Sweeping forest and mountain views form the backdrop for the wood-paneled contemporary, set on a ridge of more than two acres in the Blue Sky Ridge neighborhood.
Sweeping forest and mountain views form the backdrop for the contemporary, set on more than two acres in the Blue Sky Ridge neighborhood.
Cut to wide shot: Hurley, a tiny insignificant leather blip in a sweeping mountainous forest scape.
Even in nature -- pine forests sweeping up to crystalline mountains wreathed with white mists -- the human divisions are always close at hand.
From $1,445pp excluding flights and $500+ for group kitty, +1 800 805 7680, dragoman.com, next departure 28 April One of the most beautiful countries of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan is an outdoor enthusiast's dream, with its snowcapped mountains, sweeping steppes, primeval forests and turquoise lakes.
We are pootling along the smooth, rolling A roads of Sweden's west coast, past lakes, red clapperboard farmsteads, assorted summer houses with woodstacks piled high, granite escarpments, dense pine forests, sweeping meadows, green fields lined with regiments of lupins, and warning signs for moose.
Sweeping impacts on forests ensued from French colonial forestry (McElwee 2016), and during the country's struggle for independence large forest areas were damaged by impacts of war (especially aerial herbicides; Brauer 2009).
Behind me, I feel the forest sweeping north to the Yukon River, across the Arctic Circle, and on to the solitary peaks of the Brooks Range.
But I'm above the sleepy village of Warth, riding down wide, empty snowfields, still untouched since the previous night's snowfall, passing the occasional glowing chalet window, before sweeping into the forest, where silence settles thickly.
Inland from this horror, though, a magical world is still waiting to be discovered - a land of hilltop villages, sweeping pine forests, ancient castles and monasteries.
