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Hiking and Backpacking

Kinsman Ridge Trail north

November 9, 2024
Emilie Phillips

We actually did stuff in November, I was just too busy at work to find time to post about it. This was a half day hike we did starting from the Cannon tram parking lot. The trail itself was awfully washed out. In places we were hiking up a gravel canyon as deep as my […]

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Mount Eisenhower and Pierce

October 19, 2024
Emilie Phillips

The leaves have long since turned colors in the valleys and dropped on the slopes of the White Mountains. Last weekend, it snowed on the higher summits. Fall is marching on its inevitable path to winter. Except Saturday was sunny and almost 70F in the mountains. It made for good hiking weather when Benoît came […]

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Kinsman Falls

October 14, 2024
Emilie Phillips

Monday was undeniably not a soaring day. It poured rain overnight. Then drizzled all morning. The clouds choked every valley, and there was no hint of the mountain peaks. A good day for a hike. Oh, and the temperature was forecast to stay a clammy 45F all day long. We picked Basin Cascades and Kinsman […]

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Mt Flume and Mt Liberty

September 15, 2024
Emilie Phillips

I hadn’t expected much of a hike whose prime distinction was being just south of the famously crowded Falling Waters, Lincoln, Lafayette loop. But Tyson had done his research well. The Mt Flume and Mt Liberty loop was a fun hike. The most important question of the hike is, what are these things? The ground […]

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Dogtown and Babson’s Boulders

August 18, 2024
Emilie Phillips

Tyson had picked out a hike in the Belknap range, but then we woke up to rain. According to the radar, more rain was coming up from southwestern Massachusetts and heading in the direction of central New Hampshire. Undeterred, I pulled out my maps and guidebooks. Eastern Massachusetts might stay dry. Tyson and I ended […]

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Franconia Falls

July 18, 2024
Emilie Phillips

All three of us hiked up to Fanconia Falls on Thursday as a fun family event before Isaac went off to summer camp. The hike is 3.5 miles each way, mostly on a wide, gravel railroad grade. Isaac was really excited to show me the deep kettle hole and a wide slide down into a […]

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Bald Head Preserve

July 19, 2024
Emilie Phillips

Friday morning, we were ahead of schedule for dropping Isaac off at camp, and the road ahead was closed for a traffic accident. So we detoured to a hiking spot just east of Bath Maine. Squirrel Point in Arrowsic Maine. According to the internet, it’s 4.4 miles to hike both to Bald Point and to […]

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Return up Happy Canyon

April 23, 2024
Emilie Phillips

This is the second day of our short backpack down Happy Canyon during our 2024 Trip to Utah. No bovine molested the campsite by the Dirty Devil overnight and we woke well rested. However, we anticipated a long hard trudge returning to the airplane. First there were the water holes; then we would be hiking […]

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Hiking is easy to do with a family. All you need is a pack with the 10 essentials, and a plan for where to go. When we aren’t doing something else fun, you’ll find us relaxing with a nice hike, or going on a multi-day backing adventure.

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