Got my ass royally whooped last weekend on Izta. The plan was to camp at La Joya until 0000 on Sunday and push for the summit by 0800. With around 4500′ to climb, I knew this would be challenging. What I was not ready for, was the elevation sickness that hit me at about 14000′.…
I’ve been wanting to scout out the Izta-Popo national park ever since I got a sneak peek at the volcanoes while in Ikea a few months ago. Several blogs pointed at exploring this region by doing the La Joya traverse which essentially gets one to the base of the Iztaccihuatl volcano. I head out this…
JAN M&S did a whirlwind trip to Abu dhabi, Dubai, Chennai. Weddings and why-not? FEB M,S & I hiked up Shenandoah National Parks highest point – Hawksbill summit The three of us did a flying visit to Houston Took Aarav out on a little hike to Little Bennet regional park. Poor kid trusted me enough…
A few things I’d really like to dumb down or sort out over the next few weeks: Site: This site runs on WordPress, has facets of the indieweb, has ActivityPub and a crude implementation of self engineered micropost interface. All cool but needs quite a trim to make the best use of all these features.…
At 12,220 ft and after a 3-hour climb, it felt like home and more importantly I felt real strong. This was my first decent hike in quite some time now and I was pleasantly surprised my body wasn’t really complaining. Early this month, M and I spoke about getting back into the hiking circuit. It’s…