Nothing in the outdoors beats a beautiful view after a long slog up to the top. This section of the Journal will show photo vistas of lots of wonderful spots.
Reading about the Franconia Ridge trail in New Hampshire's White Mountains is okay, but sometimes a video gives you a better idea of what it's all about. This video is 2.5 minutes long. Enjoy!
At long last, I finally made the commitment to do the Ridge. And in summary, I totally recommend anyone to get up on the Ridge and enjoy it for yourself. Little else can be said but “Just Do It”!
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The Labor day weekend was beckoning and the skies were blue and while the beach was a main draw, something about heading to the mountains won out. Most of my over night adventures were in other places like the West, the Adirondacks, Kenya, and India, so I figured it was time to visit New Hampshires woods.
It was a cloudy day (again) in Scotland. This time in the town of Callander, a quaint but nice town in the gateway to the Trossachs, the first Scottish national park. The B&B we stayed in was the Crags Inn, but not a climber’s place, but the name was right. Tomorrow was all about Glen Coe.
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Ben Nevis has always been an attraction for me. Years of reading about Hammish McInnes and the other Scottish mountaineers and all their escapades on the crag called Ben. I was nearby, so I had to visit…
While on holiday (vacation for you Americans), besides the awesome scenery and mountains, Scotland’s ancient castles are certainly worth the time to visit.
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It was a cold and blustery day, back on January 6, 1983, as Paul Stankiewicz and I headed up to Smuggler's Notch. While the Adirondacks was our training ground, we trundled across Lake Champlain to indulge in the Bulge. Still, while the ice grade was at NEI 2-3, since I led the Bulge, perhaps due to total terror, my memory is of the Blue Ice Pillar. Paul, naturally, just dismissed me and my whirling eyes and smiled. Here is the comments from my Climbing notes: Ski in good snow to the…
Out on Ausable Lake in the High Peaks of the Adirondacks. These pictures go way back twenty years ago to the age of Black and White photography. Lots of interesting things can happen as you travel out to the lower Ausable Lake on skis.
This is a cool collection of photos about ice-climbing in one of the Adirondack ice playgrounds. Besides the wonders of Chouinard's Gully and the heinous icicles right over Chapel Pond, across the road, heading into Keene Valley is the classic: Roaring Brook falls.