Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Sun May 26, 2019

A wonderful (yet hot) day walking around the hanging valleys above Embd

A really great day walking from Zermatt to the Europabruecke

Wandering around the Mattertal

Mountain scooters!

Fantastic day walking off the beaten path

A lighter day, walking around the vineyards of Sierre.

A break from the weather and injury, bussing around to Zinal.

Toughest day yet ends painfully for me.

A fanstatic day in the high Alps under the glaciers

We skip the high pass and opt for a spa day.

A drizzly hike to Cabane Louvie, at first not fun then very enjoyable.

Definitely a rest day: a half day up to St Bernard Pass—more interesting than we expected!—then lazing around.

Another nearly-as-tough day up and down into Champex-Lac, then Orsières.

Today’s hike is over the border into Switzerland and the Col de Foclaz... 20.5km, with 1030m ascent and 830m decent.

A fairly hardcore and incredibly scenic 12km walk in the mountains just north of Chamonix, France.

A weekend getaway to Coorg, west of Bangalore in the lush green Western Ghats

Second part of the day in Hampi

A fantastic day seeing the incredible rock city of Hampi in northwest Karnakata, India

Today was enjoyable and a bit random: Julian are I were invited to a wedding function! Of course, how could I say no?

After a long flights, some India. And Julian.

A few days of exploring Eastern Washington, hiking and peering at spring wildflowers

Another visit, with a mezcal tour, caves, and food of course

Last day. A pleasant start to a relaxed and hot day, finishing the GR20 in Conca.

A long and hot day; I cut it short when I see a spectacular mountain ridge.

A bright shiny day scares the grumpies away! Except for the tedious ridgeline, a good long day.

An early start, a soggy ending, a sad refuge

Back on the GR20 today--a half day from Vizzanova on the sourthern section of the GR20.

Four days of relaxation at a villa by the sea, and a couple of road trips to the rugged northwest coast of Corsica and a visit to Bonifacio.

I wanted a nice relaxing day, so I pushed it hard and combined two day's walking into one.

The tough day wasn't quite all that, and we enjoyed walking along the ridgeline in perfectly fine weather and the fantastic views.

Another fine day along the GR20 -- and the 'easest day' so far.

A much longer day than expected. More 'moderate" than "easy"

A wonderful and exhausting day up and over the high point of the GR20, through snow and scree, and a wonderful refuge at the end.

Sun came out! A great hike over to the Haut Asco ski area.

A hard half day walk to the Refuge

A very long transition day

A wonderfully sunny day for getting out and about, with a visit to Kew Gardens.

Off to London on the way to Corsica

A big charismatic megafauna day ends up meh, and onto Brunei.

A moderate hike in the morning. Afternoon flight to Sandakar.

A lazy day, yet full of things to do: a walk up a river to a waterfall, a walk along the treetops high above the ground. And butterflies.

A fun day of adventure: boat rides and cave tours and swimming in the clear water.

We're ready for adventure. Today is a visit to Deer Cave, which has the largest cave room in the world.

Finally, we arrive at Mulu National Park, and get on with the adventuring!

We head off past the typhoon to Kota Kinabalu, then onwards to wonderful Mulu National Park on the north of the island of Borneo.

A complicated series of moves from Los Angeles to Manila

Today, our last real full day in Patagonia, is a biggie: we're doing a guided 4km hike on top of Perito Moreno Glacier. It was really unexpectedly excellent, and not just pretty good. The weather was clear and warm, the scenery great, and most of all walking on top of the glacier was unlike any place I'd been before.

A travel day from El Chaltén back to El Calafate. Walking in the morning, cake and coffee, bus ride, dinnner.

Another great hike today--this time it was from our B&B to Lago Torre, an easy 18km out-and-back to the lake at the foot of Torre Glacier, with the spire of Cerro Torre rising behind. The weather was sunny and warm, the wind subsided, and the trail was fast and flat--and uncrowded!

A wonderful day with a long hike to the Laguna de Los Tres, just below the spectacular Monte Fitz Roy.

A long long day of bussing from Chile to Argentina.

A zero Sunday in Puerto Natales

We're still undecided--do we go see the Torres del Paine or not?

Today we decide not to hike up the French Valley with the crowds, but just to have a leisurely day walking the 14km/9 miles to our cabin at Refugio Curenos.

Today was the start of some easy days--an 11km stroll down to Paine Grande was on the agenda, and the weather held. It was also the first section of the W circuit, which meant people people people, irritating and entertaining.

A fantastic and hard 13 mile day up and over Paso John Gardner to Refugio Grey

Today we lazily get up and get out and hike the eight miles through the cold snow pellets up to Camping Los Perros.

First day in Torres del Paine, a hot 19 mile walk from Torres Central to Refugio Dickson

Hello, Patagonia. We sleep in and bus-bus-shuttle to Torres del Paine. It's strongly different than the last time, so many more people, it's not any secret anymore.

Long travel days from San Diego to Punta Arenas to start a couple of weeks of travel around the end of the world.

3 days on Oahu

A comprehensive table of my PCT hiking

Touring around Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Yet another transit day, this time to Almaty, Kazakhstan.

A transit through Abu Dhabi.

We're off; via San Francisco and Abu Dhabi to Almaty, a unlikely tripling of cities.