Mar 25
(Part 3 of the Bhutan Trek Series)Go back to Part 2…. Continuing Up the Paro Valley After a wet, snowy first day trekking up the Paro Valley—and an even colder night sleeping in the tent—we woke to a simple but welcome breakfast prepared over a campfire at the stone hut in Thang Thanka. The snow …
Mar 16
(Part 2 of the Bhutan Trek Series from our trip in March 2019)For Part 1, see the post Turning 50 in the Himalayas: Our Trekking Adventure in Bhutan first The next morning, we left the comfort of Hotel Olathang behind and set out for the real adventure. For the next week we would be trekking …
Mar 09
Intro The plane banked sharply between two mountains as we descended toward the tiny airport in Paro, Bhutan. For a moment it felt like the wing might scrape the cliffs. That’s when it really hit us. We were about to begin an 11-day trekking adventure into the Himalayas. Bhutan had been on our bucket list …
Jun 13
I heard Denise’s watch alarm go off around 6am and I laid there until about 6:30am. We had shared the bunk room with another couple who slept on the bottom of the bunk and we were on top. They were a bit ricketty, so I was a bit self-conscious about moving around through the night, …
Jun 10
As I mentioned in my Haute Route Day 11 post, my mattress had a large crater in the middle of it and I spent most of the night sleeping curled around the edge of it. By the way, Paul from the UK informed me later that this was easily resolved by moving the boards closer …
Jun 05
We headed out of the Schwarzhorn Hotel after a relatively mediocre breakfast. It was an immediate grunt uphill as we left the building and switchbacked our way towards the Oberstafel . We started out at around 6500′ elevation and would peak at just short of 10,000′ in less than 4 miles. We were had a …
May 24
We enjoyed a nice breakfast at the Hotel Europe around 7:30 AM then packed up and started on our walk. We saw the older Brit Posse congregating at the supermarche(grocery store) as we headed to the trailhead. It was nice to know we would not have to pass them later and get the dirty looks …
