Tag Archives: family hikes
Mountain spring: hike to North Doublehead
Mountains in spring, breath clean oxygen. Listen: in the spruce, loving birds. I’ve been working with my students on form poems, including haiku. Thus, I attempt to describe a recent hike with a combination of haiku, photos and text. Indulge … Continue reading
Posted in Family and Kids, Hiking, Mountains
Tagged family hikes, NH hiking, White Mountains
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Rangeley Days Redux: Moose, mountains, and memories
Rangeley, Maine – Our first day at the lake was windy and mostly gray, a good one for moose hunting. We don’t always get our moose, but with the right timing and luck, we’d bagged moose last year and the year … Continue reading
Posted in Family and Kids, Hiking, Maine places, Mountains
Tagged family hikes, Maine hiking, Rangeley
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One hike, many discoveries: A plane crash, a fire tower and stone-age couches
Would we find the plane crash? That was the motivating question as I hit the road early one morning in late June with three middle-school boys. More than 40 years ago, on June 18, 1972, a small plane bound for … Continue reading
Intersecting slopes on Mount Chocorua, New Hampshire
As we hauled ourselves up the granite cone of New Hampshire’s 3,478-foot Mount Chocorua, a middle-aged woman picking her way down the granite ledges groaned as she stretched out her legs to ease herself down an especially large slab. My … Continue reading
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Tagged family hikes, hiking, hiking with teenagers, Liberty Trail, Mount Chocorua, Nature, New Hampshire hikes, White Mountains
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Art amidst the mills of North Adams
A decaying mill town on a gray November weekend in an isolated corner of Massachusetts might seem an unlikely destination, but North Adams had been on my radar for a while. The Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art (Mass MoCA) offered intriguing, … Continue reading
Three blogs for hitting the trails
The Arctic Vortex last week offered a good opportunity to hunker down and work on one of my New Year’s projects, which is to improve this blog. To that end, I am participating in the Word Press “Zero to Hero” … Continue reading
Refuge in the sands
As all hell broke loose that Friday in Boston, the beach at Morris Island stretched for miles, empty and unpeopled, like the city in lockdown. Instead of fear, the beach inspired tranquility and an almost medically-induced sense of relief at … Continue reading
Posted in Family and Kids, Hiking, Travels
Tagged Cape Cod hikes, Cape Cod seals, Chatham, family hikes, Monomoy Island, Morris Island, Morris Island Trail
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Winter dreams of summer days on Mount Washburn
On this cold winter afternoon in Maine, I am dreaming about summer days on Mount Washburn. The temperature is even colder today at Mount Washburn, but this past August, we slathered on sun screen and wore shorts and t-shirts when … Continue reading
