I have wanted to visit Arches and Canyonlands national park for a while now and recently i had some time off work so i decided to take a road trip out to those parks. Initially i hesitated to take this trip and government shutdown happened and it wasn’t possible to go anyway but when utah…
Category: Hiking
Backpacking to Horton Lake and Climbing Mt Tom
This memorial day weekend i wanted to do a multi day dive trip but at the same time i thought some backpacking trip in the high sierras would be a good training exercise. Sung wanted to go to Horton Lake and climb Mt Tom so i decided to join him since none of the multi…
Hiking North Fork trail, Big Pine Creek
I have hiked this trail as day hike in 2010 and have been wanting to go back again to do it as a backpacking trip so this trail has always been on my radar. I had planned it out for new years but had to cancel it so when i had a friday off along…
Sometimes its good to take a break.
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…
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…
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…