After 11 days and untold miles at sea, the island appeared, wreathed in morning mist, mountains lined up, hump to hump, like sleeping green camels.
Clear skies in Juneau reveal sheer, snow-capped mountains lining the Gastineau Channel and bald eagles coasting over the water the way crows might elsewhere.
The word here, in the tough neighborhoods that tumble down the far side of the mountains lining the once-splendid bay, is that everybody is paying protection money: doctors, taxi drivers, local stores.
And with the Jones courses generally next to lakeside mountains lined with deciduous trees, there may not be a better time to visit than the approaching fall months of September and October.
Oman has the only programme to conserve the wild leopards – an estimated 50 animals live in the mountains lining the country's Indian Ocean coast close to Yemen, around half of them in a protected area.
Then Canyon Road forks off towards the mountains, lined with more art spaces and exhibitions: check out the "wind sculptures" at Wiford Gallery and the hive of small galleries around the Tea House, where you can also refresh yourself with any of a hundred types of tea; and Ernesto Mayans Gallery's old-school eye for authentic painting.
Then rushing in between mountains lined with pine trees, it reaches Manali town.
The portion of NY 9N between Lake George village and Hague is relatively isolated, with mountains lining the western edge of the highway and the lakeshore located to the immediate east.
It cuts through the intersection of the Hindukush, Himalaya, and Karakoram mountains, lined with Chinese projects as dramatic as their natural settings: glistening dams, hydropower plants, highways soaring through the sky in defiance of deathly mudslides below, and at the top, the Khunjerab Pass.
In 1999, this mountain line in India was the first to be recognized by the UNESCO and inscribed on the World Heritage List.
