Category Archives: Trekking

Five winter days in Kaçkar with İsmet and the Bulgarians

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Bryan Keith

Training for Nepal, part two. I wanted to call this post “skiing in Kaçkar”, and, well, the week started with skiing, but it didn’t end with skiing. I took an overnight bus from Niğde to Erzurum, went straight to the … Continue reading →

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Five winter days in Aladağlar with İsmet and Alper

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Bryan Keith

Training for Nepal, part one. I wanted to call this post “skiing in Aladağlar”, and, well, the week started with skiing, but it didn’t end with skiing. I took an overnight bus from Antalya to Niğde and arrived at Recep’s … Continue reading →

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Trekking in Ergaki National Park

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Bryan Keith

The story goes that during Soviet times mountain-loving Russians headed off to the Pamirs, Kyrgyzstan, or other Central Asian mountains.  Only with the collapse of the Soviet Union did Siberia’s Ergaki National Park start to get popular.  Even today the … Continue reading →

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Siberian vacation: my day in a Russian police station

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Bryan Keith

continued from the last post… Özgür and I ended up spending 12 days backpacking in the Altai Mountains (aka Golden Mountains of Altai, a UNESCO World Heritage Site).  My favorite spot was the area called Seven Lakes.  After our rain-forced … Continue reading →

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Northern Portugal walk: Vale de Côa, Serra da Estrela, Buçaco

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Bryan Keith

Continuing from my last post… we left Pinhão and the Alto Douro by bus on a slow and very curvy road through (again) endless hills covered with vineyards and schist walls.  Our destination was a UNESCO World Heritage Site (again), … Continue reading →

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