One of my favorite stretches on the Tour du Mont Blanc goes right through the Contamines-Montjoie nature reserve. It’s the highest nature reserve in France and offers an unbelievable mix of picturesque alpine landscapes, dramatic …
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Be A Tourist in Your Own Town When travel isn’t an option, you can be a tourist in your own town. I’m referring to the geographic part of your town – get ready to take …
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A Hidden Valley It isn’t easy getting into Livigno Italy. And for most of the 18th and 19th centuries it was sealed off from the rest of the world and accessible only in the summer …
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Wildlife on the Tour du Mont Blanc If you’re hiking the Tour du Mont Blanc this summer, don’t forget to look up to the sky once in a while! Because that’s the domain of some …
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The third article in a Summer and Winter blog series of four. The single best hiking day on my 220-mile trek along the Via Alpina during the summer of 2019 was the traverse of the …
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The second article in a Summer and Winter blog series of four. I’m on Google Maps right now and can see that our lodge in the remote Val Roseg is just five kilometers from St. …
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First article in a Summer and Winter blog series of four. I had no idea what to expect on my first visit to the Fanes-Sennes-Prags Nature Park, set in the Dolomites in South Tirol, Italy. …
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There are many crystal hunting secrets. When I meet crystal hunter Jean-Franck Charlet in his house in the Chamonix Valley, my biggest question, of course, is where, in the immeasurable amount of granite, you can …
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