Over the holiday weekend I thru-hiked the Rhode Island North/South Trail, a 78 mile path from the Atlantic Ocean to the RI/MA border in Burrillville, RI. Total time: approx 3.5 days Total mileage: approx 80 miles including travel from the trailhead If you JUST want pictures, the full album is here. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”3″ display=”basic_thumbnail”]…
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Looking to improve your hiking performance? Drop some weight
Gear Most people, even active people, could stand to lose a few pounds. While there’s a lot of time spent on gearmongering and swapping steel for titanium, let’s look at what weighs what. “A pound on the foot is like 5 on the back” they say. What about “a pound off the belly…
November hiking – Ampersand, Seymour, Tabletop and Rocky Peak Ridge
Hitting the summit of Rocky Peak Ridge on November 17, 2015, I finished all 46 of the Adirondack High Peaks. 24+ years in the making, done. I can’t believe it, but I’m already planning my next trip – a 5 day traverse of the whole High Peaks region, from Coreys to Elizabethtown. I arrived…
Adirondack Trip – Street, Nye, Allen and Cliff
This past weekend I knocked off 4 more of the High Peaks, all “trailless” – which means no signs, and no maintenance, but hardly a bushwhack. Pics are here: https://vmeps.schernau.com/photos/main.php?g2_itemId=1545 I started parked at South Meadows about a mile from the Adirondak Loj, hiked the road, then climbed up Street & Nye. Generally…
Adirondack Trip May 2015
4 down, 7 out of 46 to go. I got up to Keene Valley at about 10am on Saturday, rented one of those bear cannisters at The Mountaineer, then drove back S to the Elk Lake Preserve to hike Macomb. A nice flat trail, wet, and then the slide started. It wasn’t a pure…