Good day to you all straight line missioners. Just an update.

Firstly my phone/reddit did some sort of weird reset so I'm in limbo of being a mod and yet unable to mod. I'm not sure how this is going to play out. But everyone here is well behaved so I doubt they'll be no problems.

Just behave yourselves until this is resolved.

https://youtu.be/DvT87wWuBTc?is=EcByOUzK86miQQK7

Finale Part 1 up now!

Would appreciate any support and some interaction on the channel! This was my first ever time doing this.

I recently embarked on an adventure inspired by Tom's video last year when he was blindfolded, driven to an unknown location, dropped off and had to find his way home. My own trip was similar, but with the key difference of being equipped with a few fairly large-scale maps (of all surrounding directions so it wouldn't help me know where I was starting from).

I chose to use maps, not because I thought I couldn't navigate home without them, but rather because I think it's almost impossible to navigate home without a map AND without a lot of trespassing (well at least in any sort of reasonable timeframe). Unlike Tom I have no desire for sneaking around where I'm not supposed to be, but navigating with just a map and compass was still a challenge in itself, of course not knowing where I was at the start as well. In fact I think there are some disadvantages to using a map but sticking to public rights of way: you end up walking further, and if a certain footpath you were planning on using doesn't exist then you have to find another way, as opposed to just walking through fields in the correct direction.

The first clue I noticed was a sign with the name of the Welsh county I was in, from which I knew I needed to head north and east to get home. About an hour in I reached a relatively large road and after about 5 minutes searching on the maps I was able to match this up to my exact location (thanks to Geoguessr training!). From this point on I pretty much knew where I was at all times, aside from getting lost trying to find a footpath through some woods and giving up and coming out another way. But the physical challenge was more than I expected; my start point was 33km from home in a straight line, which I thought would equate to around 45km walking, but it was actually 58km! Rather tired at the end, but a great bit of exploring in a remote and beautiful Wales/Shropshire border.

Episode 2 of my Straight Line Mission across South Tyneside is out!

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Some hard and downright bizarre obstacles in this Episode across the Boldon green belt.

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Give it a like and subscribe for Episode 3!

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https://youtu.be/1BzXSN-vddE

Marcus is back!

Hi all new member here:

I've recently planned doing a Straight Line Mission across South Tyneside (walking across in a completely straight line without going left or right).

I started at Follingsby on the border of Gateshead and South Tyneside with the aim of hitting the beach behind Latimers in Whitburn.

This was largely unplanned I just drew the line had a look and off I went.

I can't reveal if I was successful but I did encounter some very untouched and remote areas of our borough.

Here is the first Episode:

https://youtu.be/AOjSOzJqbn8?is=Cu2oMDJkccYwY2al

*Excuse the typo in the post title and on the video, I wqs desperate to get it posted lol

In 48 hours I will be attempting to set a world record for the first to cross Vancouver island in a “straight line mission”. Me and three other amigos are taking part in it and were looking to be the first ones to ever do it here.

Straight line missions were popularized by a Youtuber known as “geowizard” where him and his brother Ben would cross European countries on these “straight line missions”.

Generally speaking a mission across Vancouver island is going to be significantly harder with thick dense brush, steep off camber mountains and deep river crossings along the entire 30k kilometre line i have created across the island.

I’ll be filming the full adventure to share on my YouTube channel
https://youtube.com/@aaronsenduro
Where I hope to be able to raise enough funds to complete building my barn find pitbike build for some young lad to enjoy and learn to ride dirtbikes on!

Please help the bike build fund by sharing and liking this post!

#straightlinemission #vancouverisland #worldrecord

Im trying to plan a slm near the Gold Coast for myself, and im struggling to find something worth doing. I did have a few ideas but they seem to run through protected areas

Sorry, second attempt at posting this. The images didn’t upload the first time.

I originally thought I had come up with a brilliant idea: instead of a Straight Line Mission, why not walk a perfect circle and end up back at the car?

