[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Weir Hill, North Andover, MA Date: November 17, 2012 Distance: 1.56 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 315 feet Our Hiking Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes roundtrip Trail Blaze: Yellow Circle (Stevens Trail) & Blue Circle (Weir Hill &...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”] Location: Mt. Sunapee, Newbury, NH Date: September 30, 2012 Distance: 4.64 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 1,329 feet Our Hiking Time: 3 hours, 40 minutes roundtrip Trail Blaze: Blue Rectangle Difficulty: Moderate[/box] I had been looking...
For us, Labor Day weekend is reserved for camping. Even though Kendra and I start teaching the week before, we get Friday and Monday off, which makes for the perfect amount of time to...
As more kids spend their time indoors – faces glued to televisions, computer screens, and video games – it is no surprise that researchers are noticing the effect the lack of outdoor time has...
I am amazed what a difference three months makes in a camping experience. In May, we took Addie camping in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and though she enjoyed it, she wasn’t speaking...
[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...