I stumbled off my twelve hour international fight exhausted. After an easy time going through passport control thanks to new passport kiosks that make your entry into a foreign country much less of a hassle I was headed down the elevator and pass a broad slab of cement with a warm welcome to the United …
The winds howled all night outside our little cabin on Mt Baldy. Not afraid of any wind ( or not willing to reschedule our summit, anyways) we woke up about seven and were ready to tackle the mountain, all 10,300 feet of her. It would mean hiking up over 4,000 feet of altitude gain with …
I’m sitting in a Starbucks Airport in Honolulu sipping a Cappuccino and waiting for that Hawaiian sun to rise. It’s December 31st, 2015 and this was how I began my New Year’s Eve morning. A New Year’s Eve that ended with me sleeping on the floor of the Sydney Airport one flight …
The winds were howling something awful as we drove the twisting turning roads up to Mt Baldy Village. The forecast was calling for gusts of 65 mph for that night and the following day! Any other mountaineers would probably have changed the game plan for the day but we already had a cabin reserved at Mt Baldy Lodge …