Lazarow World-Hike-About: Clouds, clouds, my kingdom for clouds...okay, settle down a little, lad.

LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

Nepal: Annapurna Range from Kahundanda: 'Hats off' as a salute to unbelievable mountains. It appears that someone is 'head and shoulders' above these giants. (Just mentioning)

'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 2024, the blog contained over 1,636 hikes (far less than 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. Our 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.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Clouds, clouds, my kingdom for clouds...okay, settle down a little, lad.

In eight hikes over the month spread between Mount Woodson and Iron Mountain, all at sunrise, on only one occasion were the valleys devoid of clouds. This particular region, for reasons unknown to us, is one of the finest when the clouds form below mountaintops and allow the sun to join the party. It becomes a dawn filled with frolicking, shades, shadows, colors, shapes, reflections and fulfilled human observers. Truth be told, if one makes the effort to reach the top at the early hour then one is more than an observer—perhaps it's not unreasonable to classify such person as a participant.
The photographs below are from a hike on Mount Woodson.

(Next postings from Greece, soon.)

Mountain peak comes up for air.