Opacum

Some news to start: next month I’m heading on a three night, four day hike through the White Mountains of New Hampshire, staying overnights at the High Huts of the White Mountains with some friends from work. So I’ve been gearing up and doing practice hikes as often as I can. I have yet to do a real tough mountain hike (I plan to hit up Wachusett before the hike, but am not sure when I’ll make it happen), but this Labor Day I wanted to hike several days in my hiking boots to break them in and make sure I shook out any issues. ...

Spring fever is in full swing, and when I found myself with a free afternoon I knew I had to spend some of it in the woods. I debated my options for a while but ended up returning to Opacum Woods, a site I’d been to a few times before (last time, with Jess, was in the fall). ...

Another Saturday, another Saturday hike! We had to suffer through some rain for this one, though. We decided to explore Opacum Woods, a property held in trust by the Opacum Land Trust. It’s a beautiful wooded area located behind a nice neighborhood in Sturbridge. It fills the corner made by the connection of Interstates 84 and 90. At the trailhead we met some folks from Opacum who were closing up shop; earlier in the day they had officially opened up a new bridge built as an Eagle Scout project and were handing out new trail maps. They gave us one of the new maps; a definite improvement on the one we had picked up when we ran into them at the Big MOE. ...