It’s been an unusually active bear season this year, so when I arrived at the Spring Road Trailhead for Pond Parish today—a trail I’ve probably hiked over a hundred times—I had a brief thought that maybe today is the day I run into a bear. Mind you, I’ve never seen one out there, but I…
Tag: hiking
Stop Waiting and Go
Sometimes, for the big stuff, we wait too long. We wait for “the right time,” but it never comes. Or we wait for others to be able to join us on that special trip, but the calendars never align. Or they do eventually, but years after you wanted to go. Similarly, for us climbers, we…
A Window for Bald Peak
On Saturday I found myself in that odd scenario where the kids and wife are all off doing their own thing, and I have an afternoon to kill. So, after taking care of a few work items that carried over from Friday, I got the urge to expend some energy in the only place that…
What in the Blazes?
Well, I learned a new one this week. And I didn’t have to go far to learn it. Not too far from where I live is a place called Patch Hill, with a small network of trails. You used to be able to climb to its summit, but someone bought it a little while back…