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I plan on using gaiters in Scotland to keep the bottom of my pants from getting soaked when walking over boggy ground. Since, I’m going to use trail shoes instead of boots, gaiters will also keep rocks and sticks from getting into my shoes. I like higher style gaiters because they don’t fall down and bunch up around the ankles. …

    Someone once told me that backpacking trips start well before you start hiking. Isn’t that the truth? Just planning and preparing for a 1 or 2 night weekend trip takes me at least a week of mornings and evenings, before and after work. Once I nail down my route plan, finalize my gear list, and decide on a …

Nature Girl and I took a run at the Tripyramids on Saturday, trying to bag the North (4,180 ft), Middle (4,140 ft) and South (4,100 ft) peaks. We hiked in on the lesser used Pine Bend Brook Trail in order to climb the North Peak first, instead of using more frequently traveled Sabbaday Brook Trail, which is a longer but …

One of the great spectacles of spring in New England are the waterfalls and streams that dot the countryside. Fed by snow-melt these turn into monstrous torrents in spring and make spectacular viewing. Here are a few of my favorites. Thoreau Falls is located just off the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire (Upper and Lower). Ripley Falls is located just …