I’ve not been sleeping well lately, so I decided that if I slept in today, so be it, but if not, I would just get up and go on a nearby hike...

If you are like me, you love mountains. Did you know that in Appalachia, mountains are being destroyed on a huge scale? The method of mining...

Five years ago, August 24, 2003, also on a Sunday, I was standing on top of Tumbledown Mountain in western Maine. Now, we are not talking Mo...

In my other blog, Racing for a Cure, my primary focus is my marathon and fund raising activities for Team in Training, starting with the 200...

August 5, 2008. On Tuesday, my brother drove me to east-central New Hampshire where Mary and a couple of friends picked me up from Maine. On...

August 4, 2008 Unlike Modeste Mussorgsky’s rather demonic composition, “A Night on Bald Mountain” , our day on Bald Mountain in Antrim, New ...

August 3, 2008. When we woke up Sunday morning, we were all just a bit stiff and tired in the legs from the tough hike the day before, so we...

August 2, 2008. Mount Monadnock in Southern New Hampshire is only 3,165 feet elevation but feels and looks much higher. For one thing, the t...

Well, the original idea was to backpack in Baxter State Park in Northern Maine for four days. My brother Nur, sister-in-law Martha, and I ha...

July 19, 2008. While not really a hike, I had to be in Kentucky for a couple of days for personal reasons and decided to see a bit of the hi...