Sometimes you want to move slow, but instead, move fast. Is anything lost from hiking quickly, instead of pondering the trail?
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Mt Washington is known to have its way with hikers, and its weather is notoriously fickle. Sometimes this force of nature is for the good.
Sometimes you don’t know whether you liked something or not, until you’ve had some time to think. And yet, you know everything was fine.
It was windy, almost autumnal, but a fine two day traverse. When you can’t see much through the clouds, what makes it special?
How do you describe perfection? Maybe start with things that are more fundamental. Like a three day hike. Golden sunsets. Stars like diamonds.
The best of life is on Passaconaway, but getting back to the point… what was the question, again?
A hike up Cannon. Can a butterfly’s wings defeat a crazy steep trail? What about two?
You have to take what the mountains give you. But sometimes you find that it’s exactly what you need. The trail provides.
Looking out, looking inward, looking forward, returning to quietude. These are the transcendent moments that draw me back to the forest, time after time.
Why suffer the hardship, the pain, the miles of the Pemi Loop? What’s there? Oh wow, lots.
Wow. When you hike the Osceolas, make room for your mind being blown. What kind of view is there from the summit? More than you know!
Whiteface Mountain (4,020 feet). Sandwich, NH. 2022-06-07 (Tuesday.) Via Flat Mountain Pond, McCrillis, and Rollins trails. 12 miles round-trip. (Includes a “quick” jaunt down Kate Sleeper trail to Downes Brook trail as an add-on.) Approx 3,200 feet elevation gain, not including the 600-odd feet on Kate Sleeper. Temps were warm, in the mid-70s. Winds were noticeable in the trees at about halfway up, a refreshing light breeze on the exposed […]