Category Archives: Trekking

An overnight to Tastaratacağı and Çalbalı

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Bryan Keith

The hardest thing about this one-night backpacking trip with Özgür and Burak was remembering the name of the first peak we summited: Tastaratacağı.  Çalbalı’s a little easier, but maybe that’s because I’ve climbed it before. We drove up to Hisarçandır … Continue reading →

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Turkey’s far southeast: Sümbül Dağı, Hakkari

Posted on December 30, 2017 by Bryan Keith

I’ve been putting off writing this blog because my camera went kaput just as we were starting up the mountain so I have no photos of what was the reason to travel to Hakkari: climbing Sümbül Dağı.  Of course, my … Continue reading →

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A walk up Tahtalı Dağı in the winter

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Bryan Keith

Tahtalı Dağı (aka Mt. Olimpos) is the most famous of the high mountains near Antalya.  It’s certainly not the highest, but it sits quite near the sea.  The view of the mountain’s 2366m summit from the seaside resort of Çıralı … Continue reading →

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Rize: The City of Glacial Lakes

Posted on September 24, 2017 by Bryan Keith

Just a few days after returning to Antalya from this year’s Kaçkar backpacking trip, I came across a book called “Rize: The City of Glacial Lakes”.  The book catalogs 145 glacial lakes in the Province of Rize with a name, … Continue reading →

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Trekking the Kaçkar at Verçenik

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Bryan Keith

Wow, the Kaçkar Mountains are absolutely stunning.  I’ve biked through the Kaçkar, come skiing twice, and hiked to the eponymous summit, the range’s highest.  This summer Ferda and I planned to traverse the range from the Black Sea side to … Continue reading →

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