Day 5 Plan – May 2022 Brush Fire – Damage Check
As soon as I finished my hike last Saturday I was already thinking ahead to next week. My plan on Saturday was to keep working on the 4000’s around the Furnace Brook area to build off my Day 3 hike … Continued
AllTrails Map – Day 4
I really regret not taking the quick side trip to complete the inner track of Eliot Loop. I’ll have to remember to include that when I cap the Challenge off with the Skyline Trail. Part 2 of the hike – … Continued
Video Stream – Day 4
If you haven’t guessed by now, I’m really trying to avoid any post-production video editing because it’s the ultimate time suck. However, as long as I’m using an old iPhone as my bodycam it seems I’m destined to capture the … Continued
Day 4 – A tale of two hikes – Part 2
After we got back to the parking lot at the Trailside Museum, Patricia and Penny had had their fill of hiking for the day. I was given advanced notice that this was likely going to be the case so I … Continued
Day 4 – A tale of two hikes – Part 1
Today’s hike happened in two parts. Part 1 started around 10am at the Trailside Museum with Patricia, Penny, and four Au Pairs from Patricia’s LCC group with Cultural Care Au Pair. The plan was to hike the most popular trail … Continued
Day 4 Plan – Great Blue Hill and Little Blue Hill
Patricia is gathering her Au Pair group for a hike up the popular red-dot trail to the summit of Great Blue Hill on Saturday. She’s an LCC for Cultural Care Au Pair so she organizes monthly activities for the group … Continued
Video Stream – Day 3
The video streams for the first two days of my hiking were bad. Really really bad. I’m not striving for National Geographic levels of adventure video here, but the camera (an old iPhone 6s Plus) should at least be pointed … Continued
Day 3 – Fowl Meadow, Swamp Trail, Orchard Trail, Green Hill Path, and Field Path
Went for my longest hike so far and covered almost 8 miles (or 7.5 depending on which app you trust). Started out at the Burma Trail Parking lot with Patricia and Wesley. No chance of getting lost on this one, … Continued
AllTrails Map – Day 3
Tired. So. Very. Tired. Longest one day hike so far. Took a little over 3 1/2 hours but it was great day for a hike.
Burma Road and Fowl Meadow Plan
The ranger at the Trailside Museum advised me to walk the trails along the outskirts of the Blue Hills early in the season because they get overgrown and harder to follow by summer. So this weekend I’m going to tackle … Continued