Oil rigs off long beach are one of my favorite places to dive in southern california and i never pass an opportunity to dive them. When Dana along with Anastasia were planning a private charter i immediately booked my spot. Last time i dove the rigs it was in december, the boat still had my…
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10 Day Mountaineering Course Part 3: Mt Rainier
Day 7: Base Camp on Rainier. We had to get to AAI office by 6.30 in the morning and things got to slow start when we got there but we got moving pretty quickly since there was no gear check or anything involved. Couple of people dropped out for the Rainier part so we were…
10 Day Mountaineering Course Part 2: Mt Baker Summit
Day 4: Ice Climbing We had covered most of the basics required for glacier/snow travel and since we weren’t planning on moving to a high camp for summit attempt, it was decided that we would do some ice climbing. I was really excited by that idea since i have never ice climbed before so it…
10 Day Mountaineering Course Part 1: Snow Skills
I have been wanting to do a formal mountaineering course for a long time but never got a chance to do so, last year i was thinking about going for a 13 day course from Alpine Ascents International but then i got laid off and it was hard to schedule something properly. I wouldn’t have…
Diving the Wrecks in North Carolina Part 2
Day 3: the second day went really good in terms of the food and everything so we decided to follow the same strategy and this time around they had separated our tanks so it made lot easier and faster to get the tanks analyzed and load up on the boat but mother nature had different…
Diving the Wrecks in North Carolina Part 1
As i signed up for this trip which involved diving shipwrecks and with sharks i knew my point and shoot wasn’t going to enough. I had to upgrade my Underwater Camera rig, so after talking to Hal, Hollywood Divers, i bought a used Canon T1i with Sea and Sea housing. I bought two YS-110 alpha…