[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Robert Frost Interpretive Trail, Ripton, VT Date: July 2, 2015 Distance: 1.13 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 65 feet Our Hiking Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes roundtrip Trail Blaze: Blue Diamonds Difficulty: Easy Trail Map[/box] For several weeks this summer,...
Since as far back as I can remember, my family has celebrated 4th of July at my Auntie Debbie and Uncle Jerry’s house. Picture a huge pool party – cousins swimming, uncles grilling, and aunts...
Last week Kendra and I took 16 kids from our Outdoor Adventure Club canoeing in a local state forest. For most of the kids, it was their first time in a canoe. Like every...
Every year on the first Saturday of June, thousands of people across the United States celebrate National Trails Day, an annual event organized by the American Hiking Society. This is a day for folks to...
These days, it’s not often Kendra and I go on an adventure without our kids. When we told our neighbors we were headed to Ramblewild, an aerial adventure park in Western Massachusetts, they joked that it...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Mt. Monadnock, Jaffrey, NH Date: April 24, 2015 Distance: 4.5 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 1,801 feet Our Hiking Time: 5 hours, 8 minutes roundtrip Trail Blaze: White Dot (White Dot Trail) & White Cross (White Cross Trail) Difficulty: Moderate...
A few weeks ago, as the snow finally melted from the sidewalks, we were inspired to find adventure in the everyday by the Hike it Baby 30 Challenge. I started taking the kids on walks...
We love gardening with our kids – it’s a great family activity! Yet for many people, gardening seems like an impossibility, often because they lack yard space, or their soil is contaminated. Once solution is to...
Once upon a time, before we had kids, on the spur of the moment Kendra and I would pull on our hiking boots, grab our backpacks, and head off to hike in the woods....
Location: Leominster State Forest, Westminster, MA Date: February 18, 2015 Distance: 1 mile roundtrip Elevation Gain: 200 feet Our Hiking Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes roundtrip Trail Blaze: White Rectangles Difficulty: Easy Trail Map Freshman year of college I had...