Swampy Lake Hiking Trails, Bend, Oregon

Bend, Oregon offers an avid outdoors person an amazing amount of wilderness to explore, weather by bike, foot, snowmoble or 4 wheeling. In my case it's either of foot or bike. This particular adventure was on foot to the Swampy Lakes area of Bend. To get there you take Cascade Hwy towards Mt. Bachalor. It's about a 20 min drive to the Swampy Lake Sno - Park. Pull into the car park and head to the trail head. In the Winter Swampy Lakes is used for Cross country skiing and summer works great for a long hike or bike. Swampy Lakes does ...

Redwood National Park and Coast

If you have not had a chance to go to the Redwood National park and Coast this should be on your to do travel list. The Redwoods are the tallest known trees in the world with some recorded heights of over 360 feet. The Redwoods grow only in a narrow strip of land along the Pacific coast and south western Oregon. Redwoods survive to be over 2,000 years old and were here in the age of the Dinosaurs. These days only 40,000 acres of rainforest are left. The Redwoods have been cut in half by overlogging and the Goldrush. If you are ...

Looking for Water in the Desert

Have you ever been to the desert, if so then you will know that water is everything. Carry enough water for a fulls day's hike can be challenging at best and since you'll need at least a gallon a day in the warm months, more at the height of summer, planning a backpacking trip in the desert revolves around the quantity of water that you can reasonably carry and the likely hood of finding additional sources along your route. Don't count on water being available just because the map shows a spring. You can probably trust people who have actually been there - ...

Swampy Lake Hiking Trails, Bend, Oregon

Bend, Oregon offers an avid outdoors person an amazing amount of wilderness to explore, weather by bike, foot, snowmoble or 4 wheeling. In my case it’s either of foot or bike. This particular adventure was on foot to the Swampy Lakes area of Bend. To get there you take Cascade Hwy towards Mt. Bachalor. It’s about a 20 min drive to the Swampy Lake Sno - Park. Pull into the car park and... [Read more]

Redwood National Park and Coast

Looking for Water in the Desert

Have you ever been to the desert, if so then you will know that water is everything. Carry enough water for a fulls day’s hike can be challenging at best and since you’ll need at least a gallon a day in the warm months, more at the height of summer, planning a backpacking trip in the desert revolves around the quantity of water that you can reasonably carry and the likely hood of finding... [Read more]

Women Himalaya Mountaineers

Women Himalayan climbers Sushmita Maskey and Usha Bistthey and their climbing team made history by becoming the first all-women’s team from Nepal to summit Mt Everest, the highest mountain in the world. On Sundaythey were celebrated as the 99th International Women’s Day, the 10 Nepali women climbers have broken new ground by announcing they would establish a national mountaineering... [Read more]

Trekking in Leh, Himayala, India

Leh is situated between the Tibetan Platetu and the Indus Valley in the province of Ladakh in the region called Jammu and Kashmir. Rising from the valley floor to 11,000ft, the city of Leh is breathtaking has well as stark in contrast almost looking like a moon landscape, until you look out to the high Karakorum range of the Himalayas heading towards China. Leh is called little Tibet and as you... [Read more]