I am no stranger to hiking in October. In 2003, three of us climbed Mounts Jackson and Webster. The weather that day was a brisk 25 degrees and though we got hit with snow flurries on both summits and during the descent, the impact had been minimal. In 2006, I soloed Carter Dome in late […]

This has been a tough couple of weeks. I thought last week was bad, but this week was rough enough to make me forget last week. Thank God it’s Friday. No shit.
I really can’t relate the scope of all that has happened in the past couple of weeks. Instead I can […]

When I asked Gary what time it was, and he said 3:30pm, we knew we were in trouble.  Big trouble.  Big honkin’ life-threatening trouble.  On one hand, we’d already skirted certain death numerous times on this day.  But now we realized that we were an hour and a half past our safety time.  3:30pm, and […]

On Saturday, September 13, four Zoran employees took part in the Flags on the 48 Memorial Hike in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.  The Flags on the 48 hike is held every year to honor the memories of those killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  It is a living memorial wherein hikers from around […]

I rebuilt my peakbagging list by encoding all the peak information in a Ruby script and then using another Ruby script to generate the HTML that WordPress’ editor is supposed to handle.  It’s not perfect.  It’s missing the statistics and I’m not completely happy with the layout.  But it’ll do for now.
I did add some […]

On Saturday, July 26th, Chuck Rowe and I hiked up Mount Osceola via the Mount Osceola Trail. Well, officially, it’s the Mount Osceola Trail. On this particular day, it was the Osceola Brook Trail.
Last week’s rains left the trail a wet mess, especially the lower sections. There were quite a few mud pools in the […]

I updated my peakbagging list at right. It now includes the mountains of the Wapack Range.

This year’s Father’s Day was the best ever. Because of the Sunday’s nasty weather, it wound up being a full Father’s Day weekend, which probably requires some explanation.
A couple of weeks ago, my wife asked me what I wanted for Father’s Day. Now, I’m not a “Hallmark Holiday” kind of guy, so after […]

Yesterday saw the Boston area’s first snowfall. While it did accumulate, it didn’t last long as the temps warmed up just enough to turn the snow to a light misty rain and obliterate what little had accumulated.
Still, I took advantage of that small window of opportunity by leaving work for an early lunchtime hike […]

I updated my peakbagging list. My goal is to hike all those mountains by my 50th birthday. That gives me 8 years. Considering the sheer number of peaks on that list, it’s an ambitious goal.