Cortina Our younger selves would cringe if they could see how we have grown to embrace the more refined aspects of mountain culture as we have aged...
The island of French magicians and a question of returning to the past. The roar of the plane is still with us, the buffeting of wind and air as we leave the sky behind, the tear drops of island chains in the blueness,the...
Greeneland As the moon lay heavy on the thick, lapping banks of the Ben Hai, I walked slowly yet purposefully. The day had brought great promise for the...
Imperial Black, Lieutenant Twiss & a Darjeeling Hill Station Shimla Matheran Darjeeling smoke and dawn in the foothills of the Himalaya Darjeeling & Kanchenjunga a temple of...
Out of sorts on the Ides of March March has us jangled and out of sorts. One could easily write off the whole month as nothing seemed to go as planned but our predicament certainly...
Armchair Mountaineers- Planning to Plan inspiration in oxidation. One of E.H's Plans begin to unfold something...
A North Woods Sky We are sitting next to the large purple buddleia. It's dusky smell making itself known when allowed by the stiffening breeze coming off Sturgeon...
Wishing every month of the year could be June The ferry leaves the dock with a slow, groaning inertia. Engines idle hungrily under the diesel thump as air conditioners and fans are pushed to...
