auntie | June 15, 2017
7.6 miles; Lowell, Chelmsford, and Westford, MA Again with the Rails-to-Trails! So this section was pretty boring. It was a 7-mile-long paved bike trail built on the bed of old New Haven Railroad Framingham & Lowell line. I saw my first BCT blaze since Andover, one of only 2 total. And the BCT breaks at […]
auntie | June 8, 2017
7.83 miles; Andover, Tewksbury, and Lowell, MA This was the best of hikes, it was the worst of hikes… Not actually, but the first half was quite nice, while the second half was both on a bogus trail and in the city of Lowell. So not wonderful. Still, I got it done. The BCT ends […]
auntie | May 30, 2017
6.36 miles; Andover, MA Okay, so I originally planned this as a long 14-mile section, and when I changed my mind and decided to break it in two, I didn’t feel like re-numbering all the rest, hence 7A. This was an interesting section, what with multiple eskers and a cemetery and a kangaroo crossing and […]
auntie | May 23, 2017
10.85 miles; North Andover and Andover, MA Today’s hike was by far the best section to date. The Harold Parker State Forest was absolutely beautiful. It reminded me a lot of Arcadia. And that was only the beginning 3 miles or so. And got my first glimpse of the Boston skyline. And at one point the […]
auntie | May 16, 2017
10.1 miles; Boxford, Middleton, and North Andover, MA I certainly won’t say this will be a favorite section once I look back on this adventure. Firstly, it was a little heavy on road-walking. Which could have been forgiven, had there not been so darned much water in the trail. I was fording lakes and rivers […]
auntie | May 11, 2017
10.61 miles; Ipswich, Rowley, Georgetown, and Boxford, MA This was a long section, made longer still by a portion of the trail which was flooded by a beaver dam (you will notice beavers are kind of a theme in this post). Aside from the road-walking-heavy detour, however, it was mostly in the woods. This section passed […]
