Adventures on trails in New Hampshire, wandering the trails near wildlife-rich marsh areas, climbing challenging ascent’s and scrambles of open exposed rock faces, hiking the summits in the Belknap, Monadnock, and White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Visit the hiking blog
Shop Store
Rocky Point @Lake Massebesic
I went down the rocky point fire road today to see what rocky point was all about. It was not…
Locke Hill Loop
Myself, Brian and my grandson Alden did this loop hike to several fantastic viewpoints of Lake Winnipesaukee and surrounding area.…
Purgatory Falls
The images in this post were taken with a Canon EOS-70D and a 10-18mm wide angle lens at 20 megapixels.…
Mount Grand Monadnock
This is from the archives… I hiked Grand Monadnock with my grandson Jack back in 2014. We had a great…
Tower Hill Pond
Tower Hill Pond 2016 Tower Hill Pond 2018 USGS Topo Map of Tower Hill Pond https://wildlife.state.nh.us/maps/topo/documents/Topo_16607.pdf
Massebesic Lake
Just a look back to this past spring (Monday, April 24, 2017) on trail near lake Massebesic in Auburn NH.
Franconia Falls
Franconia Falls at Lincoln Woods. This was an interesting hike with spots splattered with rail trail moments of being bored…
The Pawtuckaway Mountains
Pawtuckaway State Park North, Middle & South Pawtuckaway Mountains are 3 different peaks around the caldera that is Pawtuckaway Volcanic…
Rattlesnake Mountain
There are 2 Rattlesnake mountain peaks in NH one in Center Sandwich NH and this one in Rumney NH which…
Manchester Cedar Swamp Preserve
The Manchester Cedar Swamp is a 602-acre ecological preserve, owned by the NH Nature Conservancy in New Hampshire, it is…
Little Massebesic early spring/mud season hike
March 3rd, 2020 – it was actually 61° today. I went on a short hike to Little Massebesic lake to…
Kuncanowet Town Forest
The Kuncanowet Town Forest is located in Dunbarton NH and is a designated Conservation Area that derives its name from…
Frankenstein Cliff and Arethusa Falls
The Frankenstein Cliff trail-head is located in Crawford Notch State Park and parking is right off the highway directly on…
Heads Pond -Hooksett NH – Great Blue Heron 09212019
Heads Pond -Hooksett NH – Great Blue Heron 09212019 After having driven by this location, probably thousands of times in…
Mount Belknap
This was a fairly easy hike on a damp and foggy day. The fire tower was in a low cloud…
Icicle’s before the storm
Icicle: A hanging, tapering piece of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water. I managed to get out for…
Mount Uncanoonuc
From the archives… In May of 2016 we hiked the up the incline trail then across the summit trail to…
“Old Man of the Mountain”
On May 3, 2003…… Freezing and thawing opened fissures in the Old Man’s forehead. By the 1920s, the crack was…
Mt. Waternomee B18 Bomber Crash Site
Mt Waternomee 2535 ft. This hike was not to the summit of Mt Waternomee but to the crash site of…
Pulpit Rock – Bedford NH
The big (no pun intended) attraction of this area is Pulpit Rock, a huge rock formation that was created by…
Blood Mountain
Site of AT6 Texan Plane Crash, this hike required driving on a rough dirt road to get to the ‘trail…
Falling Waters
This hike was started in late afternoon, did not expect to reach summit (Mt Haystack 4760 ft) due to the…
Phyllis Massey Stafford Conservation Area
Phyllis Massey Stafford Conservation Area – Kingston~Danville NH Town Forest. Link to: Conservation easement information Link to: Conservation registry
Mt Belknap 2017
Yesterday, three years ago, Brian and I hiked up to the Belknap summit in a cloud bank with high winds…
