by Adventure Scientists | Jul 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Day 65: Still Rocking Again, making this a quick blog. Conditions remain windy and rough for a couple more days. After that hopefully I can be a bit more chatty.All well here. Good miles today, but wind still around 30 knots and conditions...
by Adventure Scientists | Jul 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
Toe of the Raven Prescott College students hiked out from the Chugach yesterday-through lush green vegetation & mosquitoes, with skis on backs and hardly any snow in sight we had plenty of questions from tourists indeed. But up high on the glaciers there is...
by Adventure Scientists | Jul 1, 2011 | adventure
On a recent climb of Mount Everest, climber and mountain guides Willie and Damien Benegas collected a sample of the world’s highest known plant life, at 22,300 feet. The sample will be analyzed by two scientific partners working with Adventure Scientists.Tim...
by Adventure Scientists | Jun 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
I finished hiking through India, to the Pakistan border a few days ago. I got to the town of Kargil, right near the India/Pakistan border. The border is also known as the Line of Control since it is an always changing point of contention. The areas near the border are...
by Adventure Scientists | Jun 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Day 57: Got Eggs?Late this afternoon I was pulling in the sea anchor, and got quite a surprise. Last year on the Pacific the sea anchor drew in a very exciting visit from a baby whale shark, evidently fascinated by the big red-and-yellow jellyfish-like thing. The...
