Have you noticed the webcam photos on the home page? There are three right now: Yosemite, atop the Aiguille du Midi in Chamonix, and Teton Pass, Wyoming. What you might not have noticed is that these are live images–every time you refresh the page, it loads the most recent webcam shot. Well, there have been lots of late nights working on The Adventure Life over the last week or two, where I’m refreshing the home page every minute or two, and right around 10:30 p.m. on the West Coast something has been catching my eye. It’s the sun coming up over Chamonix. At first there’s the glow on the horizon, then the sun kisses the peaks, and then soft blue light replaces the dark shadows in the valley below. No question, being there in person would be awesome, but the whole point of a webcam is that it takes you somewhere you aren’t. It’s comforting to know that every night as I’m ramping down, the crazy wild ski peoples of Chamonix, France, are winding up.

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