I admit that I have slight love affair with the Côte d’Azur‎. There is something magical in the air that makes even a rock beach and sun burn sound like great ideas. The last time I was there was this summer and thanks to the conveniently located miles and miles of beach, I managed to sneak in a little time lounging around in the sun. The picture here is after a breakfast of a giant pots of muscles and some chips. The only drawback of course being that I was salty and sticky for the rest of the day, including my flight to Berlin.

Time was that I would regularly change the background for this site. I let me love for the Queen Charlotte Track get the better of me and haven’t changed it in a long time. I’m going to get back into it, so if you have any nice pictures you are willing to share, please do send them along to weldon [at] questingforadventure.com.

It was summer in New Zealand and coming up with the first hill of the Queen Charlotte Track, we were greeted with this wonderful view. We spent the next three days hiking fast and hard over hills along the ocean on both sides and encountered views much like this one all the way. It was exhausting, but well worth it. When you’re in New Zealand, I highly recommend taking a long trek along one of the great tracks.

When I was skiing in Grimentz over this last holiday break, we were fortunate enough to receive a foot of fresh snow. The next day, which was perfectly sunny and gorgeous, I spotted this guy hiking up the mountain above the lifts for one of the first rides in the fresh powder.

On New Years Eve this year in Girmentz, Switzerland, we were blessed with over a foot of snow in one night. Of course fighting off the hang over to get to the slope the next day was a challenge, but capturing the sublime beauty of the fresh snow was easy as could be.

In late summer the sun paints the Cote d’Azur every morning and evening with a mellow red light. It makes your eye linger over the landscape and wish that there were just a couple of clouds to catch that red light, but of course there rarely are.