I finally caught up my blog and am looking at usage statistics.  For my last nine posts, the most recent first, I have the following "...

 I haven't posted in a while, despite hiking a number of times.  In fact, from October (after healing from abdominal surgery) through De...

 Back in March, I mentioned that I had a coronary artery blockage and needed three stents to be placed.  I was sure that I would be hiking i...

On March 8, a Sunday, I hiked nine miles in the mountains.  While it was not a steep hike, there was continuous uphill one way and downhill ...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! In 2019, I took over 5,000,000 steps, walking an estimated 2,470 miles.  Of this, 422 miles were hiking on trails, the fir...

In a word - undecided.  I've done a fair amount of hiking since my last post, especially leading two Road Scholars groups - one in June ...

I was lucky enough to retire during 2018, and thus got to hike more.  To summarize: 27 hikes total for 356.6 miles. 5 were backpacking tr...

I may never get back to Isle Royale National Park again.  It took me over 40 years to get back after my first visit, it is hard to get to, a...

During my aborted hike along the Appalachian Trail in Shenandoah National Park, I spent the second and last night of the trip at the Pass M...

Ah, nothing like fall: warm, crisp days; cool nights; starry skies; beautiful colors! But on my Raven Rocks hike in Kumbrabow State For...

Although 60 is not the new 30 - no matter who says what - it is true that age is just a number.  Exhibit A: look at the photo below.  It pro...

I recently began reading a great book that I bought a few months ago: "The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide" by Adventurer (the C...

I've read a couple of books lately by people who have done long hikes - one on the Pacific Crest Trail and one on the Appalachian trai...

I've been thinking this week of how I hiked up Tumbledown Mountain in Maine 10 years ago on August 24, and how much that meant to me....

A year ago on this date, a few days after my birthday, I put a battery in my long dormant pedometer.  I thought it would be kind of fun to s...

Anyone who knows me knows that I a fan of Team in Training, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's endurance athletics program to raise mon...

I know that this blog is about hiking, not books, but every now and then, I decide to stray off topic - writers prerogative, I guess.  Today...

Don't you just love topographic maps?  I am planning a trip later this fall, and one of the first steps is to study the map of the poten...

Maybe a dozen or so years ago, my good friend Tom from Weld, Maine gave me a gift that he had made for me.  Out of a piece of beaver wood, h...

Obviously, I love to hike, but I also get a lot of pleasure from just plain walking. Running – well, that seems to be a love – hate relation...