An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

Tag: exploring

  • A Walk in the City of Lights

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    You are standing beside me in this photograph, viewing the landscape. You know where you are, Oui? This is a hiking blog per se, but your old buddy Jack gets around wherever his two feet can take him. I have a special place in my heart for the city of Paris. I’m not a local,…

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    Two cyclists stand on a bridge overlooking the Seine river in Paris, France. The Eiffel Tower can be seen in the background.

  • Rockport, Massachusetts

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    I didn’t visit Rockport by chance. If you’re thinking I wanted to photograph Motif#1, the most popular building in America painted by landscape artists, It’s not true, but let me explain…. I had made the trip out to Gloucester and Cape Ann to capture “Ann’s Eyes”. The twin lighthouses on Thacher Island. The Thacher lights…

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    A bright red building sits on a wharf in the left side of the image. the harbor is calm in the last light of the day. A lone sea gull floats on air currents overhead.

  • Megalloway

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    Awake before dawn, I was wrapped in my sleeping bag and some extra blankets. I was warm and didn’t want to get moving. The rental I was driving had more than enough space for sleeping with the seats folded. I was literally “car camping”. This far north and being fall, temperatures were too cool for…

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    Pink predawn light reflects on a silhouetted mountain in the distance a calm wide lake stretches out in the foreground of the image.

  • Walking on Baby Heads

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    The image above does not do justice to the smooth round rocks that I navigated throughout my multiple river crossings in hiking to the summit of the Tripyramids in New Hampshire. Two of Three Two of the three Tripyramid peaks are must haves when peak bagging the 4000 Footers of New Hampshire. Both North and…

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    A view of the white mountains in New Hampshire from an ascent of one of the Tripyramids. A dark blue mountain range under scattered clouds and a blue sky. the lower half of the picture is framed in fir trees.