Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Kilimanjaro Trek Vital Stats Karanga Camp to Barafu Camp Distance: 2.28 miles Starting Elevation: 4033m Ending Elevation: 4573m Total Climbing: 460m Total Descent: 125m Highest Elevation: 4673m Total Time: 2:34;39 Moving Time: 1:33.01 Calories: 996 Oxygen Saturation at end of day: 82% Day 5 of our trek was billed as a short one. Just a...
Kilimanjaro Trek Vital Stats Baranco Camp to Karanga Camp Distance: 3.73 miles Starting Elevation: 3975m Ending Elevation: 4033m Total Climbing: 450m Total Descent: 390m Highest Elevation: 4213m Total Time: 4:09:29 Moving Time: 1:57:189 Calories: 1271 Oxygen Saturation at end of day: 80% The main event today was the Baranco Wall. This for many is the...
Kilimanjaro Trek Vital Stats Shira Cave to Baranco Camp Distance: 7.1 miles Starting Elevation: 3735m Ending Elevation: 3875 Total Climbing: 808m Total Descent: 650m Highest Elevation: 4498m Total Time: 7:08:19 Moving Time: 4:38:09 Calories: 1930 Oxygen Saturation at end of day: 80%% Today was split into two halves, A climb up to the Lava Tower...
Kilimanjaro Trek Vital Stats Machame Huts to Shira Caves Distance: 3.89 miles Starting Elevation: 2981m Ending Elevation: 3736m Total Climbing: 859m Total Descent: 83m Highest Elevation: 3789m Total Time: 5:28:29 Moving Time: 1:52:03 Calories: 1343 Oxygen Saturation at end of Day: 90% After no sleep at all, I got out of bed and checked my...
Kilimanjaro Trek Vital Stats Machame Gate to Machame Huts Distance: 7.7 miles Starting Elevation: 1841m Ending Elevation: 2981m Total Climbing: 1150m Total Descent: 8m Highest Elevation: 2981m Total Time: 5:12:38 Moving Time: 2:38:12 Calories: 1511 Oxygen Saturation at end of day: 88% After the hassle of getting to Moshi [see ‘Getting there 1‘ and ‘Getting...
My Kilimanjaro trip is almost upon us and with a day at work tomorrow today was my last full day for some final preparations. Old Aches and Pains Things haven’t been going quite to plan though. I had hoped to be training up until the big day so should have been biking, running, swimming and...
Sunday was a lovely day here in West Wales. Clear blue skies, and sunshine but with quite a chill in the air. There was little wind either so a perfect day for a walk in the hills. First though I headed out for a paddle on my surf ski as I haven’t had chance to...
With my continued uncertainty about which boots to use for my upcoming Kilimanjaro trek it would have been silly of me not to get out into the hills for a walk at the weekend. And whilst testing boots, why not make it a long walk? With little daylight around at this time of year this...
As you may know from my post earlier in the week, I’m in the process of preparing for a Kilimanjaro Trek. In addition to choosing my trekking company, picking a route, buying flights, getting imunisations and such like I’ve also started to prepare by getting out in the hills here in Wales for some ‘training’....
My trek up Kilimanjaro may be quite a few weeks away yet but there’s plenty to organise and plan and therefore plenty to write about here. Part of the excitement is in the planning and preparation, so it’s time to start telling you about it and recording these things for posterity. From the trip itself...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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