My first trip to the Alpstein, in northeast Switzerland, was a mixed bag. The Alpstein is a compact range of limestone peaks, very different from the heavily glaciated massifs in…
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While attending a relative’s wedding last fall in Trumansburg, New York, I had the opportunity to spend a long weekend in the nearby lakeside town of Ithaca. We flew in…
My fascination with the grizzly bear goes back to an adventure climb in the Selkirk Mountains. What started as a terrifying close encounter with what I believed to be a…
When considering a trip to Glacier National Park, how long should you stay? A prevailing answer might be “as long as it takes,” which could conceivably be weeks, even months,…
Living in Coeur d’Alene means being accustomed to having access to a lake with approximately 135 miles of shoreline and a host of water activities, public access points, restaurants and…
After leading a two-and-a-half-week tour in Switzerland’s Berner Oberland, I bid my group adieu and set out to spend a week on one of the world’s most epic hiking tracks,…
After leading a group on a hiking tour in Italy’s Dolomites, I bid my hiking group adieu in Munich and hopped the train to Salzburg, Austria, my launching point for…
Tucked into the farthest northwest corner of Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park is one of the best places to experience the pure power, magnificent beauty and rich archeological and natural history…
I finagled a three-day weekend away from the office. The Subaru is neatly packed, the gas tank full, the GPS estimates we will arrive in Enterprise, Oregon in a little over four hours. We back…
Last August, we identified an opportunity to take nearly a week’s time out of the office and do something that has been on our short list but required more than…