After having spent our first month in Boston mainly by buying furniture and organizing everything it was finally time to leave the big city and look for some hiking trails... We decided to go to New Hampshire in the region of the White Mountains national forest. The highest summit of the White Mountains is Mount Washington, which...

Summer comeback this weekend in New England! Perfect weather for my second american hike. Since I did not want to get up too early I decided to explore the region of the Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire. Only two hours away (by car)from Boston. I started my ascent to the summit at the state park main entrance, close to the park...

Why did we choose to go to Mount Kearsarge? Simply because it was supposed to be one of the nicest peaks in New Hampshire... but nobody told us how ridicoulously easy it was to get up there. We started our relaxing walk at the official Rollins state park lot following the Rollins trail to reach the summit. 40 minutes and we were...

After a Winter that never started, this was definitevely the first Spring weekend on the US east coast. We decided to go hiking for the second time in the Bear Brook state park, close to Concord in New Hampshire. Like the first time we parked the car close to the park entrance and followed the Bear Brook trail along the river. At...

In the last weeks I was reading again and again Hikr reports really missing the Swiss mountains and the awsome hikes there.... Anyway as long as we stay here we have to enjoy the New Hampshire hills... This timme we decided to explore the Pawtuckaway State park, located closed to the already described Bear Brook state park....

Once more weather forecasts, promising sun and mild temperatures, were completely wrong... Anyway we decided to hike Mt. Monadnock (it was my second time...). During the almost 2 hrs car drive from Boston to Jaffrey the weather changed from clouds to blue sky, clouds again and even snow... We started our hike under a heavy but...

It was time for another hike in the White Mountains... We started from the same place, the Lafayette Campground, but this time we hiked on the west side of the I93. We followed the easy trail to the Lonesome lake and continued along the Lonesome trail direction Kinsman Ridge path. Starting from the intersection with the Kinsman...