Ibiza coastline walk: Figueretas – Santa Eulària

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

Ibiza coastline walk: Cala d’Hort – Cala Bassa

For our first stage on the Ibiza coastline walk, we wanted to combine spectacular scenery with a walk that would…

I admit it. My expectations about the first leg of our Greece trip were, um, modest. After all, it was…

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

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

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

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

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

You know when you’re in a nice mountain village or coastal town and say, hey, I wish I could own…

La Pedriza: ode to granite rock, smells of rockrose, mecca of Madrid climbers and hikers and, well…one of the few…