jaandrews

Jaime Riker-Andrews

51 / Female

Sacramento, CA, USA

About jaandrews

Member since 4th Oct 08

Citizenship: USA
Previous Name (ie Maiden): Jaime Riker
Marital Status: Married
About jaandrews:

Mark and I are adjusting to our "Empty Nest". Our only child just started his sophmore year in college. We enjoyed lots of travel together as a family, and hopefully still will in the future. High school and all the activities tend to get in the way a bit, plus leaving your teenager home alone is too tempting. So, now we can travel whenever we want, except for work of course.

Hobbies:

Skiing, reading, hiking and other outdoor activities.

Favourite places:

Donner Lake, Paris, Mexico, Italy

Activity : photos (24) forum (0) guide (0) blog (4) diary (0) trips (0)

Latest Blog Entry

Day Three

Posted by jaandrews | 7th October 2008

This morning we started up an old World War One supply line route. Of course it was straight up, again. We said good-bye to our new Dutch friends, who were taking a different route than us to Cinque Torri, maybe easier, maybe not. But she had hiked down the supply route yesterday and refused to go up it. I didn't think it was so bad. I was refreshed and knew today was probably the most elevation gain of any day on the trip so I must have mentally prepared myself. We walked past the WWI chapel and then up the hill. If you look closely at this photo you can see the trail with the short switchbacks going up the middle. We passed rubble piles left from buildings from the war. Mark is standing on one which really gives you a sense of the enormous scale of these mountains.

After climbing gradually we found ourselves on the ski runs. The restaurant which offer skiiers warmth and hot food in the winter also serves as a lunch and sometimes overnight spot for summer hikers. Refugio Lagazuoi w

Continued | Empty Nest Journeys