When the small, all-star crew from The Mountains descended upon Carole Radziwill’s beautiful Catskill, NY home to begin what would prove to be not only a very long day shooting the journalist, author and former Real Housewives Of New York City star for this issue’s cover story, but one of the very best experiences any of us have had in our careers. All the signs were there: The sun was shining, the glam squad was ready and our host/woman of the hour was up for anything. “Let’s make some magic, people!” The Mountains’ Editor in Chief Richard Pérez-Feria announced as…
When I was a kid, my parents promised us a puppy and a puppy we got. Hippie was a beautiful Collie, son to a former national champion and a true…
Photography by Natalie Chitwood for THE MOUNTAINS The joys (and pitfalls) of surviving a genuinely interesting life—a life precisely like the one the woman I’ve been entranced by for the…
You’ll come for the spa and rebook for the fun. For those who may have experienced Mohonk Mountain House in a different era, the newly updated property with its now…
Taking the Eurostar for a recent two-month stay in Paris from my four months in London, I was thinking about all those trips I took on Amtrak from Hudson, New…
There are several cities around the globe that live on my personal “obsessed list” and, until I landed in it, Helsinki wasn’t one of them. In the spring, I emerged from…
I don’t like eating out with a crowd. I’m not objecting to being at a celebration, like a gala or a wedding. That’s a completely different vibe. I mean, you start…
There’s nothing quite like the scent of the air when you walk out your door on an early spring morning. There’s just something different. The sharpness of winter is gone,…
Saturday 6:45 A.M. Walking the dogs When you live with three dogs, there’s no sleeping in on the weekends. We leash them up and make the short drive to Ooms…











