August 2010
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the...
The lesson of today’s hike was: we know how to do wrong really right! This climb was with our friends Charlie, Michael and Jess (whose birthday it also happened to be). This was the first hike I had done without guides since a mountain climbing day in Wales a couple of years back. We were headed to Bear Mountain, on the west banks of the Hudson River containing trails that are part of the...
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July 2010
6 posts
Raccoon Brook Hike: our first foray!
Hello dears, As many of you know, we left our beloved borough of Brooklyn at six-thirty Sunday morning to embark on our first proper hike (apparently, as we had been taunted by one of our fellow hikers, “you won’t find any hills like this in Brooklyn!”). Though I’m still not sure exactly where Harriman Park was (NY? NJ?), I can fairly say that the day was right out of a...
...and off we go
bags are packed - pre 6am wakeup, and off we head for our first little trip up something tall!
Mount Kilimanjaro: 25 fun facts
1. Johannes Rebmann, a German missionary, is credited with discovering Mount Kilimanjaro in 1848. He explored the lower slopes and sent the Royal Geo- graphical Society his findings, including a description of a snow-capped summit. Experts at the time doubted the possibility of a snow-capped mountain located near the equator.
2. The first successful summit occurred in 1889. It took took six...
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The Plan!
So, just prior to the year that Africa gets its first World Cup, James has upped sticks and moved to the United States, and what better way to spread the greatness of GAFFER and raise awareness than by doing something equally epic. In this spirit, James and his partner in crime, Kelly, shall be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro! Not only is it pretty tall (well, only the fourth biggest mountain in the...