make sure to check it out. We had a lot of fun over there. Let's talk about trail magic. Let's hear it! Trail magic is so wonderful acts of people will help you along the trail. In the States it is more well known people like the Pacific Crash Trail, the Continental Defiant Trail or the Appalachian Trail or any other long distance trail will experience trail magic. Yeah it's the kind of acts of people who are not hiking the trail but provide the hikers who are hiking the trail with water, they cook hamburgers for instance or they give you a ride to the nearby towns so our first trail magic. My brother Chris picked us up on a section of the TMB. The weather was really terrible when we had to climb a big mountain pass to reach Switzerland. And right when we were about to start the ascent a big thunderstorm flew over so we couldn't cross it anymore. Thanks bro! Good luck with the hike! Yeah and luckily my brother Chris was actually in the Chamonix area during the time so he picked us up and drove us to the other side of the mountain. And thanks again Chris, big shout out to you! And actually we had a second trail magic moment this year. Maria brought us back from the end of the Holger Kusteläde back to Ernst Schultzvik so we could get to the public transport system of Sweden. Yeah Maria is working for the Holger Kusteläde Trail Association and we met her on our first day of the Holger Kusteläde and when we finished the trail she was so kind to pick us up. And now on to the most memorable moment of 2022. It was seeing Caddy and David for us on the TMB. Yeah it was our last day on the Tour de Mont Blanc and we saw a kind of wasp or a beetle where it's still not sure what it was but there were some random people walking behind us and we decided okay let's just ask them. Yeah and then they asked us are you creating a video for YouTube and we said well yeah and then they asked are you high-coholics? We recognized your voices and we were so like heart-warming and yeah it was absolutely amazing. It was really crazy because they actually said yeah we saw your Shamanese video and you're the reason we're here but really things like this maker day and we love to inspire people in a way that we did for Caddy and David. So if you ever see us on a trail please come over say hi to us say like give us feedback we really want to meet you on the trail. Yeah and if you're watching this Caddy and David it was really nice seeing you. It gave us an expert boost to continue making these videos. Thank you. So from our most memorable moments to our easiest hike. The easiest hike for us this year was the hike in the Chamonix Mont Blanc Valley named Petit Boccon Sud. I think you can tell but we fell in love with the Chamonix area. There are hikes for every level of hiking experience and even the easiest hike can have rewarding views. Yeah as an example the Petit Boccon Sud like I said there is no technical part there is no physical demanding climbing or declining and during the whole hike you have an amazing view on the Mont Blanc massif. And last but not least the best surprise of modern nature. Without a doubt the best surprise last year was seeing the Northern Lights. Yeah we were four days into the Koenslede and everybody was telling us how special the Northern Lights are and by then we weren't lucky enough to see it yet unfortunately. And that night we came near the AXA SCF hut and the skies were clear it was minus six degrees Celsius everything was freezing but we were 100% sure we would see the Northern Lights. Well let the footage speak for itself. We had an absolutely incredible 2022 from living in the beautiful Chamonix area during winter and hiking the Tour de Mont Blanc around one of the highest mountain ranges in Europe to seeing reindeer, the Northern Lights and vast landscapes in Sweden. We met some amazing people as well and we loved every single second of it. Thanks for watching our 2022 recap hopefully you are inspired to go outdoors yourself. 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