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...
I love taking my Outdoor Adventures Club students into nature! It’s a great opportunity to get to know my students outside the classroom, and I love how excited they get when they hike their...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Harold Parker State Forest, Andover, MA Date: March 19, 2013 Distance: 1.64 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 131 feet Our Hiking Time: 1 hour 10 minutes roundtrip Trail Blaze: Dark Green Rectangles...
Addison totally digs owls, so when I read that the Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon in Canton, Massachusetts, was having a special “Hoot Happenings” event this past weekend, we had to go! My...
“Jen… wake up! There’s an animal in our basement!” One would think such a proclamation from my wife would shock me out of sleep, but ever since a few years ago, when we heard...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Amy Gordon Taft Reservation, Andover, MA Date: February 21, 2013 Distance: .54 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 65 feet Our Hiking Time: 40 minutes roundtrip Trail Blaze: A.V.I.S. Triangles Difficulty: Easy [/box] Kendra’s mom, Jane, came to visit us...
Like most of the kids in my urban hometown, I did not grow up communing with nature. As an adult, I have come to seek refuge in the outdoors, and spend a great deal...
I need to preface this post by saying I have never cross-country skied before. When I was a kid, I went downhill skiing a few times, and these days I snowboard, but neither prepared me for...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Mt. Willard, Bretton Woods, NH Date: February 2, 2013 Distance: 4.05 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 1020 feet Our Hiking Time: 4.5 hours roundtrip Trail Blaze: Yellow Rectangles Difficulty: Moderate [/box] This past weekend, I traveled to New Hampshire with the...