My pulk sled, laden with five days’ provisions, threatens to pull me down the hill I’ve been laboring up for the past quarter mile. I lean forward, dig in with my mountaineering snowshoes, and summon all the strength I can muster to lug this tremendous burden to the top of the hill.
Category Archives: on foot
My 16-year-old and His Friend Hiked Vermont’s Long Trail…By Themselves
This story was originally published on goeast.com. As I watched my 16-year-old son and his friend walk into the woods at the Massachusetts/Vermont border to begin their northbound thru-hike to Canada—alone—I fought the urge to run up the trail with them. Despite my beaming smile and outward excitement, I was still conflicted about whether orContinue reading “My 16-year-old and His Friend Hiked Vermont’s Long Trail…By Themselves”
The AMC Winter Hiking Series Leads to New Adventures
This article was originally published in the Summer 2017 edition of the Mountain Passages. In the pre-dawn hours of Christmas morning, my sons are leaving their warm beds, not to creep downstairs to check their stockings but to don their hiking clothes and collect their pillows to prepare for the trek to Grafton Notch StateContinue reading “The AMC Winter Hiking Series Leads to New Adventures”
Grafton Notch
This article was originally published in the Spring 2017 edition of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Wilderness Matters. Grafton Notch Loop Adventure: How I Discovered the Appalachian Mountain Club Grafton Notch is one of our favorite places. My husband and I visited the area in the summer of 2015 and summited our first 4,000 footer – OldContinue reading “Grafton Notch”
