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Elevation Gain: 1752m Distance: 27.97kmTotal Time: 9 hours 5 minutesDate: January 30th, 2022 Cerro El Faldeo is an 1803m peak located alongside the highway leading up to El Chalten. I discovered it while looking at a map of the area trying to find something with a different view from the main trails. I could notContinue reading “Cerro El Faldeo”

Elevation Gain: 1,212mDistance: 22.02kmTotal Time: 5 hours 22 minutesDate: January 23rd, 2022 With a successful day up Cerro Madsen behind us, Jacob and I were looking for something easy for a rest day. After some searching we landed on one of the more popular hikes in the area called Loma del Pliegue Tumbado. It’s aContinue reading “Loma del Pliegue Tumbado”

Elevation Gain: 696m Distance: 7.86kmTotal Time: 3 hours 44 minutesDate: January 9th, 2022 Cerro Bonete is a 5052m peak located a few km west of Aconcagua’s Plaza de Mulas base camp. It’s frequently used as an acclimatization hike for climbing parties and expeditions during their stay in Plaza de Mulas. From base camp it’s ~8kmContinue reading “Cerro Bonete”

Elevation Gain: 1819m Distance: 31.85kmTotal Time: 17 hours 21 minutesDate: January 26th, 2022 Mojon Rojo is another one of those minor summits around the Fitz Roy massif that presents a fun mountaineering challenge without the big wall climbing prevalent in the area. It gets its name from the red/rusty colour that separates itself from theContinue reading “Mojon Rojo”

Elevation Gain: 6189mDistance: 94.3km Total Time: 16 daysDate: January 2nd – January 17th, 2022 In early October I was starting to organize a long since planned sabbatical from work. I’d be officially away for 3 and a half months to take time to travel and decompress after 2 years of working through the pandemic. MyContinue reading “Aconcagua”

Elevation Gain: 1510m Distance: 27.8kmTotal Time: 11 hours 18 minutesDate: January 20th, 2022 Cerro Madsen is an 1806m peak near the Fitz Roy massif in Patagonia. It’s not a particularly notable objective when compared to the world-class alpine climbing objectives that rule the area. But… I’m not a world class Alpinist, nor do I haveContinue reading “Cerro Madsen”

Elevation Gain: 217m Distance: 10.53kmTotal Time: 1 hour 21 minutesDate: January 1st, 2022 I arrived in Mendoza, Argentina on the New Years Eve and had a few days to spend before the start of my Aconcagua trip. Not wanting to miss an opportunity to check out the city, I had a look around on theContinue reading “Cerro de La Gloria”

Elevation Gain: 20mDistance: 1.05kmTotal Time: 13 minutesDate: December 20th, 2021 Uekahuna is the summit point of the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. It’s a rather interesting place, because it’s part of an active volcano. This activity actually resulted in the previous summit point collapsing into the caldera in a 2018 eruption. Undoubtedly,Continue reading “Uekahuna – 2021”

Elevation Gain: 63mDistance: 1.46kmTotal Time: 20 minutesDate: December 20th, 2021 Pu’u Pua’i is a recent, geologically speaking, cinder cone formation that’s situated between two massive craters in the Volcano National Park. From a prominence perspective, it barely boasts 40m, but it’s a named objective so might as well do it. My mom and I happenedContinue reading “Pu’u Pua’i”

Elevation Gain: 1,516mDistance: 21.06kmTotal Time: 7 hours 12 minutesDate: December 19th, 2021 Mauna Kea is a volcano many know of because it’s the tallest mountain in the Hawaiian island chain and is the staging ground for a number of telescopes/observation platforms. Through some ridiculous (in my opinion) technicalities, it’s also the tallest mountain in theContinue reading “Mauna Kea”