[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Weir Hill, North Andover, MA Date: August 11, 2012 Distance: 2.3 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 235 feet Our Hiking Time: 2 hours roundtrip Trail Blaze: Yellow circle Difficulty: Easy[/box] For the past few...
Today we traveled across Massachusetts to North Adams, a small town nestled in the Berkshire mountains in the northwestern part of the state. Though our goal was to stop at the Museum of Contemporary Art, we...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”] Location: Ward Reservation, Andover, MA Date: August 7, 2012 Distance: .8 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 120 feet Our Hiking Time: 1.75 hours roundtrip Trail Blazes: Yellow circles (Bog Trail and Rachel’s Trail) and...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”] Location: White Mountains National Forest, NH Date: May 27, 2012 Distance: 6.6 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 2,050 feet Our Hiking Time: 5.25 hours roundtrip Trail Blaze: Yellow rectangle Difficulty: Strenuous[/box] Though New...
I did not go tent camping as a kid. I grew up in the inner-city, and the closest my family ever came to communing with the outdoors was a trip to some sort of family camp...
We are so fortunate to have a national system of almost 400 protected historical, urban, and natural sites spread throughout our country. Since 1916, the U.S. National Park Service has provided the world with many...
Now that we have a toddler, Kendra and I are always on the lookout for local kid-friendly hikes. We had a free morning today, so we decided to check out Ward Reservation, which is...
Today Kendra and I took Addie on her first hike of the year! We went with my sister Kim, her three kids, Grace, Eoin, and Bria, and our friend Christina, to one of our...
Today we went hiking with Kendra’s parents. Boris drove us all to Sumter National Forest in Walhalla, South Carolina to hike the Yellow Branch Falls Trail. One of two National Forests in the state,...
Today was unseasonably beautiful in Massachusetts. The temperature was in the high 50’s, and while many people were doing Black Friday shopping (my wife and sister included), my brother and I took Addie and...