Essex County Elementary School XC Champtionships

Amazing day at Gannon Golf Course in Lynn. Kids ran the the .71 mile XC course in awesome time, never giving up, pacing themselves at the beginning and passing people all the way through. Perfect results winning medals (they only gave medals for the first 10 places) each getting 10th place. So proud of how great they did.
Ethans's Results: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/13/ma/Nov9_1stAnn_set2.shtml
Fiona's Results: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/13/ma/Nov9_1stAnn_set1.shtml

Lynn Woods Fall hike

Went for a nice 4 mile loop in Lynn Woods as a family on a beautiful fall Saturday. Got to walk down into Dungeon Rock and up Stone Tower, someone must open them up on the weekends. Pretty Cool. Ran with both kids down the back side single track of Stone Tower, all the way from the top.

Wolf Pits Hike

Allison, Ethan and I went for a quick 3 mile hike in search of "Wolf Pits" in the Lynn Woods-Fiona was out for her birthday lunch and a movie w/ Gammy. Although I run here all the time, I rarely explore this area of the woods. We found them fairly easily as they are marked on the Lynn Woods map. Supposedly these deep stone lined pits were used in the late 1600's early 1700's to kill wolves. They were about 7 ft long, 4 ft wide by about 7ft deep, back in the day they were baited and covered. The hungry wolves would fall in, evidently it was a very effective method for dealing with wolves which destroyed livestock-Lynn Woods was a large common grazing area for cattle through the mid 1700's. Beautiful fall day, easy flat hike, spent about an hour and half in the woods with a stop for lunch. A Map of Lynn Woods is here: http://www.flw.org/pdf_files/lwmap.pdf  a link to info on Lynn Woods and the "Wolf Pits" is here:  http://www.flw.org/landmarks.html#stone_tower It was a great afternoon.

The first post

We've been camping for a couple years, had some successful hikes. Time to set some goals. Hike all 4000' peaks in the White Mountains. I'm thinking if we chip away at these, several a year, they can go off to college having hiked them all. Here they are all  48:

Rank Name Elev
1 Washington 6288
2 Adams 5774
3 Jefferson 5712
4 Monroe 5384*
5 Madison 5367
6 Lafayette 5260*
7 Lincoln 5089
8 South Twin 4902
9 Carter Dome 4832
10 Moosilauke 4802
11 Eisenhower 4780*
12 North Twin 4761
13 Carrigain 4700*
14 Bond 4698
15 Middle Carter 4610*
16 West Bond 4540*
17 Garfield 4500*
18 Liberty 4459
19 South Carter 4430*
20 Wildcat 4422
21 Hancock 4420*
22 South Kinsman 4358
23 Field 4340*
24 Osceola 4340*
25 Flume 4328
26 South Hancock 4319
27 Pierce 4310
28 North Kinsman 4293
29 Willey 4285
30 Bondcliff 4265
31 Zealand 4260*
32 North Tripyramid 4180*
33 Cabot 4170*
34 East Osceola 4156
35 Middle Tripyramid 4140*
36 Cannon 4100*
37 Hale 4054
38 Jackson 4052
39 Tom 4051
40 Wildcat, D Peak 4050*
41 Moriah 4049
42 Passaconaway 4043
43 Owl's Head 4025
44 Galehead 4024
45 Whiteface 4020*
46 Waumbek 4006
47 Isolation 4004
48 Tecumseh 4003