Travis Koch Articles
Vancouver, Canada – September 1999So, it’s September and summer’s ending, sorry. To this point we’ve had around 9 sunny days compared to the norm of around 30 so it has really sucked.
Okay, I’ll shut up, it’s still summery, and is likely to stay that way for a little longer yet, but we have started losing about 4
minutes [...]
Last month I predicted that September would begin to suck, weatherize. Fortunately, I was totally wrong. It was a bit nippy, but the sun shone most of the time so I’m not complaining.
October to November puts Vancouver in limbo for a while. The rains begin, but it’s still too early to head up to Whistler [...]
OK, so here’s the deal. I gave November a miss for a couple of personal reasons (Weekends were booked riding my new motorcycle ), but there was really nothing going on. The weather finally turned into that icky period when hiking is less fun but it’s still too early for skiing. Prior to [...]
Vancouver, Canada – August 1999We’re just getting used to the sun again after an unusually wet winter and spring.
Hiking
Hikers and backpackers will not like the outlook for mountain weather this summer. This winter we had double the normal snow pack in the mountains and June was very cool (There was snow on July 1st at one of [...]
Vancouver Music FestivalJuly 28 – August 13, 2000
Spectacular Music
Those who gather at the historic Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver, B.C. on July 28 will be admitted at no charge to Open House at the Roundhouse, the opening event in Festival Vancouver, one of the most spectacular and varied celebrations of music to be held in North America in the year 2000.
From that [...]
Back in Nairobi
The following morning, we hiked to the park gate to wait for our ride back to Nairobi. Back to African reality, he was about four hours late.
All in all, the experience was outstanding and I highly recommend it. If you have some experience in high altitude trekking and have someone to go with, [...]
Trekking Mount Kenya (3 of 4)Day Three: Easy half day
Up early again, drying out from yesterday’s big long hike in the rain, we were looking forward to a much easier day. The trek up to Austrian Hut would only take the morning, and although steep in parts Daniel assured me it would be much easier than our previous day. After [...]
Trekking Mount Kenya (2 of 4)Day One: Drive to the Mountain
African is infamous for its rubber time so I was prepared when 10:00 am stretched to past noon before we all got into our vehicle and began the drive to Chogoria village for lunch. One note here, the guide company assured me that I would be able to use my [...]
Trekking Mount Kenya (1 of 4)Hiking the highest mountain in Kenya over four day
