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Blackcomb Peak via DOA Route, August 2025
A trip report of the Blackcomb Peak climb via DOA route near Whistler, BC – an alpine rock climb involving Class 4 scrambling and a 5.7 final pitch
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Armchair Traverse, BC, July 2025
A trip report of the Armchair Traverse in BC — a sustained Class 3/4 alpine scramble connecting Mount Cook and Mount Weart above Wedgemount Lake near Whistler.
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Bryce Canyon, November 2015
It 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,…
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Mt. Rainier via Emmons Glacier, July 2015
The 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…
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Mt. Washington (NH), March 2015
Before 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…
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Tungnath, Chandrashila, Deoria Tal Winter Hike
I would never have thought of climbing a Himalayan peak, however small, in the coldest month of the Indian winter. And yet, here I was. I would never have thought it possible that I…
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Lake Tahoe and Emerald Bay, November 2014
A gust of wind, followed by few minutes of quietude, another gust of wind. Feet making crisp steps in the snow. Pine cones spread over the trail, may be because they were about to…
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Weekend Climbing in Pensylvania
Destination: High Rocks State Park ( Ralph Stover State Park) Location: 150 Tory Rd, Bucks County Pennsylvinia Time of the Year: Summer 2014 Summer was the perfect time to move from Indiana to New…
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Sport Climbing at Shelf Road, Colorado, March 2014
Have you ever climbed rocks when flakes of snow are flying around you? Have you ever looked down upon a valley from the top of a cliff, after climbing 80 feet up on it?…
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