by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 29, 2023 | Living in Place
Christmas Day Hike on Black Mountain With no snow on the ground, we decided on a Christmas Day hike up Black Mountain. It’s a short, five-and-a-half mile loop to 1,250 feet just six miles from home, and in all these years, we’d never hiked it. We’d always opted for...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 14, 2023 | Living in Place
A Mouthful of Words I’ve just returned from a first-ever visit to Yellowstone National Park and brought home a mouthful of words as souvenirs. Here are some of my favs: Big Sky I had a big dose of the big sky in all its variety: yellow sunshine, puffy white clouds,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 13, 2019 | Living in Place
Several readers have requested advice about hiking the Chilkoot Trail. The Chilkoot is a 33-mile hiking trail from Alaska to Canada that an estimated 70,000 gold prospectors used during the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898. Most of the prospectors left from the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 19, 2016 | Living in Place
Mt. Mansfield Forces a Change of Plans We’d planned to hike an ambitious ten miles on September first, but we stopped after arduous six. It wasn’t the distance that stopped us; it was the topography, forcing us to change our plans. Our plan was to climb and traverse...
