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Oct 15, 2018

Kili Summit: Uhuru Peak

As if the last few days weren’t enough individually or in combination, the final push to the summit would prove more arduous than I could...

Oct 10, 2018

Kili: 3,950 - 4,000 meters

I consider this to be the most physically and mentally exhausting day of the trip. The fabled Barranco Wall greeted us as we were one of...

Oct 4, 2018

Kili: 3,480 - 4,600 - 3,950 meters

The landscape undergoes another amazing change – it becomes otherworldly. Picture this – we are hiking on greyish sand on a path that...

Oct 1, 2018

Kili: 3,000-3,840 meters

I have never been woken up so softly as on this mountain. “Good morning ladies” we would hear accompanied by the light scratching of our...

Sep 26, 2018

Kili: 1,800-3,000 meters

When we arrived at the gate, we had some time to wait as our group got registered for the hike and we awaited our turn to begin. The...

Sep 20, 2018

Kili: 289 meters

On the plane into Tanzania, we soared over the snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro! Greeted in the sky with our first glimpse of this...

Sep 14, 2018

Kili: Prep

Hiking a mountain of this measure along the seven-day Machame route is a task that requires both proper equipment and understanding....

Sep 11, 2018

Mount Ida Summit

Arriving at the far end of Rocky Mountain at 4:30 a.m. was kind of crazy – traversing the all too familiar landscape in the pitch black...

Sep 11, 2017

Flat Top Mountain

Reaching the Peak of Flat Top Mountain in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park was, admittedly, not what I had set out to do that day....