Local hiking

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Pack Monadnock: training hike

Went out with the snowshoes in the foot or so of snow we got yesterday. Nothing huge, just up and down the auto road. The fire tower at the top was being photogenic, so I obliged. There was a lot of ice up there. Footing was fine, though. I’m a bit jazzed that these came out well with no cleaning up afterward whatsoever. Some days I get lucky, and the […]

Quick Hike: Pack Monadnock

Up via Wapack, down via Marion Davis. Partly cloudy, temps in the mid-50s. It was a lovely day to be outside. Weather was very temperate, and the trails were mostly clear. I made it a little over halfway up Wapack trail without ‘spikes on my boots, but at a point, there was section of the trail that was entirely ice, about 75-ish feet long, and if that wasn’t enough, water […]