Franconia Brook Trail, Lincoln, NH. 2022-08-12 (Friday.) Via Lincoln Woods, and Franconia Brook Trails. About a dozen miles round-trip. 64 degrees, cloudy. It felt colder out than I’d have preferred. More than one wants to bear? I’d planned on circumnavigating Owl’s Head for awhile. Work had been a bear lately, and so with enough time off to do so, I decided to hike up from Lincoln Woods, spend the night […]
A hike up Cannon. Can a butterfly’s wings defeat a crazy steep trail? What about two?
You have to take what the mountains give you. But sometimes you find that it’s exactly what you need. The trail provides.
Looking out, looking inward, looking forward, returning to quietude. These are the transcendent moments that draw me back to the forest, time after time.
Why suffer the hardship, the pain, the miles of the Pemi Loop? What’s there? Oh wow, lots.
Wow. When you hike the Osceolas, make room for your mind being blown. What kind of view is there from the summit? More than you know!
How often do you start an easy hike, cross a road, and then climb the mountain? Makes a trip memorable, that’s for sure.
Whiteface Mountain (4,020 feet). Sandwich, NH. 2022-06-07 (Tuesday.) Via Flat Mountain Pond, McCrillis, and Rollins trails. 12 miles round-trip. (Includes a “quick” jaunt down Kate Sleeper trail to Downes Brook trail as an add-on.) Approx 3,200 feet elevation gain, not including the 600-odd feet on Kate Sleeper. Temps were warm, in the mid-70s. Winds were noticeable in the trees at about halfway up, a refreshing light breeze on the exposed […]
Wrapping up my Belknap Range Hiker patch on a cloudy day… not much to see far away, but up close there was lots. Flora and fauna, oh my!
Short and sweet, no sweat, but Swett. The Belknap Range is synonymous with fun, for sure. And views aplenty!
Sometimes you need a break. And when you return, you find more than you ever imagined possible.
Sometimes you endure pain and steep terrain for not a lot of expansive views. But sometimes you find something more fulfilling in those moments.