Val di Fassa’s Val San Nicolo Ridge Traverse After twelve years together, living, working and playing in the mountains – Janine and I may well have just discovered our perfect day. One of the very best of about 4000 days together in the mountains. Janine found it, right there on the Val di Fassa map; a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hiking’
Rifugio Lagazuoi and the WWI Gallery
A Historical Walk to Dinner through the Lagazuoi Tunnels Part of the culture of life in the Italian Dolomites is to share a dinner with friends in one of the many mountain huts (rifugi) – for us, this is habit. Sometimes we hike, other times it’s a ski approach, maybe a trail run, or even a mountain bike ride. [...]
Climbing in Paklenica National Park Croatia
Visiting Croatia? Stable weather, friendly locals, good food, inexpensive, easy access, Mediterranean swimming, flawless limestone – lots of bolts, abundant routes, huts… this is Croatia’s Paklenica National Park. A little piece of heaven. Yet while most European climbing destinations are somewhat packed, Paklenica is like a step into the past, mellow and relaxed. Imagine taking [...]
Laugavegur Tour | Iceland
Trek in Iceland Iceland is one those places that will have your face pressed with enthusiasm against the window of your arriving flight. Upon descent to this small North Atlantic island, you fight to get a glimpse of what is to come. It has a reputation; poor weather, stunning landscapes, massive ice caps and Gnome-like [...]
“Walk the Sky” | The John Muir Trail by John Dittli
Good things are found in the woodwork. Or in this case, in the straw-bale. John Dittli, together with his wife Leslie Goethals, are good things. This morning, as I watched John cartwheel down Lower Rock Creek’s single track mountain bike trail, I decided he would make a great profile. We first started hearing about John [...]
GoreTex Review
Does GoreTex really work? I’ll admit to some nerdy tendencies and let it be known that I keep a pretty detailed training and “fun log”. It keeps me informed about my training while providing some motivation to fill in each day’s square with what I did, training time, intensity, etc… Things have seemed pretty busy [...]
