By Made Ziius
For several years now I have wanted to visit Republic of Georgia. During my other travels people have told me incredible stories about how nice and welcoming the Georgian people are so I wanted to experience that myself, hoping in that they would expire me and make me more positive and open as well. What... Continue Reading →
La Malinche mountain is an inactive volcano (dormant for the last 3,100 years) located in Tlaxcala and Puebla states, in Mexico. Officially, its summit reaches 4,461 metres (14,636 ft) above sea level, though it is generally considered to be closer to 4,440 metres. It is the sixth-highest in Mexico. Traveling to Mexico we did not plan to do any hiking actually, but we should have known... Continue Reading →
Sunnmøre is the southernmost region of the western Norwegian district of Møre og Romsdal. Its main city is Ålesund. The district is made up of mainland as well as several large islands such as Hareidlandet, plus many small islands. The region is an hikers wet dream! There are several big fjords in the area which means steep hikes... Continue Reading →
After the less successful ski-touring trip couple of weeks back I needed a successful adventure! I just felt the itch for doing something new more and more. Now it was the time. I knew right a way what I wanted to do. I have been thinking about sleeping in the mountains during winter for some... Continue Reading →
I hope you all have had a nice Christmas celebration so far. At the moment of writing this blog post I sit in Norway and have a nice view to the mountains and the sea. I have eaten way too much Christmas food but I am happy to be able to spend some time with... Continue Reading →
So on Monday everybody were exited about the "supermoon". Apparently the moon did appear larger than it has since the 1940s. It was supposed to be the whole 14% bigger and 30% brighter compared with the smallest full moons. Pay attention to that last fact "compared with the smallest full moons." In other words it was... Continue Reading →
On Fridays a typical conversation I have goes like this: X: So what are your plans for the weekend? Me: Actually I will go hiking. X: (Rolling eyes) off course you are. People don't always understand why somebody would climb 1500 meters to the top of a mountain just to walk down again (and I... Continue Reading →
As I wrote in previous post, this weekend I joined an organized hike by a group named Hiking buddies Munich (you can check them out here). This is a quite active hiking group on Facebook, where everybody can organize hikes and invite people to join. Hikes that are organized vary from difficult hikes for experienced... Continue Reading →
The hiking season in Germany is much longer than in Norway. This is one of the things I love about living here. While it's already snowing in Norway and people are preparing their skis, here you can still climb a 2000 m high mountain in tights 😀 This weekend we hiked Kramerspitz (1985 m). Kramerspitz is in... Continue Reading →
