An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

Tag: Travel

  • 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.

  • Peak Above the Nubble

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    This short bushwack in New Hampshire was one of my first trailless hikes for the Hundred Highest list. Having finished most of the blazed and trailed peaks on the list, I had picked most of the “low hanging fruit.” It was time to begin knocking off the hikes that required more care and research. The…

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    Hiker with packpack on a snow covered hiking trail

  • 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.