03.22.13 “There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out…” – Charles Bukowski, The Last Night Of The Earth Poems On Tuesday, Mount Monadnock was blasted with 14 inches of fresh snow. Wednesday was the first day of Spring. You would not know it was now “Spring” around here. Deep snow […]
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Monadnock Weekly Report 03.15.13
03.15.13 “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” – Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes A Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you all this coming weekend. And it is shaping up to be another gorgeous couple of hiking days in the Monadnock Region. While the temperatures may be […]
Monadnock Weekly Report 03.08.13
03.08.13 “Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson We’re a week closer to the Vernal Equinox, a week closer to St. Patrick’s Day, a week closer to Opening Day, and we’re moving our clocks ahead tomorrow night (don’t forget!), gaining more light in our days. But, like I […]
Monadnock Weekly Report 03.01.13
03.01.13 “Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.” –Ernest Hemingway For me, the nature […]
Guest Post: Photographing Pillsbury State Park
When I made the leap to move from sunny Phoenix AZ to New England last summer one of the things I was most excited about was hiking with real trees. Throughout the end of the summer and into autumn I haven’t been disappointed and the trails out here have stolen my heart. As the weather […]
Leave-ing Monadnock State Park
By: Jonathan Rager: Intrepretive Ranger at Monadnock State Park. Photos by: Stamati Anagnostou: Interpretive Ranger at Monadnock State Park. As we get to the back of this short novel of time, we feel the last pages of paper in our interpretive journey at Monadnock State Park almost reach completion. We have deep and enchanting feelings […]
Monadnock Trails Report 10.13.12
After spending two weeks in a land with very few trees and coming back to Monadnock, I was in a Columbus Day weekend management haze, being thrown into the fire of the traditional busiest weekend of the year. It was only earlier this week, after I and the staff survived what turned out to be […]
Hiking some Carter Mountains
By Maddy Hunt, Interpertive Ranger at Franconia Notch State Park My favorite line out of the AMC’s 26th edition White Mountain Guide book is, “The Carter-Moriah Range would be a great deal more prominent among White Mtn. ranges were it not for those neighbors that rise 1500 ft higher across the Pinkham Notch.” Those neighbors, meaning […]
Leaf Peeps and Trail Sweeps: Monadnock State Park
By Jonathan Rager, Interpretive Ranger at Monadnock State Park. Photo credits by Stamati Anagnostou, also, Interpretive Ranger at Monadnock State Park. The gentleman below is deeply fascinated with this leaf. He often ponders and looks for leaves that are full of colorful personalities, much like himself and his fellow intern. Here we have a rarity. […]
Ramblings of a Hiker
By Maddy Hunt, SCA Interpretive Ranger The other day I hiked the North and South Hancock loop located right off the Kancamagus Highway. It was a lovely foggy day in the Whites. Upon firing up my camera on top of North Hancock, it became immediately apparent that my camera’s battery had decided to “check out […]