The Team Sherpa Blog

Destination: Above the California Smoke Clouds of June 2008How do you plan on doing that? Summit Mitchell PeakWhere? Jennie Lakes Wilderness - tucked in around Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Forest. Couple hours outside of Fresno, CA..How long? Easy. 2,000 foot ascent over 3.1 milesWanna see more pics? Click here Summertime 2008 was a mixed bag of spontaneous as well as planned adventures. The last weekend
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A slow start to a cold day. I was shaking the frost off the tent at around 7.00, which is my gentle way of letting Carmen know that it’s time to wake up. Conor and Lex tumbled out of their tent soon after, into the cold wet morning that hung around us like a damp towel. We rolled up our kit and it quickly became
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Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, an aristocrat and a physicist from Geneva Switzerland was interested in geology and was a keen alpine traveler in the late 17 hundreds. He had been looking through his scope towards the highest peaks in the Alps and made calculations that a huge white dome and a mountain massive above a valley of Chamouny would have to be the highest
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We’ve just got back from a scuba diving, sea kayaking and mountain walking trip in Oman. This destination is still relatively new on tourist trail so information for planning trips can be difficult. Here is a synopsis of some of the useful information we found!RoadsDriving in Oman is hairy to put it mildly. If you want an easy time - pay for a vehicle with
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Date: Sometime in JulySummary: The Unraveling of a Year-long PlanLocation: Close to Paradise Nearly 4 months have passed since blogging about the last adventure. Hiking the Salkantay Trek into Machu Picchu was simply amazing. Since then I have been able to pursue more great adventures across California and into Arizona. Perhaps the most fitting story from the past few months to share after such a protracted absence is of
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