4 incredible hours. Geology to knock your socks off. Bloodroot, hepatica, maidenhair spleenwort, badboy Norway Maple budding , Rattlesnake Plantain, and a long list of plants that aren’t in the photos. The Connecticut River. 7 hikers on a log. X marks the spot of ….? We’re not sure. One Hobbit. One 7th Grade class from… Continue reading

First have a look at photo 2, It’s my sidewalk at 8 this morning: Icy conditions and predictions for snow and freezing rain kept us from hiking today. Now let’s deal with photo 2 and our assignments. If you’ve received this email, your job is to get me working. I’ve been dragging my feet all… Continue reading

Today’s hike was a celebration of friendship, of not having to wear snowshoes or spikes, of it not being below freezing, of dodging invisible sinkholes in the path as the road is thawing (you’ll see that Tony went down over his knees in one), of keeping the high spirited dogs in line (sort of)), of… Continue reading

What a beautiful “in between seasons” day today.We needed spikes because of a lot of icy climbs on snowmobile trails that were partway down to leaves and earth, part corn snow, and part ice. We were in lots of open fields with climbs in wooded areas. The trail followed the California to Boston underground Cable… Continue reading