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Continue reading →: Blackomb Peak via DOA Route, August 2025I was looking for an easy alpine rock objective somewhere not too far from Vancouver and Blackomb DOA Buttress route fit the bill. Shashi had also been wanting to tackle that route, so we decided to give it a go on a sunny August Saturday. Gondolas, Glaciers, and Grumbling We…
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Continue reading →: Armchair Traverse, BC, July 2025Hike upto Wedgemount Lake Campsite On a warm, late-July day, Neil, Suhrud and I walked up the forested slopes of Wedgemount Lake trail. We were grateful for the cool shade offered by the old-growth forest, though it wasn’t long before the bugs found us. The approach was steady and uneventful,…
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Continue reading →: Bryce Canyon, November 2015It was pitch black inside the tent. The air was freezing – it had to – it was 14 degrees below zero degree Celsius. Almost like two soldiers on guard duty through the night, my legs and hands were alternately getting cold and numb. As if, the total warmth inside…
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Continue reading →: Mt. Rainier via Emmons Glacier, July 2015The Sun had just peeped a little above the horizon, which was lit up faintly with a familiar reddish orange glow. The bright blob was aligned to the right of the center of the horizon, with the foreground still under the blanket of semidarkness. With each passing minute, we could…
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Continue reading →: Mt. Washington (NH), March 2015Before February of this year, I didn’t even know that there existed a certain Mt. Washington in New Hampshire and that the mountain is infamous as the “Home of the World’s Worst Weather” (although technically that claim is not true, the weather is bad enough! Imagine extremely fast wind speeds…