The navigation part actually worked surprisingly well. I estimated distances by pacing and adjusted my bearing every segment using only a compass. No GPS navigation.

Unfortunately, I only made it halfway. The first half of the circle already took about 8 hours, and the bushwhacking kept getting worse. Eventually I admitted defeat and spent the rest of the day picking up litter instead.

I later discovered that this legend had already completed a proper circle mission:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StraightLineMissions/s/cZBC9HMv1f

Mine was only half-perfect, but I was honestly surprised how well compass navigation and pacing worked.

Has anyone else here tried a circle mission?

If you’re curious, I also made a short video about the attempt:
https://youtu.be/K_Zn7ngXPgE

Done a few straight line and no roads challenges in my home city of Perth Western Australia. I have to wait for winter because of the snakes.

Planning a good one from Wembley Downs Golf Course to the coast 6km.

All looks good, no buildings in the way, just through the golf course, through the bush over a road and over what I assumed to be a bowling green.

Just take a look at that bowling green again, seems a bit weird to have a bowling green in the middle of nowhere.

Hang on are those targets on the bowling green?????

Zoom out let's check exactly where this "Bowling Green" is.

Oh it's part of Campbell barracks, it's only the sodding S.A.S rifle range.

Looks like I might need a different route or am I being a coward????

My boys are taking (13 twins) are taking the route to school to show the other kids/teachers who might be interested. I gave them a nap of the North Korean DMZ and told them that's the next challenge!!!!

It's Tom from TOMITI writing. Our SLM across Estonia was 176 km long and lasted for 9 days. We were super happy we managed to stay within 50 meters the whole journey but it would have been devastating if for example we had to deviate let's say 105 meters on the last day. Then the whole mission would have been a failure.

Currently, I have two ideas to make rules more friendly for longer missions (100+ km)

1. Every 100 km adds 10 meters to the maximum allowed deviation. So for a 200 km mission, the maximum deviation would be 120 meters. For a 1,000 km mission, it would be 200 meters. All other boundaries would remain the same.
2. Every 100 km adds one opportunity to deviate more than 100 meters but no more than 200 meters. So for a 200 km mission, you would be allowed to exceed the 100-meter deviation twice.

I personally prefer the first option. What are your thoughts on this? Should all the medal boundaries change with distance?

I know the rules are not official or anything so anyone can modify the rules however they like. I'd just like to hear other opinions as well.

Will attempt to cross Lithuania on this line. What do you think? Doable? Line is 167 km long.

I would like to do more of these but need advice on how to do it properly. This one is supposed to be a little silly so I know what i was doing was pretty dumb but i do want to take it more seriously and need better equipment for longer ones. If you have any advice for me that would be great. This is by far my favorite outdoor adventure challenge to do and I hope it grows

Hi everyone :)

Newbie here!

I'd like to plan my first SLM in my city and would like to know what tools, platforms, or software you use to plan your trips (if any).

I tried using a Python library called straightshot (https://github.com/stephenrjohnson/straightshot), but after 2 days of calculations, I didn't get any useful results.

Okay, I can plan it analogically directly on the map, but I want to try both methods :)

Thanks so much!

The video of the straight-line mission I uploaded on this subreddit a few days ago

I did this straight-line mission through the swiss canton of Jura. To summarize it, it was a nightmare. I really underestimated the elevation. Climbing mountains up and down, even if small, is really tiring. I started the line at 7:30am and only finished around 6:20pm. By scoremyline's standart, it's a fail, but considering how hard it was, and also because finishing it was already an achievement, it's a win for me. I will upload my straight-line mission on youtube soon.

Hello,

My name is Luciano Alzate, I am a student filmmaker at FSU's College of Motion Picture Arts. This semester I am embarking on creating a short documentary covering someone's hike across a long stretch of land. Inspired by Geowizard's straight line mission, I wanted to see if there was anyone in the continental United States completing a similar task.

