Trail running Guides and Trips in Nepal

Finally all major hill tops surrounding the valley in the bag. Took a taxi with Moire, picked up Richard in Lazimpath and drove up to the park entry gate. The first 4 km or so are a foot path to the gomba on the top; steep but easy path, parts of it even a stone stair case, and parts on a ridge and reasonably flat, always a joy to run. We had...

Update 6 November 2010Did a shorter version of this run with Richard, Peter and Kimmo (once we hit the Bagmati, we followed it a bit North, crossed it by the next suspension bridge and took the straight brick kiln route to Bungamati). New: the ridge stone trail to Champadevi is finished!Update 6 June 2010For Moire's story of this run:http://moireosullivan.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/hindus-and-buddists-praying-side-by-side/Update 15 May 2010Did the run again, this time with Moire. Started with a breakfast...

The run was so nice thanks to all Hash Runners taking  part in the ultra run

By way of my farewell to the Nepali trails, Raj, Narayan, Richard, Paul, Thomas and myself  decided on a weekend going South. Friday afternoon in Raj' car to Benighat for a tented overnight at the Big Fig. Really nice location on the Trisuli river about 75k outside Kathmandu. The only downer was that the highway at the other side give the place a bit a feel of a restaurant along the Autobahn....

After descending the trail from Chisopani to Sundarijal in the dark a couple of weeks ago, today we went the other way. I picked Narayan and Miki up and we shared a taxi to Sundarijal; even on an early Saturday morning that took 50 minutes. As this was the last longer run before next week's Kathmandu marathon (http://www.kathmandumarathon.com/) it was to be a very leisurely walk/run, just hours on our feet. An...

This trip we went together with a small group of six from Godavari village up the Pulchoki mountain, all the way to the top (at 2760m) where you can see a communication antenna. It's also the location of a temple (inside an army base).We wanted to take a trail from there, going South, but we couldn't find this trail, plus there are all kinds of warning signs there not to leave the...

UpdateI walked with my friend Han from Friday 30 March 2012 until the morning of Sunday the 1st of April to Tharepati and then ran back to Sundarijal. This is an update about the state of jeep road building and (old trail) short cuts:1. From Sundarijal to Chisopani: after the Sundarijal water reservoir you start hitting the scar road at Mulkharka. Immediately after the reservoir, if you don't follow the sign to...

Rekha, Peter and myself wanted some distance but not too much effort today. And we wanted a bit of new terrain also, so why not add a new bit of Shivapuri ridge scar road to our list of known areas.Not much effort is guaranteed when one goes for a Kakani start because then most of the trail is level or down. But it's a long (on a near traffic free Sat morning...

I downloaded this track from Narayan, who ran with Peter, Upendra and me on what was announced to be a day of general strike (bandh). Thanks Narayan for taking your GPS along!We agreed to meet at Satobato - Peter an I ran there from Summit Hotel, Narayan from close to Godavari, and Upendra from Sanepa. Morning city runs are usually OK, so was this one, although the bazaar street from Patan durbar...

Pictures, as always, from Peter!A long and slow day with lots of 'mistakes' with trails - but so it goes when one tries out new things and we had a good day out. Raj picked Peter and me up at the Summit, we added Upendra on our way to Pulchowk and had a late (7:45) start from Narayan's house. Thre plan was to go up the Bishanku Narayan ridge and do our usual...