Bukit Timah Hill… Done!

Wow! We had a brilliant turnout this morning at Bukit Timah Hill! Hope you guys enjoyed yourself and had a good sweat-out! Special thanks to Taxi Pool volunteers: Shi, Mahesh and Jess. Also thanks to Baveen (did I get your name correct?) for helping to guide the first group up. Really appreciate your help! It [...]

Bukit Timah Hike on Sunday 30 November 2008

I’m organizing an short hike on 30 November 2008 (that is next Sunday), up Bukit Timah Hill! Here are the details: Date: 30 November 2008 Time: 0830hrs – 1400hrs Venue: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve Where to meet: 0830hrs sharp outside the visitor center toilet! Fee: What fee? Its FREE! (Thanks Ana, for asking though) We’ll [...]

15 day trek to Garhwal Himalayas in July, anybody?

Great! After setting up this email list, I received an email last week about one of the members going for a 15 day trek to Garhwal Himalayas in July. The trek crosses through high altitude regions with rivers, and passes, highest point being about 20,000 ft (about 6,000 meters). According to Ravi (our member), this [...]

Endau Rompin over the weekend

I actually spent my last weekend over at Endau Rompin, it was a short and fun weekend. Well, lots of pictures and details I want to put up but for now I will need to get going with my work first! It seems like this community is growing, and there is a demand for details [...]

Longer trekking trips

I was meeting up with the people who were going on the Kinabalu trip with me, and one of them was from an earlier batch from the NUS Rovers Adventure Club. In our conversations, she shared that during her times, she had went for the Annapurna Base Camp (ABC) trek with one of the companies [...]

Why go trekking and climb mountains?

Seriously, if you ask me… When I was introduced to trekking by my university’s adventure club, I was in for a rude shock when they brought me to trek the slippery Lombong waterfalls! I was caught totally off guard! I fell like crazy, ending the short two day trek with bruises, cuts and grazes all [...]

Mount Kilimanjaro 2008 – Areas to Research