Both Pachaug and Tippecansett are real words. In southeastern New England, there’s a lot of words like this. It reminds me of a time in Providence when some obvious tourists asked me the names of the rivers. “The Mohassuck and the Woonasquatucket”, I said, to which they replied, “Oh, come on!”. This was one of…
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LT17 – Johnson – 222
Sep 18 – Day 12 Into and out of Waitsfield, with a long stopover at Three Mountain Coffee. After dillydallying as long as i could, I started walking to theedge of town where the road made an obvious split north. Plus, I feel that hitching from th outskirts of town is less likely to draw…
LT7 – Inn at The Long Trail – 104
Long Trail hike week 1.
Blue Hills End2End2End
To celebrate the beginning of Summer, and to take advantage of the long days, I drove up to Massachusetts to knock off a long-held goal of mine, a traverse, and back, of the Blue Hills park. Map is here. The Blue Hills are a 7000 acre preserve just outside Boston, in fact, for much of…
PCT Hiking by the numbers
Now that I’m off trail and home for a bit, I’ve been doing some thinking about the trip as a whole. People ask me “what was it like?” and I reply, lamely, “awesome.” It’s hard to summarize or boil the experience down in a way that doesn’t trivialize it, but I’m going to try. Since…