Left home at 9:15, got home at 4:15 …another perfect day with friends on a famously perfect trail. At the start, Tom and Conrad pondered the locks that were designed to keep something out of entering the trail, but to engineer Conrad seemed particularly ineffective. The new shoots on the hemlocks and spruces were tasty,… Continue reading

Hypnotically gorgeous weather, on a rugged trail, with tricky stream crossings and Spring bursting out all over. First photo is a detail from a huge granite rock with a quartz intrusion. The trail is relatively unkept, and all the more wonderful for it. We had a full 3 hours of great hiking – nothing to… Continue reading

This was such a perfect day that I’m trying to send too many photos! We choose to keep to a “flat” walk. Donna has a broken wrist in a cast and this is the first time she was able to hike with us for a while. First we walked past a picture book New England… Continue reading

This 4.2 mile “in and out” hike to Rattlesnake Knob, in wonderful Spring weather, was an up hill hike on the way in and -thank heaven! – a down hill hike on the way out. Having hiked in Rowe yesterday I am quite ready to hang up my hiking shoes for a few days. Once… Continue reading