Posted in Flowers, Hiking on Mar 18th, 2010 1 Comment »
Washington, Connecticut. At the start of a short winter hike up to the Pinnacle Dave and I got distracted by Queen Anne’s lace with snow cones on them.
Note: I’m behind in my uploading, this was taken January 31st of this year.
The flip out LCD on the G11 meant that Dave probably didn’t have to break [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Photo Gear on Jan 8th, 2010 5 Comments »
Hiking the beginning of the Appalachian Trail in Connecticut: Ten Mile River to Bull’s Bridge. This is a nice, 4 mile hike that’s not hard and can be done in snow (like this day).
Me, Loren, and Dave on top of Ten Mile Hill. I used an ultrapod to velcro the G11 to a tree to [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Landscape on Jan 6th, 2010 6 Comments »
Bull’s Bridge to Kent, Connecticut. Dave and I hiked a rugged 7.5 mile stretch of the Appalachian Trail from Bull’s Bridge to Kent. There was 3" to a foot of snow on the ground and it was rough going although it’s one of the most beautiful hikes I’ve done yet.
It took us about 5.5 hours [...]
Posted in Hiking, Landscape on Jan 3rd, 2010 2 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Looking down at the Shepaug River from Steep Rock. David, Loren and I did an eight mile hike in Steep Rock the other day just to revisit the place that got us started hiking. Great day, lots of nice scenery and it was quite cold. Still, nothing like today where the high here [...]
Posted in Hiking, Landscape on Dec 30th, 2009 6 Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. The Connecticut chapter of The Nature Concervency maintains this 800 acre preserve. This day it was 18 F out and the windchill was well below 0. In other words, it was seriously cold. David and I took the two hour hike just to get out and I wanted to see how hiking in [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, People on Dec 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
On the Appalachian Trail between Kent and Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. We’ve done this hike many times recently but it’s so good we decided to do it again to introduce Gary to it before he flies home to Oregon tomorrow. We had a great day, less ice than we thought, more mud but no problem and [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, People on Dec 23rd, 2009 2 Comments »
Richard, David, Loren and Gary on Bear Mountain, Connecticut.
Our friend Gary is visiting for the Holidays and what better way to introduce him to hiking the AT than a quick jaunt in snow up Bear Mountain. The hike went very well but on top of Bear the wind was so strong that a 24 F [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, People on Dec 19th, 2009 1 Comment »
On the Appalachian Trail between Kent and Cornwall Bridge. Dave just got back from the Virgin Islands (poor guy) and Loren and I decided to "break him in easy" with this hike we just did. It’s a great hike, starting at Rt. 341 in Kent and having lunch and turning around at Caleb’s Peak where [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking on Dec 16th, 2009 4 Comments »
North of Kent, Connecticut. Loren and I decided to do the stretch of the Appalachian Trail from Kent to St. John’s Ledges again. It’s a great hike and great hikes are worth repeating. It’s about an eight mile hike total.
When I took this picture I had to take my gloves off and between sitting there [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Landscape, Photographers on Dec 4th, 2009 9 Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. My hiking buddies are each away and I needed to get out of the house so I hiked up on the Appalachian Trail north of Kent and this image is taken just above St. John’s Ledges where I did some rock climbing 20 years ago. The Housatonic River is in the valley behind [...]
Posted in Hiking, Landscape, Places on Nov 29th, 2009 4 Comments »
Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. David and Loren hiked north on the Appalachian Trail from Kent to Cornwall Bridge leaving a car in Kent. I drove to Cornwall Bridge and hiked south to meet them and then we doubled back and I drove them to their car. I was on my own so brought bigger camera gear [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Landscape, Places on Nov 25th, 2009 6 Comments »
Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. The Housatonic River is right behind me as I take this and these are the southern Berkshire Mountains. This stretch of the AT is the longest stretch along a river on it’s entire 2000 mile run, about eight miles on the west bank of the Housatonic. We only did about six miles [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Photo Gear on Nov 17th, 2009 14 Comments »
Northwest Connecticut. Loren, David, and Richard ready to embark on our longest hike yet: a 12 mile trip from Salisbury, Connecticut to Bear Mountain and back on the Appalachian Trail.
This will be a long hike, it will be my first test of the Canon G11 camera, and it will be David’s 52nd time up Bear [...]
Posted in Hiking, Opinion, Photo Gear on Nov 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
Big Sensors, Shrinking Cameras
David Pogue reviews the Canon Powershot S90 and the Panasonic Lumix GF1. Pogue is always a great reviewer because he knows which technical details to include and which to leave out for most consumers.
I’ve been shooting my hikes with the Canon SD1200 IS which is an amazingly good small camera that costs [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking on Nov 11th, 2009 3 Comments »
Southwestern Massachusetts. Loren, David, and I have just climbed up the Race Brook Falls trail and are on the saddle between Race Mountain and Mt. Everett (behind us). We’ve left a car at the bottom of Race Brook Falls and another at Jug End, ten miles north of here.
Loren and David on one of the [...]
Posted in Hiking, People, Places on Nov 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Northwest Connecticut. Dave and I did a quick hike up Bear Mountain and found 30 amazing 6th graders with their teachers up on top. These kids had done a longer walk than we had to get there and they were in great spirits and wonderfully well behaved. Dave tought middle school geography for 39 years [...]
Posted in Hiking, People, Places, Time Lapse, Video on Nov 4th, 2009 No Comments »
The Longest Way 1.0 – one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.
Great time lapse video. Timely given that I’m doing long walks and maybe growing my beard a bit longer.
[via Mamen Saura]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, People, Places on Nov 4th, 2009 4 Comments »
Southwest Massachusetts. Richard, Dave, and Loren about to set out on a twelve mile hike up Race Brook falls, across Race Mountain, down into Sage’s Ravine, into Connecticut, up Bear Mountain and back to Rt. 41 where our second car is parked.
This is a nice hike although we ran out of time and didn’t "summit" [...]
Posted in Hiking, Landscape on Oct 26th, 2009 4 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Took a long walk through Steep Rock Preserve, continuing down to Judd’s Bridge in Roxbury, then back on the other side. Fall colors were spectacular. One of our longest walks yet in this area.
Posted in Adventure, Hiking on Oct 14th, 2009 8 Comments »
Just north of Bear Mountain on the Appalachian Trail we descended into Sage’s Ravine, a beautiful little canyon with a stream and waterfalls.
Note, we have a new member of our hiking party, my wife Anne who did amazingly well her first time out on this strenuous eight mile hike.
We were pretty wiped out on [...]
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