Feb
09
Ryder-Walker hiking guide Babsi Glanzing said she was dying to visit Capri and the Amalfi Coast. So when the time came to update route descriptions and maps for our self-guided Capri & the Amalfi Coast hiking tour, we knew right where to turn. We bought Babsi a round trip ticket to...
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Jan
23
Throughout our planet some of the most sensational achievements have not been built by architects or even sculpted by artists. In our natural world, from sandstone mountains in Central Europe to the Desert Southwest of our own United States, nature has carved out some of the most beautiful and unique...
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Jan
18
Dave Gruss, our intrepid guide, visited Patagonia and we featured some of his favorite photos on our Instagram profile. Below are a few of his favorite images from our Hiking Argentina & Chile Guided Trip. Have you ever wondered what it's like to hike in Patagonia? Now's your chance to...
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Sep
29
Last week I took a group of 5 men on an 8-day private guided hike through the Pays Basque and French Pyrénées in southern France. Here is a shot of our guest Brent gazing up at the Vignemale (3,298 meters), an incredibly good-looking peak that sits on the border of...
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May
26
I remember the first time we put together our Heart of Austria tour. I hadn't run the trip yet, so I asked one, my colleagues, what it was like. They responded without hesitation, "It's just like our Dolomites Trek!" That's a good thing. Being compared favorably to the Dolomites, specifically...
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Apr
26
Mausoleum of Njegoš This is the Mausoleum of Njegoš. You will have an opportunity to visit on the final day of our Montenegro trek: From the Durmitor Mountain Range to the Bay of Kotor. It's one of the most important monuments in Montenegro. It was built in what is now Lovćen...
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Mar
28
Water, mountains, and sun! We ran two hiking tours in Patagonia during late February and early March, and the trips were a complete success. We had so much fun, and our guests did too! Check out some of our favorite moments. Guests Amy and Ken doing a little mugging for the...
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Mar
08
If you'd like to see the Northern Lights, then you've gotta head north, and there's no better place to be than Norway or Iceland. Their locations along (and above) the Arctic Circle make for incredible viewing, especially during the winter. There's a problem though. The high northern latitudes that make...
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Mar
01
What Is A Rorbu? A rorbu (rorbuer, plural) is a fisherman's cabin and one of the most recognizable symbols (along with codfish) of Norway's Lofoten Islands. The rorbu has distinctive bright red paint and white trim. It is to Norway as the mountain chalet is to Switzerland. Both are a shining...
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Jan
27
Editor's Note: Rogan O’Herlihy guides our England and Scotland hiking tours. He is a native of the famed Cotswolds region in England, and his passion for the area is contagious. We asked him to share a personal recollection of the Cotswolds, and this is his story of Chavenage House. Enjoy!...
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Jan
04
Patagonia, our first guided inn-to-inn hiking tour of 2017, leaves in just a month and-a-half, and we still have a few spots available. What are you doing in late February/early March? Would you like to ditch winter and join us for a hike in South America? Remember, our winter (in...
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Sep
29
This was the day that Terese Broderick fell to earth and changed our lives forever. Terese wore a lot of hats at the Ryder-Walker office. She answered phones, she sold a TON of trips, she wrote proposals, she made hotel reservations, she assembled tour packages, she responded to thousands of...
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