We recently visited Death Valley. We spent the first day climbing up and sleeping on the summit of Telescope Peak at 11,000 ft (3,300 m) in 40° F ( 4° C) 🥶 temperature; and then in the morning we hiked back down and drove to the lowest spot in the US (right behind me inContinue reading “How we experienced two extreme temperatures in the same day in Death Valley and Telescope Peak”
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Climbing Mt. Adams in one day
It can be done in one day but it’s more comfortable to do it in two. But if you plan on two days then you end up carrying more weight which slows you down and justifies doing it in two days. So it’s a cyclical argument. We decided to summit Mt Adams in one day. ConservativeContinue reading “Climbing Mt. Adams in one day”
Rappelling up a rope
I learnt how to go back up on a rope when rappelling yesterday
On top of Mt. Kilimanjaro
We took a longer, circuitous, beautiful path around Kilimanjaro to get to the top. It was colder than we had planned for and the lack of sleep compounded the effort needed. The endless strong wind that ran across the continent became very overbearing after a few hours. But we were there and we saw theContinue reading “On top of Mt. Kilimanjaro”
