http://trekking.singaporeoutdoors.com Learn how to organize and lead treks from the adventures of a trekker wannabe based in Singapore, as he explores the world of majestic mountains. Plan a trip off the hustle of city life, and get back to nature! Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:20:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks all who turned up for the MacRitchie walk today! The weather was great this morning and I'm really amazed at the turnout! Not bad for a first time gathering eh! Here is the group photo we took today. If you want the original hi-res photos, drop me ... http://trekking.singaporeoutdoors.com/blog/2008/08/10/macritchie-walk-photos/ I'm sure you heard about it in the news reports... about the 9 fatalities on K2 today. More about it is reported here. From the report, apparently the climbers met with the avalanche on their descent and K2 has the deadliest descent: Those mountaineers who reach the peak have a much greater chance ... http://trekking.singaporeoutdoors.com/blog/2008/08/04/k2-climbing-disaster/ Wow! Its been a loooong while since I posted - over a year! I've not been trekking for some time now - its really easy to get bogged down with work once we start working, and time really flies. ... and my belly's got bigger too. ;) Well, I'm glad ... http://trekking.singaporeoutdoors.com/blog/2008/08/02/lets-get-started-with-a-walk-at-macritchie/ 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). ... http://trekking.singaporeoutdoors.com/blog/2007/06/26/15-day-trek-to-garhwal-himalayas-in-july-anybody/ In effort to form up this community of trekkers in Singapore, I have recently subscribed to an email management service so that I don't have to keep track of all your email addresses by copying them into my Excel file one by one! Through this list, I hope that ... http://trekking.singaporeoutdoors.com/blog/2007/06/15/care-to-join-the-singapore-trekking-community/ 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! :P It seems like this community is growing, and ... http://trekking.singaporeoutdoors.com/blog/2007/05/16/endau-rompin-over-the-weekend/ I was chatting with a friend over on MSN a couple of weeks back and we decided that after their school term ends in May, we will be putting down everything we have to do and go for a (very) short trek together. After exchanging a few emails with the ... http://trekking.singaporeoutdoors.com/blog/2007/03/29/anybody-know-how-to-get-to-ken-waterfalls-at-kota-tinggi/ I think one of the main reasons why people stop trekking is because of the difficulty to arrange suitable dates where everyone (you normally trek with) can take time off and go out for a few days together. Busy city life is plagued with deadlines to meet, appointments to ... http://trekking.singaporeoutdoors.com/blog/2007/02/28/i-want-to-organise-a-trip-this-junejuly/ I was kinda disappointed because I was supposed to make my trip to Desaru over the weekend, but it was called off due to some other time commitments and constraints from the rest of the team. Still, we met up for half a day yesterday at East Coast Park ... http://trekking.singaporeoutdoors.com/blog/2007/02/05/no-desaru-again/ Now that I've more time to think about what I really want to do - I should really start real action towards my goal of conquering Kilimanjaro in 2008. According to a friend, the mountain's terrain is not difficult technically, and the main issue concerning most trekkers is the altitude sickness. Its ... http://trekking.singaporeoutdoors.com/blog/2006/12/31/getting-back-on-track-kilimanjaro-2008/