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Bad beginning

April 28, 2019 - "You all know what this is," I half-told, half-asked a trio of kids who were walking with me on a trek of the Avalonia L...
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Seeing spots

April 24, 2019 - Sometimes you get lucky. And then, sometimes you get very lucky... very, very lucky. This was one of those times. I was...
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Life's a beech... fern

June 08, 2018 - One of the great joys of returning to an area over and over again... over the years... is that you begin to know what to...
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Hepatic semi-hot-spot

April 19, 2018 - It was almost a spring day, and even though the wind still carried a chilly off the Atlantic, the sun was bright and del...
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Back to business

February 03, 2018 - This doesn't look like much, I'll agree—just a sliver of a trail in snow-blanketed woods—but remember: this is a scene I...
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Happy National Trails Day!

June 03, 2017 - After lots of preparation, I arrived at the Avalonia Land Conservancy's Benedict Benson Preserve, my weekly home-away-fr...
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Life's a beech... fern

June 01, 2017 - The damp dreariness continues, but I'm in the preparation phase for an upcoming National Trails Day public walk that I'l...
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Guardians

May 07, 2017 - I think I'm on to something here: no matter how busy and, from a trekking perspective, unproductive the week has been, I...
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One on one

April 22, 2017 - Happy Earth Day! And in keeping with this celebration of our home planet, the Avalonia Land Conservancy, the regional la...
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Hepatica, redux

April 21, 2017 - The drizzle did not stop me. Duty called. I needed one more tune-up hike on the new Benedict Benson Preserve—the very pl...
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Trail working rock star

April 05, 2017 - My 14 year old grandson Ezra, who was, before he developed other interests, a reliable hiking companion, decided recentl...
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Out from under

March 08, 2017 - The day warmed fast after a chilly start, and after I'd gone on a reconnaissance hike to the Benedict Benson Preserve, a...
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