auntie | September 27, 2012
6.82 miles ★★★★★ beautiful hike. just gorgeous. crosses many streams over pretty bridges, different kinds of forests, from pines to oaks. nothing too strenuous. it was just what i needed today. a nice, long day in the woods. to get to this sign, you have already walked about a mile into arcadia. this is right […]
auntie | September 19, 2012
4.91 miles ★★ great name, crummy hike. first, i got lost and had to do considerable back-tracking. then, the roar of route 95 was never lost, not to mention the part of the loop that was actually on the shoulder of the highway (a very small part, but still). also, there was some bad walking […]
auntie | September 6, 2012
4.22 miles ★★★★ arcadia again. this time i thought i’d explore the trails between route 165 and breakheart pond. i avoided the west branch of the jb hudson trail, due to a bad past experience, and went north on the west bank of breakheart brook instead. beautiful trail! i made a couple of wrong turns, […]
auntie | September 2, 2012
3.18 miles ★★★★½ back to stepstone falls, this time with a friend. unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of water in the falls river right now, so it was far from impressive. but my friend really liked arcadia, and i’m sure we’ll be back again. there was a lot of partridge berry along the ben utter […]
auntie | August 24, 2012
1.63 miles ★★★★★ as promised, today’s big surprise is that this is my 100th day hiking in 2012. when i started this in january, i had no idea it would become such an obsession and source of pure joy. the original intent was just to get out and walk for my health, and with luck, […]
auntie | August 20, 2012
5.51 miles ★★★★½ back to arcadia. this time i took the alternate loop from the last time i was here in the southern part of arcadia. if you overlook a bit of road walking, this was a great loop. the first part of this trail goes right under route 95. it kind of tickles me […]
