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. Big tech companies are creating their own information firewalls, and search engines are becoming obsolete. Now, most of the info on Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok is in the form of videos or photos. Text-based info isn’t always searchable either. I might enjoy the algorithms’ recommendations for recreational purposes, but when I need to find specific info, most of the searchable internet is junk. For those of us who remember 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. 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 doing the same 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.