Suddenly, my bike and I were sliding down a mountain pass in Spain, wondering if I was going to hit another car coming up the road. I had just turned 70 and maybe I was trying to prove that I was still 29 or something, hammering up the Puerto de las Palomas ahead of the […]
Travel
Greenland Ski Mountaineering Expedition- April 2017
Three of us from Seattle, Steve Hindman, Paul Coronett, and I, had arrived in Reykjavik, Iceland, just the day before. We had signed up for an Exploratory Ski Mountaineering Expedition as it was called on the Pirhuk Expeditions website (https://www.expeditiongreenland.com). Our direct seven hour flight from Seattle to Reykjavik on Icelandair was shorter than I […]
Greenland and Iceland– Spring 2017.
Packing and preparing to go– March/April, 2017 I’ve been fascinated by Greenland as long as I can remember. Greenland, the world’s largest island, is almost completely covered by ice and snow– eighty percent of the landmass is covered by an ice sheet over two miles thick that would cause sea levels to rise by more than 23 […]