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Hike! A personal need prompts a family to action
Damien Fernandez, hiking this past weekend at Horton Grove Nature Preserve For the next few weeks, we will profile hikers new to the trail. Most of the hikers you’ll read...

A Walk in the Woods, part II: Great trails for beginning hikers
So you read our post last week about launching your hiking career — if you didn’t, hit pause and go here, then come back — and were intrigued. You’ve let...
This fall, let’s take a walk in the woods
There’s a scene in “A Walk in the Woods,” the screen version of Bill Bryson’s memorable 1998 account of his common-sense-plagued hike on the Appalachian Trail, in which Bryson (played...