Junior ranger

Working with S on her first ever Junior ranger activity sitting right above the clouds. The park ranger sneaked in an ’eating vegetables’ pact in her oath and handed over a pretty cool wooden badge.

April 4, 2024 · 1 min · 35 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Leleiwi overlook trail

Super short hike up to the overlook. Absolutely mesmerized to see the Tradewinds holding down the sea of clouds!

April 3, 2024 · 1 min · 19 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

La Joya Izta Volcan hike

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 morning to Amecameca - a small quaint town to the east of Mexico City. The bus that left TAPO [Terminal de Autobuses de Pasajeros de Oriente] around 0700 only got to Amecameca by 0900. Should have left earlier! From there at the Centro, I was able to hop into a cab that got me to Paso de Cortes around 0930. ...

January 28, 2024 · 2 min · 293 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Cerro San Miguel Hike

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 been about 9 months that we’ve moved to CDMX and we’ve covered a decent bunch of the touristy stuff. CDMX has so many good hikes to offer and quite a few are reasonably accessible from the city limits. With work-travel, visitors and other schedule conflicts; we felt it was reasonable for us to fit in one camping trip and one exploratory hike very month. ...

December 10, 2023 · 1 min · 206 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Franconia, yet again.

The initial plan was to hike up to Greenleaf hut by the Old bridle trail and summit Mt. Lafayette at the crack of dawn. Sunrise on the ridge would have been terrific and the switchbacks on the way down would have been just perfect! However, Mountain weather forecast on Thursday indicated a cold front approaching on Friday night - temps dropping down to 3 F! We decided to shift this to a day hike instead. ...

September 24, 2022 · 2 min · 314 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Luray

Appa’s been mentioning Luray Caverns for a while now, so we decided to head there this weekend. He did pretty well despite his knees giving him a tough time. ‘Oh so worth it. Simbly beautiful’ - his words! While at it, we got our annual national parks pass and decided to do the scenic drive in Shenandoah. S had a terrific time hopping on top of the car and addressing the wilderness at almost every pull-over area. ...

September 11, 2022 · 1 min · 77 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Poconos Fam

This labor day weekend, the fam VRBOd a pretty nice woodsy property in the Poconos. It’s been years since some of us have met! The adults had some great time together just winding down while the kids literally brought the place down. The property had direct access to the Beltzville lake and almost everyone took to the water. A first of kinds…The kayaks weren’t the best maintained and a couple of us did take some falls in the water. Life jackets came in super handy! So thankful I learnt swimming early on. This weekend did bring out the outdoorsy flair from everyone. ...

September 4, 2022 · 1 min · 102 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Visapur-Lohagad hike

L made me promise on Saturday night that I wouldn’t cancel the hike next morning. She had every reason to be doubtful since we’d cancelled the Rajgad hike earlier today. After our K2S hike last night neither Ankur nor I were in a mood to venture out in the heat. What we didn’t know however was that she traded a sleepover with her friend for the Saturday morning hike to Rajgad. With us on the hills all last night and bad network reception things fell between the cracks. Amends were made and we chalked out a plan to head to Lohagad/Visapur on Sunday first thing in the morning. ...

April 3, 2022 · 2 min · 240 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Katraj to Sinhagad - Take 5

[caption id=“attachment_37938” align=“aligncenter” width=“1200”] Sinhagad at a distance. This picture is from on of my previous hikes.[/caption] Sharp at 0600 as we finally reach the road that winds up to Sinhagad, Ankur and I take a moment to savor the twilight chill. The last 7.5 hours has been nothing short of mesmerizing and rewarding. Just as it was twelve years ago when I did this hike with a much larger group. ...

April 2, 2022 · 1 min · 152 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]

Hauz Khas

‘Urbanization’ peeking in quite adjacent to the Hauz Khas fort. This beautiful reservoir and the surrounding wooded area sealed the deal! Spent quite some time exploring around here this evening. Can’t wait to introduce M&S to this place.

March 31, 2022 · 1 min · 38 words · map[email:ssphugo@srkn.anonaddy.com name:Srikanth Perinkulam nick:SSP]