This is the first of more frequent, picture heavy blog posts I plan to put out. Less writing, more pictures! For the last three weeks, Rose and I have been hiking in the Dolomites. The second half of August and all of September, we were climbing intensely in Slovenia. We had wanted to be in the Dolomites in the fall […]
I’ve been holding out. A bit. We have found our winter home-base in Leonidio and bought an apartment. When Rose and I left for Europe in August last year, we didn’t know exactly how it would turn out. We might get worn out from travel after a few months and return to Boulder homesick before Thanksgiving. Or we might continue […]
With a little bit of Italy, Malta, Hvar, and Belgrade mixed in. We spent most of December in a Unesco World Heritage site. Named (in Bosnian) for it’s old bridge, Mostar nestles between three mountains in the southern part of the Balkan country of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Mostar is most known for it’s medieval bridge and Ottoman-style old town. […]
Quito, the capital of Ecuador, is located in the heart of the Andes Mountains at 9,350 feet above sea level. It’s surrounded by snowy volcanic peaks, long ridges, and volcanic craters. Thousands of miles of hiking trails criss-cross these mountains and pass through the most spectacular scenery you can imagine. Rose and I spent a month in Quito, Ecuador in […]
The day before yesterday, Kiran and I climbed the Aiguille de la Republique via the Voie Normale. Opting to rappel an adjacent route rather than down-climb the route, we were 16 hours camp to camp from our comfy bivvy under a huge boulder 25 minutes from the base of the route. The Aiguille de le Republique is the most curious looking […]
Scotland was one of those places we were interested in visiting, but was by no means at the top of the list. Learning about fell running changed that. “For those in the US not familiar with the uniquely British activity known as fell running, then you should be thinking steep rugged hills on low lying terrain, likelihood of crap weather and nasty […]
Mountain bike tour on the Grand Randonee 5 from Genk, BE to Ettelbruck, LU. Day 4 – Single Trail and Hike-a-bike That hotel in Cornelyshaff had some of the greatest food I’d ever had. Both breakfast and dinner were phenomenal. Probably partially due to how hungry Rose and I were, but also all the food they served was locally grown/made.After […]
Mountain bike tour on the GR5 from Genk, BE to Ettelbruck, LU. Day 3 – Rose in a cloud The next day started off in a typical bleak, gray, Central-European fashion in Stavelot. I noticed one of the cuts in my right hand had become infected. Probably all the romping around in the swamp I did the previous day. The […]
What Is Chamonix? Don’t expect to come to Chamonix and be the cool climber guy/irl. Sure, you’ll be the object of amusement for plenty of tourist gawkers amazed that you just climbed ‘that’, but if you catch the first lift up the Aiguille du Midi in the morning, you’ll see that Alpinism is the norm here. “Did he just say lift? I […]