HOLY FUCKING CRAP, ALPS!
In 1995 I visited Chamonix, France. My friend/roomie and I spent $35 to take cable cars up to l'Aiguille du Midi at 3800 m [link] Worth every damn penny. I shot a roll of film in 15 minutes and looking down on the clouds felt like being on Bespin.
My necklace. I pulled theirs and cleaned it up a little.
Sean, you have to say Ciao! to someone at least once, just because. Extra points if one of you is on a vespa.
(preens) thanks! it was the most ambitious thing I'd ever done ... part of it during the weeklong snowed-in period this winter
Sean you get double points if you say it to a French monkey driving a bus.
Toddson, that's lovely!
I forget that not everyone lives at the base of large granite sub-sections of the Rocky Mountains.
I grew up at the south end of the Rockies, and lived in Denver for a bit. I've also lived around the Carpathians and Transylvanian Alps.
But The Alps? HOLY CRAP.
Trudy was out here in Utah a few years ago, and I remember her boggling at the mountains. I forget that not everyone lives at the base of large granite sub-sections of the Rocky Mountains.
Sighhhh
They were so wonderful and EVERYWHERE. I think it was being in the middle of them that blew me away.
The first time I saw the Alps I was awaking on a train car in the middle of the night. The moon was so bright that I could see everything clear as day. The frame of the window made me feel like I was watching a film of the alps. It took me a long time to convince myself the whole thing was real.