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  • Virginia Triple Crown (June 2025)
    • Virginia Triple Crown: Day 1
    • Virginia Triple Crown: Day 2
    • Virginia Triple Crown: Day 3
  • Ecuador (January 2025)
    • Eager to Experience Ecuador
    • Day 1-3: Exploring and Acclimating
    • Day 4: Outlaws
    • Day 5-6: Rumiñahui & Prep Hike to 5,000m
    • Day 7-8: Active Rest and Final Preps
    • Day 9: Cotopaxi Summit Success!
    • Day 10-11: Rest then on to Chimborazo
    • Day 12: Chimborazo Attempted & Epilogue
  • Iceland (August 2024)
    • Iceland: The Land of Fire and Ice
    • Laugavegur Trail: Day 1
    • Laugavegur Trail: Day 2
    • Laugavegur Trail: Day 3
    • Fimmvörðuháls Trail: Part 1
    • Fimmvörðuháls Trail: Part 2 (w/ Epilogue)
    • Reykjavík and Beyond
  • Bolivia (January 2023)
    • New Year… New Adventure
    • Exploring La Paz
    • Technical Training
    • Ambitious Attempt
    • Not Dying on Death Road
  • Mont Blanc (September 2022)
    • Chamonix… Gateway to Mont Blanc
    • France vs. Italy
    • Into “Thinnish” Air
    • Nail Biter in the Clouds
  • Kilimanjaro (February 2022)
    • Kilimanjaro: Time to Train
    • Kili Update… T-minus 30 days
    • Gear Testing for Kili
    • Arusha Arrival… Final Preps
    • Day 1: Time to Climb!
    • Day 2: Is this “Camping” or “Glamping?”
    • Day 3-4: Rugged Beauty
    • Day 5: Porter Power
    • Day 6: It’s Starting to get Real!
    • Day 7 (part 1): “Embrace the Suck”
    • Day 7 (part 2): The Grinding Descent
    • Safari Trifecta (part 1)
    • Safari Trifecta (part 2): The Serengeti
    • Epilogue: Beautiful Tanzania
  • Building a Home (2021-2022)
    • An Adventure of Another Kind
    • Journey to an Approved Permit
    • In the Beginning…
    • Evolution of a Road
    • Transformation
    • Taking Shape…
    • On the Rise… Going Vertical
    • “Juice,” Water, and a Warm Blanket
    • Beginning the End Phase
    • Let’s Go Inside…
    • Adding Character
    • The Finish Line
  • Mt. Shasta (July 2019)
    • Planning and Prep for Shasta Summit
    • Mystics and the Mountain
    • Grueling Climb… Summit Success!
    • Campground Claimants and Curmudgeons
  • Sisters in Sedona (April 2019)
    • Celebrating in Sedona
    • Southwest Sojourn
    • Time Dimensions & Eons of Erosion
    • Vortex, Schmortex!
    • Pink Jeeps and Balloons… A Barbie Birthday?
  • Exploring Oregon (July 2018)
    • Giro d’Oregon (Grand Tour of Oregon)
    • Sasquatch Sightings
    • Sherpa Pacin’ in Oregon
    • Rafting on the Rogue
    • Wine and Coastal Sunshine
  • Everest Base Camp Trek (April 2018)
    • Who’s Crazy Idea Was This?!…
    • Gearin’ Up!
    • Peak Condition (pun intended)… we hope!
    • No rest for the weary in Dubai!
    • Day 1: Kuh,ka,ka,ka,ka,ka,ka Kathmandu!!
    • Day 2: Hurry up and wait… and wait, and wait, and wait.
    • Day 3: The climb begins!
    • Day 4: An appreciation of the Sherpa people
    • Day 5: “Sherpa Pace”
    • Day 6: Wow!!!
    • Day 7: Himalayan Highway and Animal Drama
    • Day 8/9: Acclimatization Hike / Final Stop Before EBC
    • Day 10: We Made It!!
    • Day 11: Sunrise over Everest!
    • Day 12 & 13: Going Up to Go Down
    • Day 14: End of the Line
    • Epilogue
    • Base Camp vs. Summit Bid
    • Bathrooms… the “good” and not so pleasant!
