I have 10 days to spend backpacking in the Pyrenees in August, I'm driving there so where should I aim to? French or Spanish side?

Looking for nice trails, mountain lakes to swim and sunbathe nearby and hopefully not many people around. I want to summit Aneto or Mount perdido.
Thanks.

I just paid for Alltrail Peak. As far as I can tell the main difference so far is it lets you draw custom maps on their maps. What's funny is you pay 80 dollars a year, and those naggers STILL won't pay the licensing fees to give us back the Topo maps they had for years. I am hoping paying this money allows me to get some glimpse of community content/user submitted trails - I've found all sorts of cool stuff on unofficial trails. They also took away the ability to see user photos while hiking on the trail, which let you position yourself for the best views, and now they have a community heatmap which is strangely much less useful.

Custom Routes gives you the ability to build your ideal trail, whether it’s a short loop or a multi-night through-hike. Members can start from scratch, customize existing trails, and use new AllTrails smart-routing, which leverages AI to make a trail shorter, less steep, or “more scenic” with just a tap.

Trail Conditions provides expected condition information along the trail, including temperature, precipitation, and snow depth. Functioning as a weather app within the AllTrails platform, Trail Conditions combines analysis of 15 weather factors with geospatial intelligence and recent reviews. More than 10 million data points power Trail Conditions, which also includes alerts for air quality and mosquito activity. A future update will add terrain and ground conditions showing pavement, gravel, mud, and more.

Community Heatmap allows you to see trail traffic data to find popular trails or quieter hidden gems. Supported by millions of trailgoers’ activities, Community Heatmap gives insights into recent outdoor activity to help members plan an adventure that aligns with their preferences.

You protect your eggs when backpacking, right?

>a billionaire can prevent you from going to epic wilderness

Sign says "private property, no access to public land"

Caught this guy, Wild rainbow trout, in a lake around 10 O clock. He gave me a huge fight. My arm is yelling at me! Sure was a fighter

What ultralight gear do you currently use?

Are those BIG hunting tour\packs -the ones that involve usage of company boats, helicopters, etc- in "exotic"( from a westerner's pov) locations such as north pole, pakistan mountains for Ibex, etc a tourist trap for rich americans? like the sherpa-carried everest trips?
Are the most expensive hunts neccesarily the most challenging\rewarding ones?
>also HOW much of a richfag do you really need to be, to do stuff like hunt polar bear, warthog, rhinoceros ,etc? multi-millionarie? frugal-living barely upper class guy?
pic not mine, I edited out his face out of politeness

26M Loc: Huntington Beach, CA

I'm interested in learning to surf. Any advice to not have the wave crash down on top of you and be pulled under?

I was wondering about swimming out past the break and just floating around. I'd guess so... But is this hard?

I've been bodyboarding first to get some experience. I also need to lose some weight before I can get myself to pop up

Help plant a tree /out/ this guy from Australia is a true /out/er and makes some absolute kino videos. I have read his book also and I am pretty sure he has a PHD in outdoorsmanship which is unfathomably based.

All the money he makes from this video he will be using to purchase trees and plant them. He is a true role model. Don't judge his /out/ from this video check out his others he has done a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YF95r_Bew

Anyone else think people are way too pussy about ticks? Like just check for them when you are done and pull them off. No need for gross spray.