There was no time for mountains today. It’s Tax Day after all, and there’s a bunch of other stuff on my plate, so I couldn’t take time out for a long drive. But I still needed to get the lead out with a little hiking, so before work I explored something a little closer to…
Tag: hiking
Stewards of the Earth
I spend a lot of time out there on the trails. It’s where I go to get some exercise, relieve some stress, and find inspiration for my next set of writings. And every once in a while, when I’m scooting along another cleared path, it hits me like a ton of bricks—there are a lot…
Peakbagging for the Win
Lately with the chaos in the news, A.I. as a potential threat, foreign conflicts, oil prices rising, environmental protections being removed, it feels like every time I head out onto the trail I’m weighed down by this burden of thought—this wonder about how am I going to save the world enough to protect my children…
Rounding Out the Wapack Range Summits
One of my recent side quests has been to climb all of the major summits in the Wapack Range—a stretch of earth popping up over the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Running North, it begins at Mount Watatic in Massachusetts and ends at North Pack Monadnock in Greenfield, New Hampshire. Many thru-hike the Wapack…