• Aircraft,  Hiking,  Landscapes,  photography

    The Forgotten Crash

    This weekend’s Covid-19 hike was like a geocaching adventure, except the geocache was a downed airplane from the 1970s. Luckily, I had the coordinates for the crash site, which made it much easier to find. It is approximately a 1.5-mile trek to the site and only about 600 feet off the Appalachian Trail. I could not find much about the crash site except for a brief description on aviation-safety.net. The plane was owned by a courier service named Jim Hankins Air Services. It looks like they went out of business and was started in the 1950s. Maybe, when the libraries are open again, I will look for a newspaper clipping.…

  • Big Dog Falls,  Hiking,  Landscapes,  Smith Pond,  Upper Valley Land Trust

    New Trails at Smith Pond

    Some of my favorite woods and trails are up along the Smith Pond Brook and Smith Pond. The brook has two of the finest waterfalls in the Upper Valley: Big Dog Falls and Little Dog Falls. The valley up to the falls is like a mini Grand Canyon. The area around the Smith Pond is very diverse with very steep terrain, marshes, many brooks and stream, and a lot of wildlife. When I read a post that the Upper Land Trust had put in some new trails, I had to check them out. You are now able to hike a 5-6 mile loop from Rte 4A up to and back…