Early March temperatures shot up, trees started blooming, T-shirts were worn and I was already longing for the forgotten beauty of winter. But as it is often the case the tickling of spring was just a tease. Winter came back in full force mid March and stayed with us a few mor...

For the past couple of years, I had fallen out of love with hiking. Life had gotten busier, there was always something else to do, or I never had enough free time to dedicate to it. But over the summer, after months of California's shelter in place order, it ended up being the...

Our plans to hike in the heart of the Italian Dolomites this summer got crushed my the Covid-19 pandemic, we thought to ourselves that it’d be a great time to discover the north in our own country instead. We’d never been further than the middle of Sweden before so a trip to t...

Continuing the exploration of the Dutch Wadden islands. This time, we chose Ameland and went there for a cycling trip on the long weekend of Kingsday.

Hay Diaries Singapore

September 23, 2017.

“We’re going to spend a romantic weekend in a swamp.” That’s how I told friends we planned to spend the long Easter weekend. Of course, it was probably never going to be romantic, and Congaree isn’t technically a swamp, it’s a floodplain. The land floods throughout the year, b...

Even though it hadn't been that long since I solo climbed Helens, when Jillian asked if I'd be interested to join her and a group of friends to climb it again, I immediately bought my climbing permit online!The goal was to start at 4:30am, but it turns out it takes a lot longe...

Getting stuck on a British Columbia logging road