From the Mountains above the Applegate River

      When the smoke lifted, even slightly, last week, I immediately left for a quick hike on the Stein Butte trail. I didn't have time...

     Smoke is a gray-white pall on the blue sky. Outside my window it bleaches the small, foreground peak of Little Humpy into the gray-whi...

      While I was gone in June, first to Sweden and then hiking on Corsica, I asked four nearby neighbors if each would take a week to come...

      There is nothing more true about the life of each of us than that it will end in our death. Some of us will be fortunate enough to pl...

     When Mike and I arrived at the end point of the GR20, after seven days of hiking and many strenuous miles on rocky trails, throu...

     Interrupting the tales of GR20 adventures for a moment, I'm inserting a word about my birthday last week. My son, Ela, came down fr...

      After a delicious breakfast at the Hotel U Castellu, in Vizzavona, we started our first day on the GR20. We ascended steadily, hiking...