Summit

"It's easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top." -Henry Ward Beecher
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Daffodils

"Certainly they must be the most exhibitionistic flowers there are / trumpeting their presence in yellow -- by far the most visible colour." -Gavin EwartD
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Need for Speed

"Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death!" -credo of the shovel racer. Read my article here.
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Direction

"My needle...always settles between west and south-southwest. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more unexhausted an richer on that side." -Thoreau
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Lake Katherine

"My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well. I am fast shut up like a little lake in the embrace of some big mountains. If you were to climb up the mountains, you would see me down below, deep and shining - and quite fathomless, my dear. You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom." -Katherine Mansfield
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Outdoors

"There is a limit to the number of lands of shore line on the lakes; there is a limit to the number of lakes in existence; there is a limit to the mountainous areas of the world, and in each one of these situations there are portions of natural scenic beauty which are God-made, and the beauties of which of a right should be the property of all people." -Forest Service architect Arthur Carhart
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Solitude

"I want to lengthen, not shorten, my attention span, and most of the material splendors of the twenty-first century bully me in the opposite direction. The fault is mine, I'll admit. I'm too slow-witted, reluctant to evolve, constitutionally unable to get with the program. I can't afford the newest gadgets and I'm not a natural multitasker." -Philip Connors in Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout.
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To the Max

"Don't forget: more 'tude, more verve, and never chince on the good stuff." -advice from a friend.
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At Altitude

"I have always felt I was most myself in the mountains. There I have done the bulk of what is called my creative work...I find most tranquility camped by a mountain lake at timber line." -Kenneth Rexroth
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Gusty

"No one wants to read your mountain-town version of Gone With the Wind, so check the forecast before hitting the slopes." -my latest on OutsideOnline.com
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Woods vs. Sea

"The woods are never solitary -- they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery -- we may only wander, awed and spell-bound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only -- a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of archangels." -another one from Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
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Snow snow snowshoe

"Do you ski?" No. Read more here.
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Limitless

"I'm an ordinary girl... marked out by, if anything, an appetite for adventure and a will for self-improvement. These are qualities available to anyone who is of a mind to acquire them." -Ironman world champ Chrissie Wellington. Just finished her book, A Life Without Limits.
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Navajo Nation

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Outside

"It had only to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles for no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way." -Cheryl Strayed's Wild (a good read for any outdoors lover)
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Arboreal

"When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily." -Mary Oliver
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Together Again

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


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Iceberg

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At Altitude

As seen near Arizona's Highline Trail.
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Natural Order

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