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  • Full-value Adventure on Runner Peak

    Full-value Adventure on Runner Peak

    If you turn your gaze toward the North Shore mountains while driving on Highway 1, you’ll notice a series of peaks forming the Fannin range of mountains behind Mt. Seymour ski resort. The first…

  • Frenchman Coulee, April 2026

    Frenchman Coulee, April 2026

    If climbing basalt columns in a desert landscape shaped by volcanic fire and ice-age floods is your idea of a long weekend spent well, then Frenchman Coulee in Central Washington would not disappoint. I…

  • Blackcomb Peak via DOA Route, August 2025

    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

  • Armchair Traverse, BC, July 2025

    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.

  • Bryce Canyon, November 2015

    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,…

  • Mt. Rainier via Emmons Glacier, July 2015

    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…

  • Mt. Washington (NH), March 2015

    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…

  • Tungnath, Chandrashila, Deoria Tal Winter Hike

    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…

  • Lake Tahoe and Emerald Bay, November 2014

    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…