I came to the waterfall almost by accident. I didn’t know I was close — I just wanted to get into the woods on a sunny morning …
Read articleRevel in a spring hike up Ragged Mountain
On a late March Saturday I climbed Ragged mountain with a co-worker, a friend of his and an ecstatic dog who came back with mud up to his belly.
Read articleHow to meet a mountain in the rain (August 25 newsletter)
You can see 90 miles from here on a clear day. We can see about 30 feet across the meadow. Up here on the summit of Mount Greylock at the end of a storm, we’re islanded in cloud.
Read articleHiking the Hopper Trail up Mount Greylock — BTW column
I’ve been wanting to Hike the Hopper since the first weekend I lived here in summer. In June 1999, after my junior year, I shared a roomy apartment with college friends on the first floor of a big yellow house on Park Street. I wanted to pick strawberries, and someone […]
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