Updated 6/03/09 with Daniel Holz's 2nd blog from the Kullu Valley in India
"It was a difficult decision to make, but we desperately needed to escape the punishing 44 degree C temperatures of Southern India. Though they beckoned for the snap of our quickdraws, we had to forgo Badami’s beautiful bolted lines altogether. The time had come to travel north to the land of snow capped peaks and yak cheese." —Daniel Holz