Trail running Guides and Trips

First effort to get to Wadi Hoff and back. Forgot to switch off my GPS after reaching the entrance gate so the last 2k or so are in a taxi.The aim was to make it back, get a better feel for the land and be able to relate the route I did to the google terrain info that one gets with everytrail. So here you go. Biggest mistake was not to get...

Spent a couple of days in Dahab and did a walk down Wadi Qnai El Rayan (no track) and, the day after, a run from our guest house (Marine Garden Bedouin Camp just beyond Lighthouse) along the sea to the road out toward the Blue Hole,  crossing over to enter a wadi at the other side that my freediving instructor Steve Keelan had pointed out to me, to climb an easy gradient...

Marjan's school joined a charity run organized by the Cairo American College, an international school located in Maadi, with 80% American pupils. The course was set on the South rim of Wadi Degla. We accessed bypassing the park entrance via a sort of garbage dumping area South of it. I opted for the longest distance, 10k, two loops of 5k. Nice course, like always went out way too fast and thus found...

Paul needed to reccie the route of his students going on a trek next week. Thomas and myself accompanied him for the first part of that reccie. Starting South of Thankot on the way towards Chitlang Bhanjyang it was still known terrain. It's a jeep road up to the pass, but one can do quite a bit of it on the old trail short cutting the new road. The road has some...

The three of us had a weekend only but still wanted to get into alpine terrain. What to do? The region nearest to Kathmandu, the lakes of Gosainkunda are the obvious choice, and were new terrain for all of us (I had visited Gosainkunda proper once, 30 years ago but never seen either the Laurebina La (pass) or the higher lakes).So Paul, Thomas and myself left from the British school around 3PM...

Yesterday, Raj, Richard and myself went out for a short exploration of unknown Shivapuri trails. That was quite successful, although we lost our way a couple of times and Raj put the track up here:http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1487273&code=9e72cf666c6b627abc550215c61e1fd5 The reason why I mention it is because I wore my five fingers, hit a toe and started today's exploration with Paul and Henk with a painful toe. I ended it with something looking very blue and I...

For those who live up North: a nice 20k route doing the Shivapuri foot hills. Track is by Peter from a run with Richard.

Biggest group ever to join us on a trail run: Peter, Raj, Narayan, Miki, Sarah, Pawan, Ritish, Umesh, Hari (yes the famous Hari Roka, a good friend of fellow Jumli Narayan), Paul and myself. The first 16-17k were city, upto Kopan. Lots of slums along the Bagmati (although they seem to be cleared fast for the river road), and Pashupatinath and Bauddha (with the great sel roti place for breakfast).We all stayed together...

This is actually Miki's track (and her photo's) so you can also find it here: http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1372629We were five, Miki, Raj (who has his track here: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/131141267#)Sarah, Pawan and myself. I had done this area from my house with Peter before:http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1129879But the Chauni-Chauni circuit is  a great, actually better way to explore this area. The small allies in the Chauni area are traffic free, you cross the ring road and very quickly after that can...

The track and pictures are Peter's. That's why it starts near his house close to Bhatbhateni super market, and ends at Chabahil. We ran together from Kopan to Kopan (marked on the map), we being Raj, Upendra, Ritish, Narayan, Pawan, Peter and myself. The length of the run was 25k.The run basically connected known trails but made for a nice half day circuit run from Kopan monastery above Bauddha. The combination of...