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The second clause about "addition of existing travel corridors to the National Forest Trail System when for resource protection purposes" immediately made me think about the Black Pond "Bushwhack".

I started doing volunteer trail maintenance in 2023 with the USFS and during training it was communicated to me that blazing is still part of the job.

As part of a two-day backpacking trip, I did the loop of the Thoreau Falls, Wilderness, and Shoal Pond trails on a glorious Sunday morning last summer. I am quite sure I was the first person through there in a day or two based on the number of cobwebs I ate along the way.

Running Shoal Pond Trail in spring conditions? There's no accounting for taste, I guess. More seriously, I wonder if family had an itchy trigger finger on the rescue call because they knew the runner was going to be on remote trails that are very far from a trailhead, and that get very minimal...

This was my immediate reaction as well. The captions under the pictures seal it for me.

I saw a deer in Somerville about 5-6 years ago! My dog was dealing with something that turned out to be a tick-borne disease and had a week where she needed to poop at around 3:30am every night. We ran into a deer in the middle of the street about one block from Ball Square. I was pretty...

I think this is an important comment. I believe that addressing issues of racial injustice is important in society. I also believe that white folks interested in addressing racial issues should listen to what the preponderance of nonwhite folks want rather than making assumptions and/or...

If we want to split hairs, there's a difference between the actual summit of Mt. Meader and a ledgy area accessed via a short spur from the Meader Ridge Trail. The ledgy area offers nice views. I'm not sure if the actual summit has any views because I didn't bushwhack up there.