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Hi all, It was a spectacular day up on the Rock Pile Saturday for the annual road race. My wife was running it for the first time. (We both put our names in, but only she was picked!) Anyway, the weather was so nice I was able to get some great shots of the day, including the male and female...

Took a solo hike out to Thoreau Falls, but it turned out Henry was with me the whole way. The essay is here: Walking with Henry The pics are here: Thoreau Falls

Hi Surf, thanks! Yes, my wife said that though the back woods and rolling hills were pretty, maintaining a strict pace was darn hard! And once she got to the mountain, forget it! All that said, she wants to do it again next year! Crazy lady! Dan

Our most recent adventure had my wife running the Pack Monadnock 10-Miler while Janelle and I hiked up the Wapack to meet her at the finish line. What a day! Trail and race report here: By trail and by road! Pics here: Pics

On Sunday, the girl and I continued our 52 With a View quest with a boiling hot hike up Middle Sugarloaf. Here's what we found! Link to the Trail Report: Middle Sugarloaf Link to the pictures: Middle Sugarloaf and Burns Pond

Hi Jay, I used to live down in the Princeton area, but never made it up to Highpoint. It's nice, looks like lots of hiking opportunities! Dan

Last weekend, we took the twins on an adventure to visit some friends in Philadelphia. Along the way, we made stops at the highpoints of New Jersey and Delaware! I thought some folks here might have an interest in our trip report on the highpoints. It's long and covers our whole trip. The...

Hi Michael - Yes, I can imagine how nice that must be in the winter, mellow grades, good snow cover over the ledges! We will have to try it. And she got the hat for Christmas and is quite proud of it. I call her Little Rooster.

Hi Grouse! Yeah, you're right. We kicked around on a bunch of ledges up there, but there's soooo many of them who knows if we ended up on the one you have in mind. It's an amazing summit! We do want to go back and check out that view of Moosilauke in the fall, that would be amazing.

Janelle and I continue our march toward the 52 WAV and Sunday found us in Benton on Black Mountain. Did you ever experience the perfect hike, where nothing went wrong, the weather cooperated and the mountain gave you more than you could ever have hoped? This was it! Our Trail Report and pictures...

Anyone been to Kearsarge North in the last couple weeks? Just wondering if there's any snow/ice issues around the ledges? Last trip report on NE Trail Conditions is January. Thanks!

Thanks everyone! Michelle - I considered beginning with the Fire Tower list as that's a fun one, but once she got a taste of Dickey-Welsh and Monadnock, that was it for her. It's just up, up, up now. I'm not sure how long I'll even be able to keep her to the 52WAV list before she demands an...

Now that there is a nine-year-old hiker in our life who has decided to tackle the 52 WAV list, I was wondering if there is (or ever was) a patch for completion? There isn't anything about it on the Over the Hill Hikers blog so I was just curious. Dan

Thanks Ellen, that's nice of you to say. Monadnock in that perfect weather was just what we needed to get back on track. Also somebody at my work mentioned to me that there was a rescue on Monadnock on Sunday. Anybody heard anything?

After nearly six months away, it felt great to get back on the trails. It was a Grand day for Monadnock! Our trail report and pics can be found here: Monadnock Days

Thanks for your advice everyone, just a quick update. After talking my wife into signing up for the lottery with me, we just got our results today. She got in, I didn't! She's gonna kill me :D Anybody else here make the cut? Anyway, I wrote a quick blurb on it at out website: Road Race Update

Hey Ellen and Ricky, come to think of it, I had heard about the pinch in reference to a cat we used to own who was getting old. The vet pinched his skin near his shoulder blades and discovered he was dehydrated. Hmmm, will have to try that on myself from now on :) And nope, that's not something...

Ok, so here's a tale of something we all deal with, usually in the mountains though! On Friday I got a pretty sudden and nasty swollen throat to the point of having trouble swallowing. Doc said it was some kind of viral infection like Strep and put me on anti-biotics. BUT, since I could barely...

Thanks for the shout out Mark! Hey Rick, my wife and I did a unguided trek to Base Camp and Kala Patthar in 2010. We have tons of details (likely more than you need) at our website. I'm happy to help you with any other details or questions you might have, though we can talk through PM or even in...

Thanks everyone! So to sum up: run up stairs! Alot! Looks like have a walking break or two would be helpful. John: How did you end up doing? Did you set a goal for yourself during training, did you run a half or full marathon before hand o was Washington your first big race?