Poz
Jeff Joined: August 1st 2005
Logged in: January 6th 2012
Logged in: January 6th 2012
HIGHLIGHTS (but be sure to still scroll down below and visit the next few pages):
Trekking/Climbing:
-- Parque Nacional Los Glaciares (Argentina)
-- The Argentine Lake District! (Argentina)
-- Condoriri and Huayna Potosi (Bolivia)
-- Trekking in the Cordillera Blanca: Quilcayhuanca to Cojup (Peru)
Jungle:
-- Sumatra (Indonesia)
-- Coast to Highlands Overland (Part 2) (Borneo)
-- Canoeing the Reserva Nacional Pacaya-Samiria (Peru)
Sea:
-- Diving Pulau Sipadan (Malaysia)
-- Two Weeks in the Galapagos (Ecuador)
Travel Blog Posts
Huascaran
Pictures of our short hike up to Laguna 69 in Parque Nacional Huascaran. Great views of Huascaran (the world's highest tropical mountain) with a finale of the turquoise blue lake of Laguna 69!... read more
First Night's Camp
Some pictures of our 5-day trek up the glaciated valley of Quebrada Quilcayhuanca, up over a pass, and down the valley of Cojup. So many glaciers...... read more
The Village of Tuni (14,600 feet)
Jen and I did a 5-day trek in the Bolivian Cordillera Real between the Condoriri and Huayna Potosi base camps. The last day I woke up at midnight and climbed the heavily-glaciated Huayna Potosi (19,974 feet) with a guide.... read more
Copacabana
Jen and I spent 3 days trekking around Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca--quite a beautiful island. ... read more
Amazonian Sunset
The Reserva Nacional Pacaya-Samiria of northern Peru is the largest seasonally-flooded lowland rainforest of the Amazon Basin. It is a massive wilderness area with large populations of rare wildlife. Our goal was to reach the reserve and view some wildlife from a canoe. Just getting there was an interesting trip in itself. To reach the reserve, we started our Amazon journey at the Amazon port town of Yurimaguas--after a collectivo ride down from Tarapoto. It was quite eventful; we ran out of gas, skirted steep rainforest cliffs, and hit a mototaxi during a rainstorm. In Yurimaguas, we arranged for a cargo boat to take us downriver to the small village of Lagunas, where we hoped to find dugout canoes and guides for visiting the Pacaya-Samiria Reserve. The boat carried cattle on the lower deck and had ... read more
Condor Above the Cañon del Colca
Pictures from my trek down to the bottom of one of the deepest canyons in the world. Then, I continued up the other side and over a 5100 meter (16700 feet) pass.... read more
