The idea of maintaining a traveling/climbing blog started in the preparation phase of my Oregon trip in May 2025.
There’s this trend I really dislike, especially in the Chinese internet. Tech companies are creating their own information firewalls to isolate their contents from search engines. Many useful contents on Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok are now videos or photos and incredibly hard to find. Text-based info isn’t always searchable either, like your favorite RedNotes. I might enjoy the algorithms’ recommendations for recreational purposes, but when I need to find that specific thing, the searchable internet is dying. For those of us who have used floppy discs, this is frustrating and goes against the whole idea of the internet being an open and free place.
In the climbing world, they say you learn by surviving the mishaps that didn’t kill you. I would say this is too dangerous a way of learning, and I hope my writings can give you some of my lessons instead. Meanwhile, it can be hard to find nuanced information for your particular trip, such as:
- Shall I start 12 am in the morning or maybe 2 am is fine?
- How is the snow quality? How long would I expect to carry my skis? Are ski crampons absolutely necessary?
- Shall I use two ice axes or just one is okay?
- How long is the rappel? How’s the anchor looking?
I hope I will be able to provide some of these answers for people planning similar thing as me.
This is the first reason I want to log some trips to this old-fashioned blog. The second reason is, of course, the good old blog from my dear advisor, Punk in Crampons. This also encouraged me to put down some of my stupid rantings.
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