An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

Category: Journeys

  • A Road to Disappointment

    Your old buddy Jack doesn’t usually post thoughts on the daily prompt. Being a minimalist he finds this one particularly irksome. If I may, I shall indulge in a short rant. Jack is no longer a young man, and though he needs glasses to read, he can see the forest for the trees. Rather than…

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    snowpackjack
    automobiles commute on a bridge cast in shadow of the sun overhead.

  • Photo Friday: Texas

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    Marco was ahead of me, leaning over against the wind. The road was straight as an arrow, the steady current of cold air forcing us to counter steer constantly.

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  • Carters at Dawn

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    Steam Fog along Nineteen Mile Brook Trail, New Hampshire, USA Rising early, we carried light packs and wore trail runners. It would be a very long hike traversing the Carter range. The pond along the trail at the base of the mountains is warm in August, but the cool mountain air descending into the valley…

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    fog rises above a mountain lake at dawn. Dead trees stand in the lake, surrounded by live firs. green shrubs are in the foreground.

  • Block Island’s North Light

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    North Light, New Shoreham, Rhode Island USA The sand was hot. I had removed my shoes and socks for the long walk out to the lighthouse, but began to reconsider. Arriving by ferry to Block Island in the morning, I chose to walk out of Old Harbor and rent a bicycle to get around. There…

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    snowpackjack
    A granite lighthouse is centered on the frame under a blue sky. a sand path leads to the lighthouse surrounded by green sea grass and shrubbery.