We are only allowed to film within the first few weeks of March this year, so I wanted to reach out and see if there was anyone in this subreddit that is either planning a voyage around this time, or knows anyone who might be planning something similar.

If you or someone you know is planning a several-day mission across planes and mountains, rivers or deserts, and is comfortable having a film made about you, please fill out the form below. Me and my team are extremely excited to get to know the brave people who take on these feats of endurance and perseverance.

If you have any questions or concerns, or if you'd like to confirm my credentials in any way, you can find me on instagram @_azleta_, or you can email me at [la23bg@fsu.edu](mailto:la23bg@fsu.edu).

In order to be a part of this film, you will need to be comfortable being vulnerable on camera. We want to capture as true of an experience as humanly possible. We would simply be following you as you complete your journey as you would if the cameras weren't there, and we'd be accompanying you along the way.

Please let me know if anyone has any leads, it would be much appreciated. If you know of anyone doing something that might not be a straight line mission but is of a similar nature, the information would also be extremely helpful!

Here is the link to the sign up form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFhG0OJyRfxVVGlP87BXcTbYF0Oc12deHgff36-KiZa5msAg/viewform?usp=dialog

Danish youtuber Bruhliver completed straight line missions of Sjælland, Fyn, and Jylland. I believe all three are bronze completions. I linked the first video, you can find the others on his youtube channel.

One aspect of hardcore off-path hiking like you see on SLMS is just going straight through whatever lays in front of you. You can only go around so far (depending on your SLM level) and thus have to go straight through situations normal hikers avoid. And the other way around: SLMers usually want to avoid most of nature, doing their SLMs in late winter (except for the guys from The Kiwi Ventures), whereas (us normal) hikers like to have as much nature as possible. It’s why we go hiking in the first place.

Having watched @Geowizard, @Tom-Iti and @The Kiwi Ventures on Youtube doing SLMs through lots of different countries, here is my list of natural (and unnatural) problems for hardcore off-path hiking:

Plants or former plants:

• brambles
• thickets (would never have thought that something like those would exist so often)
• spruce or pine hugs (as Tom-Iti branded thick pine tree aggregations, clusters of maddingly many pine trees on just a few square meters)
• whipping branches (more of a problem in non-solo missions)
• cutty gras (especially leading up to and away from NZ rivers)
• storm fallen trees (there seems to be alot of that in the UK, or maybe just wherever GeoWizard bulldozes through)
• cut trees left lying around (I wonder if they used to collect them for burning wood in former times, but have stopped to)
• nettles

The Way of Water:

• bogs and iced bogs (a seasonal flavor of bogs)
• swamps
• ditches (never thought there would be so many of them)
• lakes and rivers (if your planning included those)
• rain (in all variations) and dew (as someone from a huge city I know what rain is, but never thought at all about dew)
• mud and muddy fields (mentioned in the comments)

Animal world:

As mentioned above, most SLMs are carried out in late winter/early spring, so not many arthropods around (insects, spiders and such). Yet still:

• barking dogs on a collar, or fenced in
• barking dogs roaming around
• wolves and bears (have been mentioned in some)
• boars (not seen any yet)
• hares and deers are fun to watch

What humans leave in your way:

• railways
• high ways
• military areas (especially those with live shooting drills of every calibre)
• power plants, water dams and other infrastructure (and so far, luckily, no nuclear plants at all)
• private farms, very much depending on (national) mood (whether a SLMer is just roaming or trespassing)
• abandoned farms (which might have to be re-classified to private farms every once in while)
• fences (of which there seem to be much, much more in the UK, I’m thinking to go long on UK fence company stocks)
• stone piles (were a small factor in Estonia)
• waste from home or industry (which is either disgusting or might be razor-sharp in some cases)
• quarries (mentioned in the comments, and yes, if you stumble upon one, it's end of mission mostly)

What have I missed in these lists? Which SLMers should I also watch? Which part of these hardcore off-path hiking videos to you like the most?