Recent content by dougbear

Just great. I joined AMC a little more than a year ago. I just upped to family membership and booked my wife and I a couple nights at the Highland Center in February. This is the first time I've used my membership for anything. Snowshoeing is the first outdoor activity Marie has taken a liking...

This is a great excuse to put off Owl's Head. I'll wait until the summit location is certain. This guy Joe I usually hike with wouldn't react well to being led all up and down a trail-less ridge on his Tin Man knees. I could lose my reputation. So far, I have him convinced I'm always right. Heh...

I've never had a dog (unless you want the sad story). I have been very favorably impressed by the dogs I've met on the trails in the White Mts. They are almost always off leash and well ahead of their human companions. If one is coming up the trail toward me, I stop and let the dog come up to...

afka_bob, For me, pushing the envelope means things like progressing from 8-mile day hikes to 20-mile day hikes. We've done about all the short-hike 4Ks. I, and the friends I hike with, will have to either increase the pace a little or get used to the dark. But, failing to notice the snowshoe...

I agree with Carole. Notice the snippet of Dylan lyric below? That sums it up for me. I believe in life-long learning, stretching, growing, improving, pushing the envelope. That's half of what the quote means to me. The other half is respect for life, including mine and those of my hiking...

I voted average. I pass some; I get passed some. The groups I've hiked with have seldom made better than one mile per hour average, but that includes lunch and snacks, views and naps, photography, wildlife study, and whateverallelse. Whatever the makeup of our group, if someone is lagging we put...