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Summer ‘10 Activities – Climb, Camp, Hike and Cycle away!

vaibhavb — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:34:30 +0000

Alrite summer is just around the corner! Its the time we folks in Northwest look forward to! The entire misery of dark winters and rainy days is worth the gorgeous 3 months of summer we get around here!

I have been meaning to do a few outdoorsy things this summer, and wanted to started chalking my list here so that friends and family can join in, talk me in to and out of few things -

Rock-climbing & Bouldering
- A weekend bouldering trip to Squamish!
- Climbing as many single-pitch 5.8s as I can. May be pick up Exit-38 Wednesdays!
- Goal: Outer space (?) (July 2nd week or Aug 2nd week) – Outer space is a six pitch climb near Leavenworth, and it has been my goal since i started cragging a couple of years ago. Given my space and rock-climbing touch, it might not happen this year but still a worthy goal.
Mountaineering –
- Mt. Adams (June 19th?)
- Mt. Baker (June 26th)
- Mt. Shuskan (?)
- Goal: Lead a trip up Mt. Rainier (July 17th), may be two
- Goal: One ice-climb, may be Mt. Hood late in the season (Aug 1st week?)
Cycling
- Flying Wheels Summer Century! (June 12th)
- Goal: Lead a week-long trip along Oregon Coast (week of July 24th), in preparation to India biking adventure.
Motorcycling
- Now that i still have my SV650s for this season I would love to do some long riding and track days with it. I have already been eyeing some routes.
- Goal: Do at-least one long ride and one track day!
Backpacking
- Yosemite (?) (Late summer Aug(?))
- Need suggestions and friends to go with!
Hiking & Camping
- Granite Mountain
- Camp Muir
- Goal: At-least do one camping trip with friends
Try a new activity
- Rafting down Yakima river! (July 4th –?)
- Sea-kayaking or Sailing
- Goal: Learn to swim in open water

May be I should make a outdoor activities calendar. Making it public is a little itchy but hey its summer in the northwest!!

Backpacking south olympic coast

vaibhavb — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:08:00 +0000

Here is the Video account of the backpacking trip Maris, Myself and Jessica (Maris’ ex-housemate) did this Memorial day weekend.

Pictures of the trip are shared here.

The three day trip was a fabulous excursion in the Pacific Northwest’s flora & fauna, tide charts and yep the longest wilderness coastline!! All of these were unparalleled to my any relevant experiences before! I can go on and on about how i loved the coast but i think i’ll leave you guys to enjoy the video for now!

Backpacking with Mountain Lions, RattleSnakes and Maris!

vaibhavb — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:34:00 +0000

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originally uploaded by vbha.

Man! memorial weekend was awesome, we went backpacking on the lakeshore trail! More pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaibhavb/tags/backpackinglakechelansummer2007/ the two days of 17.5 was action packed with sightings of mountain lion and rattle snakes. We did make it in time for the ferry back from Stehekin to Fields landing and yep! we did manage to get lunch in Stehekin!. Oh ya !! we also figured out how people in stehekin get their cars!

Well! this isnt exactly detailed but more interesting details coming up, soon!!