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Onion Valley Road
Ever since I came across John Summerson’s ‘The Complete Guide To Climbing (By Bike) In California’ I’ve been dreaming of riding up all the accessible big mountains in California. Whitney Portal, Onion…
April 16, 2020 -
Reef Bay Trail
St.John in US Virgin Islands has to offer some of the most spectacular beaches with amazing marine life. It is a beach lover’s paradise. The pristine clear waters make snorkeling here an…
April 13, 2020 -
Santa Cruz Island
Channel Islands form an eight island archipelago off the coast of Los Angeles. Like most Angelenos I was only aware of Catalina Island, Santa Catalina to be more precise, which is visible…
April 13, 2020 -
Queenstown Hill
Queenstown hill is a short hike over looking the town. As we didn’t take the Gondola ride to Bob’s Peak, we decided to hike the hill instead. The elevation gain was as…
April 9, 2020 -
Doubtful Sound
I hadn’t heard about Doubtful Sound until about 3-4 days prior to visiting it. To be fair, I hadn’t heard about Milford Sound which is an immensely popular tourist destination until I…
April 9, 2020 -
Routeburn Track
I wanted to do at least one of the nine Great Walks on our New Zealand trip (there will be ten once the Paparoa Track opens in 2019). We had a couple…
April 9, 2020 -
Rob Roy Glacier
On our Air New Zealand flight to Auckland from Los Angeles I came across a video blog Living a Kiwi Life. The flight entertainment system had a few episodes, one of them being…
April 9, 2020 -
Mueller Hut
The Mueller Hut hike featured prominently in all the blogs, travel sites I looked up when I was researching our trip to New Zealand. I was following an excellent itinerary from the…
April 9, 2020 -
Mt Abbot
Little lakes valley is perhaps one my favourite places in the Eastern Sierras. The first time I visited was to climb Bear Creek Spire. I had Little lakes valley back country permits…
April 9, 2020 -
Mt Tyndall
Corinne got 4 permits for Mt.Williamson & Mt.Tyndall to strike the two off her California 14ers list. They were for 10-12 June 2016. I gladly joined and Tomas took the other spot.…
April 9, 2020