Our four mile hike today took us into the Lyme Corner Trails in Connecticut. This area consists of Hartman Park, Walbridge Woodlands and Philip E. Young Preserve. We only did about a third of the trails in this complex of preserves, parks and woodlands. There are four different parking areas for this trail system on…
I’ve been eyeing the Pisgah State Park for a few years. When we used to travel up to the White Mountains to babysit a friend’s cottage, our meander home to Connecticut would sometimes take us past this state park. I tucked the name away, thinking when our caretaking run was over, this was a mere…
I love when the hardest decision of our day is “where to hike?”. Today was a toss-up between a close and familiar hike, the North and Middle Sugarloaf or a new to us, bit further away hike, the Cooley-Jericho Community Forest. The deciding factor was two blog reports, one from Mountain Wanderer and the other from…
We had a little free time on Tuesday afternoon and wanted a quick new hike to take in. We decided to explore the trails at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington. We had hoped to complete all the trails, but on the day we went to explore all interior trails were closed, so we could only walk…
We were just looking for a small easy hike, away from Columbus Day weekend popular trails full of people. The trails around Mossy Glenn, Randolph, NH were just perfect, beautiful, easy, and away from the crowds. The hardest part of this hike was finding the proper…
When it is hot as Hell, as it is up north currently, where should one hike? Might as meet the devil at his playground, The Devil’s Slide in Stark, New Hampshire. We knew today’s condition would match or exceed yesterday’s hazy, hot and humid weather. We opted for a short hike, further up north, hoping…