Best of 2025

I am back with my traditional “best of” entry. Only this year I feel like taking a more impressionistic route … More

Best of 2024

Tradition dictates—time to write up my year of travel. I did it, it’s done, and yes, it’s being published a … More

2022 – the year we left COVID behind, or so it appears. A year I found it hard to say … More

It was from the summit of Peña Ten, back in 2019, that I saw Tiatordos peak (1951m) Since then, climbing it … More

After the scenic, rewarding hike from Cala d’Hort to Cala Bassa the day before, on day 2 I would be … More

In this hiker’s imagery, La Maliciosa (“the malicious one”) is the biggest mountain in our modest sierra. Huge, really. Not … More

The Pyrenees are a mountain chain that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, and which acts as … More

This is a story that took place in August 2012, on Vermont’s Long Trail, close to its Northern terminus. It’s … More

Every Spanish town has a bar, no matter how dinky the town may be. Conventional wisdom that my son had … More

Pretty impressive, the guajes, nodded the ruddy Asturian mountaineer on meeting the three of us on the top of Peña … More