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Into the Knuckles

Steep cloud-forest pulls, slick rock and a ridge that floats above the mist, a long day on a little-trodden Knuckles peak, cut from drone and ground footage.

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DIFFICULTY

12km

DISTANCE

7hrs

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+400 m

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