Check almost any hashtag or website dedicated to the outdoors and you’ll see one of a handful of stock images: a young, white woman staring wistfully at a high alpine lake; a young dude-bro catching air on a big mountain bike ride; a tale of epic, death-defying adventure in a remote wilderness. For a handful […]
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This is cross-posted from my other website, JessBFit.com. The COVID-19 outbreak has taken the world by storm, causing national, state and local governments to issue unprecedented stay-at-home orders that have changed the way most people live their lives. And while some messaging encourages people to go outside and get some exercise, land management agencies are […]
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The date was highlighted on my calendar: MAY 10. It was the day that I’d fly into the Boston airport for a short visit with my family. It was also the last calendar date I needed to complete the list of 366 hikes. In 13 years I had never hiked on May 10. This was […]
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I’m freshly back from taking a much-anticipated two week road trip. My partner and I spent most of those two weeks driving, hiking, camping and exploring new places. We covered a lot of ground and had a number of diverse experiences. In all those miles of hiking, one theme kept coming up again and again. […]
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For the past eight years, I’ve been participating in my own Thanksgiving tradition. Not surprisingly, it’s centered around hiking. In 2009, I embarked on my first backcountry Thanksgiving. I was thousands of miles from home, with no intention of flying on one of the busiest travel days in the country. I was recently single, overwhelmed […]
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To me, Hike366 is a visual project. Each hike is inextricably linked to the images captured in the field. The Instagram feed is populated with photographs that tell a story. Without a photo, there’s nothing to snag the attention of the potential reader. This is why keeping my photos organized and easily accessible has been […]
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When I first began keeping records of my hiking adventures in 2005, I bought a hardcover blank book. In this journal I recorded stories from the trail, usually written just after the hike was over. I immediately chose a format that went something like this: Date Name of hike Trails included Mileage/ elevation gain/ start […]
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I wasn’t always a year-round hiker. I remember very specifically the day that it occurred to me that hiking wasn’t just a summer activity. I was out on the trail with a fellow hiker that I’d met through a New England hiking forum. We were huffing and puffing up a mountain and I asked him, […]
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