LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

New Zealand: Tongariro Alpine Crossing: Ngauruhoe Volcano ("Mt. Doom"), a perfect sunrise.

'LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT: WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HIKE-ABOUT?'

Hike-about is an adventure that commenced June 2010. After storing our household movables, ridding ourselves of a house but retaining our 'home' together, we set off with the purpose of hiking in different parts of the world, not forgetting the home country, the USA.

Our primary focus is hiking to mountain peaks but any challenging hike will do just fine. Extended stays enable us to enjoy and experience living in various places amongst differing cultures. Hike-about has evolved into a way of life. It's also a process of discovery, both the world and ourselves.

We work and live 'on the road' but return to the city in which our grandchildren reside, every couple of months. This provides us the wonderful opportunity to be with them as well as a child or two, even three and of course, friends.

By the end of 2023, the blog contained over 1,560 hikes (less than that actually undertaken), each a set of pictures with stories and anecdotes from the trails. An index to the right allows the viewer to identify earlier experiences.

Finally, we are often asked about the journey's end.
O
ur reply, as accurate as we can state, is: "When we are either forced to cease through health issues or the enjoyment level no longer reaches our aspirations, we will hang up the boots."

"A Life Experience As No Other: Dare to Seize the Day Together", published by Fulton Books, depicts our life on the road and mountains until the beginning of 2017. It has developed 'exponentially' since then.

Jenni and Jeffrey Lazarow

Whereas we continue to update the blog regularly, we circulate email notifications infrequently.

Saturday, March 17, 2018

35.07 An introduction to El Chaltan, Los Glaciares National Park, as we pause from Bariloche.


We wake every day, we consider the issue, we shake our collective heads and remind ourselves it is summer in the southern hemisphere. Then we remember Argentina, the southern part, where we are, is in that same hemisphere. All of the pondering is for nought—it’s irrelevant. It’s been a long time since we’ve felt this cold. The temperatures have reached below freezing at times, the water is icy, the wind is never far from us and of course, it’s summer—toward the end of the season though. We had no hot water the other night. We can handle cold-water but icy liquid on the body, we admit, is beyond our level of courage.

Every now and again we get something right, we think. As an introduction to this beautiful region (before the blog returns to Bariloche), take a look at the dawning of a new day, another miracle.



The region's icon, Cerro Fitz Roy, indeed a 'gorgeous monster', at dawn and the rest of the day, too. To the left is
Cerro Poincenot.





Stunning little one, Cerro Torre, not at all little from closer, reminds me of a cat with its back
toward the camera





My favorite so far, the 'lonely mountain'.




Sunrise provides the gold.




As the sun rises, the colors continue to change.




We hope you enjoy these as much as we did and continue to appreciate. A blog, with a full set of pictures, encapsulating the beauty of the region will follow shortly.

Adios and cheers,

Jenni and Jeffrey

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