Mt Baker with Friends
Joined Darrin, Lisa and Jeff for a 4 day ice-climb of Mt Baker’s North Ridge. Had a wonderful time and reached the summit.
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Mt Shasta with Friends
A quick trip up the I5 to climb Mt Shasta with Darrin and Lisa. The weather was not kind to us and we did not even attempt the summit. Instead we did a little skills training. Great weekend nonetheless.
Mt. Kilimanjaro – 20-31 January 2012
In 2003 Stephen and I went to Kilimanjaro. Although I did enjoy the hiking I never made it to the summit then. Naturally Stephen did. Ever since then I’ve had this little niggling in the back of my mind –…
Mt Kosciuszko
On Friday November 18 we boarded a plane to Melbourne where we landed on Sunday November 20th. We stayed 2 nights with our friends Patty and Jono and their 3 daughters in Aspendale. Very nice to catch up! Two days…
Overnighting at Brussels Airport
Just arrived at my hotel at Brussels airport – this was the easiest option as I’m starting my trip home tomorrow morning. Just checked Stephen’s progress on Denali where the weather has been a spoil-sport for a while now. No…
Shasta Climb with Fil
Fil and I went to Shasta for the weekend. Drove up on Friday, got up early on Saturday to hike from the carpark to camp. Up at 2:00am on Sunday for our summit attempt. Check-out the photos to see if…
Shasta Weekend Apr 28-30
We went to Shasta for the weekend; left on Friday afternoon and returned on Sunday afternoon. Guess who did all the driving!! Saturday morning I dropped Stephen of at the trailhead, where he set off for a day-hike (good training…
Final preparations for our trips.
As you know by now – if you’ve been keeping an eye on this – Stephen is leaving for Antartica soon: he’s flying out on Sat Nov 19th. At the moment he’s making sure that all his gear is in…
Vinson Massif – New Expedition Company
Hit a slight hiccup in the expedition preparations. Adventure Consultants, the company I was planning to go with, cancelled the expedition I was scheduled on. A little annoying. But some last minute digging around and I found another expedition company.…
Vinson Massif – Equipment Update
It is all about the gear. Finally decided on a sleeping bag. Details of the bag can be found here. The down pants arrived today, yipee. Caroline thinks I look pretty silly walking around in my down pants. So now…
Aconcagua
Left the mountain at 6:00pm last night for the drive back to civilization. The climb was great. Quite bit easier than I thought it would be. Even through I was wasted by the time we got off the summit and…
Success on Aconcagua!! 22,841ft/6,962m
Hi all, It’s Monday morning and Stephen just rang to say that he and his climbing friend Richard summited Aconcagua successfully! Stephen will fill you in on the details later. He’s back in Plaza de Mulas basecamp at the moment…
Mt Rainier, Washington (14,410 ft)
Thought I’d better send a quick post to let you all know that I was successful in my summit of Mt Rainier! I set off at 10:30am Monday from the car-park arriving at Camp Muir around 3:00 pm. After a…