The Arch Field partially-unmaintained scramble to the sand

partially-unmaintained scramble to the sand below

a chain that became the world's most coveted surf address once charter boats started running from Padang in the early 1990s

Comanche was the name of one of the few US Cavalry horses to survive Little Bighorn — found wounded but alive on the field two days later

the rock spine reading bare against the wash

the wind still loading snow off the upper ridges

The Arch Field partially-unmaintained scramble to the sandCathedral Cove sits at the northern end of New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula, reached by a 45 minute walk down from Hahei or by boat in summer. The arch is what most people come for a hollowed out passage between two beaches, cut into volcanic ignimbrite by the Pacific over millions of years. Te Hoho Rock, the sea stack out front, is what completes the frame. Ben got there at first light, when the cove still belongs to whoever woke earliest and the