robot with a heart » hiking http://www.robotwithaheart.com Sun, 15 May 2011 05:58:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 outdoor fun http://www.robotwithaheart.com/2010/10/17/outdoor-fun/ http://www.robotwithaheart.com/2010/10/17/outdoor-fun/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:29:46 +0000 norm http://www.robotwithaheart.com/?p=717 Continue reading →]]> steph and i have taken a few weekends out for funs. one of the things we’ve been doing a lot lately is hiking. i don’t have pictures from every trip so i’m just posting a few here. we usually pick a trail along the hudson river valley. the last two we did were at breakneck ridge by storm king. the views are pretty fantastic from up high. the one we did this past saturday involved some pretty steep uphill which required a  lot of scrambling. it’s a lot of fun! i think scrambling is more fun than plain stair-climber hiking. your hands get a bit dirty but it’s no big deal. we also had some time to visit golden earthworm farm where we picked sweet potatoes. that what those pictures are. we didn’t go hiking on someone’s farm.

anyway… just a picture post! enjoy!

IMG_3631 IMG_3633 IMG_3634 IMG_3651 IMG_3664 IMG_3668 IMG_3679 IMG_3809 IMG_3811 IMG_3823 IMG_3824 IMG_3850 ]]> http://www.robotwithaheart.com/2010/10/17/outdoor-fun/feed/ 1 peru 2: the 4 day inca trail hike http://www.robotwithaheart.com/2008/12/08/peru-2-the-4-day-inca-trail-hike/ http://www.robotwithaheart.com/2008/12/08/peru-2-the-4-day-inca-trail-hike/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:42:05 +0000 norm http://www.robotwithaheart.com/?p=244 Continue reading →]]> the second part of the trip and probably the most painful yet extremely rewarding part of the trip was the inca hike. in the beginning i suffered from altitude sickness which made it difficult to breathe and i constantly had a throbbing headache. by the 3rd day i was feeling good tho and 4th day was adjusted. along the hike we saw some amazing landscapes. a lot of the pictures i’m gonna post are just landscapes because the mountain views were so breath taking.

there were 4 of us in the trek group + 2 tour guides + 8 porters (one which was a cook who made amazing food with very limited resources in the andes! he even BAKED a cake IN A PAN!… like… on a frying pan… on a gas stove… wow!). the porters carried the large equip like tents and food and mats and cooking gear.

we camped every night in the mountains at designated camp sites (except for the first night where we stayed at one of our porter’s family’s farms). outside our tents would be random dogs that i assumed belonged to the local farmers and other random animals (chickens, donkeys, horses, ducks). anyway… here are the pictures from the hike. img_8122 img_8123 img_8124 img_81281 img_8131 img_8132 img_8142 img_8152 img_8159 img_8164 img_8175 img_8181 img_8189 img_8191 img_8194 img_8196 img_8204 img_8206 img_8208 img_8211 img_8217 img_8225 img_8239 img_8243 img_8245 img_8285 img_8260 img_8273 img_82811 img_8282 img_8288 img_8293 img_8312 img_8321 img_8326 img_8330 img_8335 img_8339 img_8340 img_8344 img_8353 img_8355 img_8356 img_8358 img_8364 img_8426 img_8447 img_8476 img_8481 img_8484

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