We finally had a decent hiking Saturday this spring arrive. Sadly my legs weren’t in prime hiking shape due to all the rain happening this spring, impeding my desire to get in mini hikes during the week. This is a trail that needs to have your legs in shape or else the next day (today,…
an empty trail. We had the trails to ourselves most times, lighting may not be the best, but an empty trail is worth it. Today we hiked around Valley of Fire in Nevada and it was marvelous. The road into the Valley was stunning and just when you think it can’t get any prettier it…
Oh yes we did, we planned a get away weekend to Vegas, baby! To hike, not to gamble and see shows, we came for outdoor activities. We landed in Las Vegas late Friday night, all we could see were bright lights everywhere. After picking up our rental car, we headed straight to our hotel outside…
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…
Saturday, September 8 we decided to do a 10 mile lollipop hike in the Monroe State Forest, located in Monroe, Massachusetts. Actually the proverbial “we” was Mike who found the hike, as a trail run race and decided it would be a great hike to do, to get some miles in. We haven’t hike 10…
I needed something new to hike, I needed to return to New England hiking and I needed to get my hiking legs back. Off to the Berkshires we went to complete to easy loop hikes. We arrived in Sheffield around 9:30 and while we loaded our packs on our back, a couple shared some trail…