How to visit remote mountain trails without a car
Exploring remote mountainous regions without a car is often inconvenient due to a lack of super-existent public transport. This forces travelers to navigate complex logistics, making it difficult to access trails independently.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1renting a car to get around
- 2taking buses and cable cars
- 3Hitchhiking
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I spent a week solo in the Dolomites back in 2023, traveling and exploring without a car for most of the time, which was quite inconvenient”source ↗
“Got through a lot of West Africa, Pakistan, Afghanistan and many other places that don’t have super existent public transport that way”source ↗
Where this came up
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