5 Tips for Canoeing With Teens
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...
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National Trails Day 2015 With Tubbs Snowshoes!
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...
Family Adventure at Ramblewild Aerial Park
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...
Hiking Mt. Monadnock in Jaffrey, NH
[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...
Do It Yourself Raised Garden Beds!
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...
How to Find Adventure in the Everyday
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....
Tubbs Romp to Stomp Out Breast Cancer!
When I was a kid, cancer seemed like a foreign subject – something rare and tragic. It wasn’t until it touched my own family that I realized the insidiousness of the disease… too often there are no...
Snowshoeing in Leominster State Forest, Westminster, MA
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...
What Urban Teens Think About Snowshoeing
Snowshoeing is a relatively new adventure for us. Though I had long been interested in the sport, it wasn’t until our students in the Outdoor Adventure Club asked me to take them snowshoeing that I...
Juno 2015 Was the Perfect Storm!
Well, winter has finally come to Massachusetts! Juno 2015 brought us over two feet of snow, and three snow days off from school last week. We spent the day of the storm safely tucked inside, playing...