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El Camino Del Rey

Posted in news and links, travel and getaways, tagged , , , , , on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »

Not a walk I’d recommend to the faint of heart.
(Link via Andrew Sullivan)

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A weekend at Hoegee’s

Posted in personal, travel and getaways, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »

The reason there were no posts over the weekend is that I went solo-camping in the San Gabriel mountains just north of Pasadena.
The idea of spending a weekend alone in the wilderness first occurred to me during a hike I did in the San Gabriels with a couple of friends last summer. I was awestruck by the utter [...]

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A moment

Posted in personal, travel and getaways, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »

I was driving from Pasadena to Palo Alto on Tuesday when at one point the freeway started looking rather unfamiliar - too much traffic, too many exits. A short investigation revealed that as a result of staying on the wrong lane about twenty miles back, I was going north along the 99 rather than north-west along the [...]

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Magical Bhutan

Posted in imported-from-old-blog, travel and getaways on September 7, 2005 | 1 Comment »

I was staring out of my window at the endless morass of white and grey clouds when the pilot’s voice crackled on the microphone. “Ladies and Gentleman, in a short time we will be landing at Paro. Please fasten your seatbelts and put your seats upright. And if during the descent you see mountains closer [...]

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Hike to Mount Baldy

Posted in imported-from-old-blog, travel and getaways on July 26, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Massive Mount San Antonio- or Old Baldy if you prefer- is the grand climax of the 50-mile backbone of the San Gabriels. No other peak in the range rises to challenge its 10,064′ elevation. From its summit you look over a good part of Souther California- an expanse of mountain, desert and coastal lowland. On [...]

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The hike at Zion National Park

Posted in imported-from-old-blog, travel and getaways on October 29, 2004 | No Comments »

Yeah, yeah…we live by the desert, but when the Caltech Y is here, can fall colours be far way?
So we went on a hike to Zion National Park, Utah.
We leave Caltech around 2 pm, Friday. There are forty of us. Some veterans of several Y-hikes, others new, all excited! Zion is 400 miles away, in [...]

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