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…
Category: LeaveNoTrace
One man’s trash … is another man’s trash
Microtrash is always a big problem, and rare is the trip I take without coming home with a cargo-pants pocket full of it. Common offenders are cigarette butts, corners of Clif/Snickers/Nature Valley bars, crumbs of those ubiquitous blue foam pads, and the occasional bandaid. Note, I never pick up toilet paper, so ladies, please try…
Leaving no trace in paradise
Digging through some old hiking photos from Hawaii, I was struck how similar the trail is to New England, despite having probably 1/100 of the traffic. That volcanic soil just can’t take the abuse, similar to the thin layer of soil on top of the mineral soils covering the mountains of the Northeast. Just like…
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…
Walk in the Woods – and bring your flak jacket
It was a beautiful day, so I did some tramping in the uplands behind the property. It’s old farmland, now regrown, and logged for hardwoods about 25 years ago. Great old stone walls, some interesting ruts and leftover trees from the logging operations, and some trails – some manmade, some machinemade, and some game trails….