Today we made it 5.7 miles from route 202 to route 141 in Holyoke. It was another beautiful day, with some gorgeous views, especially from the basalt cliffs overlooking Westfield.
We saw a number of butterflies, including a Tiger Swallowtail, a Black Swallowtail, a Mourning Cloak, and a pierid, probably virginiensis, though I didn’t get [...]
We hiked 4 miles today on the fourth section of the Monadnock-Metcomet trail. It dumped buckets of rain just before we set out. We stayed mostly dry through a few sprinkles during the hike. Unfortunately, our house leaked a little as the roof was being replaced this morning. It looks like [...]
We did the third section of the M&M trail on Friday. Here are our intrepid hikers set to go with their walking sticks:
The spring wildflowers have really started to bloom. The purple trilliums were especially beautiful. We noticed several that looked to have been munched off just below the leaf whorl.
We found a [...]
We’ve just started hiking the Metacomet-Monadnock trail, a 114 mile hike beginning at the Connecticut-Massachusetts border, winding through the hills of western Massachusetts, culminating at the top of Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire. The trail is conveniently broken up into short pieces which makes it possible to hike it with children. We’ve done [...]
