Island Adventures

The other weekend, we packed up the canoe and supplies and headed to Long Pond. We’ve been here before and blogged about it 5 years ago: Long Pond. Alden didn’t remember and now revisiting the older blog post, we realize how young he was! The pond was busy with boaters, anglers, and picnickers. We loaded…

Canoeing on Coffin Pond

For years, we’ve driven past and explored the shore along Coffin Pond, with the intent of putting a canoe in to check out the little islands.  Today was the day.  We packed up our gear and headed to the Sugar Hill/Franconia, NH town line on Route 18.  The lot had several other cars, people picnicking,…

Gnomes in the Wood

A couple of weeks ago, Andrew read a story in the newspaper about local residents putting gnomes and stick creatures in the ACT managed Cooley-Jericho Community Forest. This was the first we had heard of it and sounded like the perfect Sunday Adventure. We printed a map and headed over to the parking area off…