going in.

"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out.. I found...was really going in." -John Muir

Our days are like our maple sap buckets... over flowing at the brim. ......And so naturally we drop it all and run to the woods. We find great rest in the woods....following the path behind our home, across the North Branch Creek that pours into the Hudson and up the old wagon road through the woods to the place I grew up. We switchback and bushwhack and two miles turns into four and the sun begins to set about the time we reach the corn fields.... the day gone. 

"Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.” -John Muir

Our time in the woods this season is only beginning... we have stacks of guide books thumb marked and some new to us gear trickling in from online finds. We have sections of the ATC highlighted and our anxiousness for exploring is hard to contain. This will be the first year that our oldest will take on the 'dacks High Peaks. I hope to chronicle more of our trips here, as we have scoured for decent sites ourselves exploring our Adirondack backyard and the pickings have been slim for little ones on the trail.

"Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains." -John Muir 

Get outside sweet friends!

Be Well, Miss