Gift guide · For outdoor people

The gift for the hiker who already owns all the gear

From the Gotta Go There team · 4 min read

They have the boots. The pack. The headlamp, the merino, the stove, and at least three water bottles. Every birthday and Christmas you end up guessing, and it ends up in a drawer.

Here's one they don't have yet, and one they'll actually use: a deck of playing cards where every card is one of the world's great hikes.

The Gotta Go There Hiking Edition by a waterfall with cards spread on the moss — The Hiking Edition. A real deck, 52 real trails.

1It's two proper decks of cards

Two full 52-card decks in every box, standard poker size, jokers included. Play 500, poker, rummy, snap or solitaire, or our signature game where everyone builds a dream trip and argues for it. It lives in the lid of the pack and comes out every night in the hut or the tent, which is more than you can say for most gifts.

2Every card is a trail they'll want to do

The Ace of Hearts is the Inca Trail. The Ace of Diamonds, the Pacific Crest Trail. The Ace of Spades, the Appalachian. The Ace of Clubs, Torres del Paine. Keep going and you'll find Everest Base Camp, the Tour du Mont Blanc, Kilimanjaro, and home-grown ones like the Overland Track.

The four Aces. See all 52 on the Hiking Edition page.

3Each card says when to go and how hard it is

A colour strip shows the best months, January to December. Mountain icons rate the scenery, difficulty and facilities, and a pin shows where it is in the world. It's a bucket list and a shortlist in one.

The 6 of Hearts card, Chapada dos Veadeiros in Brazil, showing the best-months strip and ratings — 6 of Hearts, Chapada dos Veadeiros: best months June to August.

4It starts the best conversations

Pick up a hand and someone says "I've done that one." Somebody else says "we should do that next year." That's where the name came from: a night with no signal, an old deck of cards, and a growing list of places we'd gotta go.

Hands holding a fan of Gotta Go There cards beside a creek

5Rider in the family? There's a Mountain Bike Edition too

Same idea, 52 of the world's best bike parks and trail networks: Whistler, Queenstown, Les Gets, and Tasmania's Blue Derby and Maydena. Get one of each and cover both kinds of outdoor people.

6A small Australian brand, first print run

Posted by us from Australia within 2–5 business days. If they don't love it, you've got 30 days to sort it out with us at contact@gottagothere.com.au. The first print run is small, so if it's for Christmas, order early.

Most people buy two

One to keep, one to give. Two boxes (4 decks) ship free.