PUERTO PRINCESA – Palawan is truly a hiker’s paradise. Yesterday, two weeks after I did the beautiful Mt. Beaufort (Hiking
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PUERTO PRINCESA – I have often lamented that I couldn’t find time to go hiking in Palawan, where the mountains
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BALI, INDONESIA – After the successful hike of two volcanoes – Gunung Batur in Bali (Hiking matters #400) and Gunung
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LOMBOK, INDONESIA – The summit assault is the most exciting part of every climb, because it is the moment when
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LOMBOK, INDONESIA – The day after we hiked Gunung Batur in Bali (see Hiking matters #400), we took the eastward
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BLUE MOUNTAINS, AUSTRALIA – We are now prepared to head back to Sydney after three amazing days in the Blue
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BLUE MOUNTAINS, AUSTRALIA – Here we are in the famed Blue Mountains of Australia – a World Heritage Site that
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Yesterday, I did the hike up Mt. Kosciusczko, at 2228 MASL the highest mountain in Australia and
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BLUE MOUNTAINS, AUSTRALIA – Continued from Hiking matters #395: At the summit of Jade Mountain, it was magical: Snowcapped peaks
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BLUE MOUNTAINS, AUSTRALIA – Continued from Hiking matters #394: The stars were heralds of good news, and the promise of
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