[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Goldsmith Woodlands, Andover, MA Date: September 14, 2013 Distance: 2 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 131 feet Our Hiking Time: 1 hour, 5 minutes round trip Trail Blaze: None – follow the signs! Difficulty: Easy Trail Map[/box] We have...
Kendra’s parents, Boris and Jane, are in town to help us with the twins. Usually when they visit from South Carolina, we go camping, or hiking, or some other adventure, but this visit we’ve...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Mt. Kearsarge, Warner, NH Date: July 24, 2013 Distance: 1.37 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 400 feet Our Hiking Time: 2 hours, 35 minutes round trip Trail Blaze: White Triangle (Lincoln Trail) & White Rectangle (Rollins Trail) Difficulty: Moderate/Easy...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Bradley Palmer State Park, Topsfield, MA Date: July 16, 2013 Distance: 1.16 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 98 feet Our Hiking Time: 1 hour round trip Trail Blaze: Blue Triangles & Difficulty: Easy Trail Map[/box] Sometimes you just gotta...
This little gem of a reservation is literally in the shadow of the more popular Harold Parker State Forest. In an effort to hike through all the conservation lands listed in the Andover Trails...
I row. Not in a canoe – in a rowing shell. I first stepped foot in a boat my junior year in high school. Having been cut from the varsity soccer team, I decided...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”] Location: Mt. Major, Alton Bay, NH Date: June 2, 2013 Distance: 4.14 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 1,168 feet Our Hiking Time: 4 hours, 15 minutes roundtrip Trail Blaze: Blue Rectangle (Mt. Major & Major-Straightback Link...
One of our favorite campgrounds – Dolly Copp – is tucked away in the White Mountain National Forest, just outside of Gorham, NH. Kendra camped here as a young kid with her parents and...
Spring is finally here! This weekend we celebrated the warm weather with a trip to Mass Audubon’s Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary in Ipswich, MA. Our friends Janet and Greg, and their two little ones...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Osgood Hill, North Andover, MA Date: April 27, 2013 Distance: 2.3 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 72 feet Our Hiking Time: 2 hours roundtrip Trail Blaze: Blue Circle (Stevens Trail) & Green Circle (Osgood Hill Trail) Difficulty: Easy Trail...