  • Miscellaneous Adventures
    • Rejected at the Border
    • Celestial Choreography
Destination: Adventure

Everest Base Camp Trek (April 2018)

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  • Virginia Triple Crown (June 2025)
    • Virginia Triple Crown: Day 1
    • Virginia Triple Crown: Day 2
    • Virginia Triple Crown: Day 3
  • Ecuador (January 2025)
    • Eager to Experience Ecuador
    • Day 1-3: Exploring and Acclimating
    • Day 4: Outlaws
    • Day 5-6: Rumiñahui & Prep Hike to 5,000m
    • Day 7-8: Active Rest and Final Preps
    • Day 9: Cotopaxi Summit Success!
    • Day 10-11: Rest then on to Chimborazo
    • Day 12: Chimborazo Attempted & Epilogue
  • Iceland (August 2024)
    • Iceland: The Land of Fire and Ice
    • Laugavegur Trail: Day 1
    • Laugavegur Trail: Day 2
    • Laugavegur Trail: Day 3
    • Fimmvörðuháls Trail: Part 1
    • Fimmvörðuháls Trail: Part 2 (w/ Epilogue)
    • Reykjavík and Beyond
  • Bolivia (January 2023)
    • New Year… New Adventure
    • Exploring La Paz
    • Technical Training
    • Ambitious Attempt
    • Not Dying on Death Road
  • Mont Blanc (September 2022)
    • Chamonix… Gateway to Mont Blanc
    • France vs. Italy
    • Into “Thinnish” Air
    • Nail Biter in the Clouds
  • Kilimanjaro (February 2022)
    • Kilimanjaro: Time to Train
    • Kili Update… T-minus 30 days
    • Gear Testing for Kili
    • Arusha Arrival… Final Preps
    • Day 1: Time to Climb!
    • Day 2: Is this “Camping” or “Glamping?”
    • Day 3-4: Rugged Beauty
    • Day 5: Porter Power
    • Day 6: It’s Starting to get Real!
    • Day 7 (part 1): “Embrace the Suck”
    • Day 7 (part 2): The Grinding Descent
    • Safari Trifecta (part 1)
    • Safari Trifecta (part 2): The Serengeti
    • Epilogue: Beautiful Tanzania
  • Building a Home (2021-2022)
    • An Adventure of Another Kind
    • Journey to an Approved Permit
    • In the Beginning…
    • Evolution of a Road
    • Transformation
    • Taking Shape…
    • On the Rise… Going Vertical
    • “Juice,” Water, and a Warm Blanket
    • Beginning the End Phase
    • Let’s Go Inside…
    • Adding Character
    • The Finish Line
  • Mt. Shasta (July 2019)
    • Planning and Prep for Shasta Summit
    • Mystics and the Mountain
    • Grueling Climb… Summit Success!
    • Campground Claimants and Curmudgeons
  • Sisters in Sedona (April 2019)
    • Celebrating in Sedona
    • Southwest Sojourn
    • Time Dimensions & Eons of Erosion
    • Vortex, Schmortex!
    • Pink Jeeps and Balloons… A Barbie Birthday?
  • Exploring Oregon (July 2018)
    • Giro d’Oregon (Grand Tour of Oregon)
    • Sasquatch Sightings
    • Sherpa Pacin’ in Oregon
    • Rafting on the Rogue
    • Wine and Coastal Sunshine
  • Everest Base Camp Trek (April 2018)
    • Who’s Crazy Idea Was This?!…
    • Gearin’ Up!
    • Peak Condition (pun intended)… we hope!
    • No rest for the weary in Dubai!
    • Day 1: Kuh,ka,ka,ka,ka,ka,ka Kathmandu!!
    • Day 2: Hurry up and wait… and wait, and wait, and wait.
    • Day 3: The climb begins!
    • Day 4: An appreciation of the Sherpa people
    • Day 5: “Sherpa Pace”
    • Day 6: Wow!!!
    • Day 7: Himalayan Highway and Animal Drama
    • Day 8/9: Acclimatization Hike / Final Stop Before EBC
    • Day 10: We Made It!!
    • Day 11: Sunrise over Everest!
    • Day 12 & 13: Going Up to Go Down
    • Day 14: End of the Line
    • Epilogue
    • Base Camp vs. Summit Bid
    • Bathrooms… the “good” and not so pleasant!
  • Miscellaneous Adventures
    • Rejected at the Border
    • Celestial Choreography
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