[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Mary French & Hammond Reservations, Andover, MA Date: January 13, 2013 Distance: 1.34 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 92 feet Our Hiking Time: 1.5 hours roundtrip Trail Blaze: White Rectangles & AVIS Triangles Difficulty: Easy[/box] Knowing that the temperatures...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Skug River Reservation, Andover, MA Date: January 5, 2013 Distance: 2.5 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 171 feet Our Hiking Time: 2 hours roundtrip Trail Blaze: White Rectangles (Bay Circuit Trail), Red Circles (Harold Parker State Forest Trail)...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Mary French, Hammond, & Skug River Reservations, Andover, MA Date: December 26, 2012 Distance: 1.7 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: 177 feet Our Hiking Time: 1 hour roundtrip Trail Blaze: White Rectangles Difficulty: Easy[/box] Kendra’s parents are up visiting...
This weekend Kendra and I took Addie, and 18 members of our school’s Outdoor Adventures club, ice-skating on the Frog Pond in Boston, MA. Somehow, despite having both lived in Boston for years, neither...
Last spring I took my students to the Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, MA. It was a great experience, as they had the opportunity to speak with working artists about pursuing a career in...
[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 &...
Today we celebrate our Veterans – we give thanks to Kendra’s dad who piloted a helicopter of the U.S. Army in Vietnam, my grandfather, who served in the U.S. Navy during WWII, and Kendra’s...
[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...
[box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Location: Ipswich River, Ipswich & Topsfield, MA Date: September 17, 2012 Distance: Approx. 4 miles roundtrip Our Canoeing Time: 3 hours roundtrip Difficulty: Easy [/box] I must admit, despite having rowed for over 20 years, I only...
Summer usually equates to vacation time for teachers, yet somehow, Kendra and I have managed to jam-pack our days thus far. As soon as school ended, we both spent a week developing curriculum for...