LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

KwaZulu-Natal: South Africa: The top of the Tugela Falls, the world's second highest...someone forgot to turn on the tap. Big surprise! (Beyond the chain ladders and the Sentinel).

'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

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Monday, September 2, 2024

63.19 Remembering a few that stood out, that gave us pleasure and sweat.

  It's seldom we forget a place we have frequented or sights that have stirred us or experiences that are unforgettable. However, with new sights, hikes and scenes occurring daily, many of the earlier ones are filed and not viewed much. It's a pity as they remind us of earlier times, often they're pretty attractive and it seems unfair to relegate them to the bottom of the hill or left in the valley. With this in mind, we identified a few at random and quickly; we have mixed them in amongst the Nepalese trip and the western deserts of last winter. 

'Hey, Dunes', Death Valley, California.


Kenmo Lake, Himeville, South Africa.


Machu Picchu Mountain above the ruins 2,000 feet below in Peru.


Crete, Greece.


Sani Pass, Lesotho.


Bryce Canyon, Utah.


Dawn at Keurboomstrand, South Africa.


La Serrara Peak, Andorra, alongside France.


Chamonix, France.
Lac Blanc, Andorra.
Alomana, Hawaii.
Sliding Sands Trail, Hawaii. 
 Valley of Fire, Nevada at dawn. 
 Dolomites, Italy. 
Lake near Tahoe.
One evening on the Otter Trail, the sun cascades from the sky.
Jen about to reach Angels Landing.
Back in Austria on the peak of Seefeld Spitze.
A view of Machu Picchu on the way to the peak of the same name.
Godot Voss, Iceland.
A view from Iron Mountain at sunrise, San Diego.

After crossing a river, we rise on the Otter Trail.
Jen tiptoes through a forest on French Island of  La Reunion.
Partial Sentinel as we approach after tough climb, Kwa-Zulu Natal, RSA.
They don't look better than this one...a favorite climbing the chain ladders at the Sentinel in South Africa.
At the second highest waterfall in the world, the Tugela Falls, but where's the flow?
A Drakensberg scene from another mountain of the range.
Switzerland.

Cheers, 

Jenni and Jeffrey

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Really enjoyed viewing this collection of past hikes, and pleased they didn’t get pushed down to the valley floor.

Anonymous said...

BJ