heights of the spine

A frigid wind whips roughly across the upper ridge of the gulley near Crobhear Lake, sending cascades of snow from the drifts above. A wretched time of year to need outside assistance. There was no doubt the wide open mountainside would be worse at this altitude. It was rare, perhaps once every...

The Spine The Crucible Stone Deep among the highest peaks, where snow falls and wolves howl, there too stands a monument of significance only to now a family few in number, ever growing shallower, yet this does not stop the rite of Tradition, even when the hours grow dark and grim...