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Alexandra Roberts, Alexandra Roberts Photography

Today we are traveling to the White Mountains of New Hampshire to chat with another one of my new favorite people, Alexandra Roberts of Alexandra Roberts Photography.

If you love the outdoors and participate in basically any visual digital media, the Big Brother algorithms have no doubt fed you tons of gorgeous images of well-dressed couples posed in dramatic backdrops - in the middle of giant boulder fields, by a waterfall, on a cliff overlooking peak foliage, or in some kind of magical hobbit-land of moss and lichen. 

You might stop to wonder how the heck they got to that place without getting all sweaty and gross. Or maybe your mind goes immediately to the giant packing list that couple must’ve had. But I’m guessing in all cases, if you think at all about who is behind the camera, you’re assuming she or he is like a Jimmy-Chin type - a hardcore outdoorsperson who hikes and climbs 24/7, is wearing Patagonia head-to-toe, and has an ice ax next to the zoom lens on their utility belt, ready to self arrest and save everyone’s day.

And if that’s where your mind went, you are going to love this conversation as much as I did.

Alexandra's photos started popping up all over my feed many moons ago, and I loved to see all the beautiful and rugged places she went with her couples. When I started following her individually, I also got to enjoy the amazing images she shares in her stories of all her personal adventuring throughout the White Mountains, and I really wanted to bring her onto the podcast to talk about it all. So imagine my surprise when I find out that Alex was mostly a prosecco-sipping, urban patio sitter until a few years ago.

If elopement or marriage is in your future, or if just feeling like a glamorous, paparazzi-stalked superstar in the White Mountains is your jam, you absolutely must check out Alex’s website,  @alexandraroberts on Instagram , or her Facebook page.

And please be the person who gets photographed at Table Rock, I am very impatiently waiting for someone to take her up on that!

So so so so many useful links:

• Howker Ridge Trail (NH)

• Mt. Madison - Madison Spring Hut (NH)

• Cadillac Mountain - Acadia National Park (ME)

• Frye boots

• What is rime ice?

• Carter Notch Hut (NH)

• Osprey packs

• What are the ‘10 essentials’?

• Mt. Hight (NH)

• Carter Dome (NH)

• Pinkham Notch area (NH)

• Rumney (NH)

• Crow Hill (MA)

• What is an ‘AIARE’ course?

• What is AT gear?

• Tuckerman Ravine (NH)

• Cathedral Ledge (NH)

• What are skins?

• What does it mean to be ‘spruce trapped’?

• John Sherburne Ski Trail (NH)

• Boott Spur (Mt. Washington, NH)

• Graniteland - Granite Backcountry Alliance

• Crescent Ridge Glade (Randolph, NH)

• Inclusive Ski Touring - Mt. Abram (ME)

• White Mountain Guide Tracing

• Stairs Mountain (NH)

• Lonesome Lake Hut (NH)

• Lake of the Clouds Hut (NH)

• Table Rock - Dixville Notch (NH)

• The Ramparts in Carter Notch feature prominently in this engagement session Alex did!

• Nineteen Mile Brook Trail (NH)

• Mt. Willard (NH)

• Glen Ellis Falls (NH)

• Skida Sun Tours Buff

• Baldface Circle Trail - Emerald Pool (NH)