This year my new years resolution was not to “waste” any weekends staying at home. I wanted to spend each of them skiing, diving or hiking. I would try to do something on both saturday and sunday but as long i did something on either of the days it was ok. It went pretty well…
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Anilao Photography Workshop
I recently took a two week vacation to philippines for diving and the first half was also a photography workshop organized by Blue Water Photo/Underwater Photography Guide. I want to describe the trip in another blog post but this is dedicated to what i personally learned about underwater photography from this trip. If after reading…
Price of Reaching the Summit
I wrote this article in Aug 08 and today after hearing about the incident on everest, i had to visit it again and posting it on the new blog with few edits. I read about the recent tragedy to strike the mountaineering world on K2, 11 climbers lost their lives and few suffered from injuries. …
Solo Backpacking: Camping on Summit of Mt Baldy
Since beginning of this year I have really gotten into night photography and Saturday April 7th was a full moon night so I decided it would be a great idea to camp and spend the night on top of mt baldy. In hindsight not such a great idea mainly because of freaking winds on summit…
Ski Performance Development Program: Classes 2-6
I am being lazy here and going to be combine 5 classes in one single post. Most of the times, i get asked what i am learning in this class or what runs are we doing. When i tell people its mainly the basics and most of the times we are on blue runs doing…
Ski Performance Development Program: Class 1
Last year this was called the season long ski school at Mammoth Mountain but this year even though the name was changed the format remained the same. 10 weeks of skiing lessons every sunday with the same instructor and the same group. Earlier in the season i wasn’t sure about taking it again but then…
I love Skiing and Mammoth Mountain
As I start another season long ski school at Mammoth, I sometimes can’t help but think what motivates me to undertake the 600 mile round trip journey every weekend. Of course the obvious answer is to get better at skiing and my ultimate goal is to get into ski mountaineering/back country skiing but there is…
Changing my Diving: GUE Fundamentals
Before reading this please note: This is my personal experience of how my perspective towards diving has changed and how i plan to approach diving going forward. Please excuse me if my terminology is not 100% accurate, corrections/criticisms are always welcome. Since i started diving in nov 07, i have always been around technical divers…
Diving Santa Cruz and Anacapa Island
I cannot remember the last time i dove Santa Cruz so i was really looking forward to some dives on the island and it didn’t disappoint at all. We had been told the previous night that the first dive would be at 7.30 am so we had to be ready by then to get in…
Diving Santa Barbara Island
I signed up for the 2 day diving trip organized by Bluewater Photo fairly early since i have been wanting to dive the northern channel islands again for a long time now. This trip was aboard peace dive boat which i have been on before and i really like it. The service is great, crew…