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The New England National Scenic Trail (NET) is a National Scenic Trail in southern New England, which includes most of the three single trails Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, Mattabesett Trail and Metacomet Trail. After the Metacomet-Monadnock-Mattabesett trail system, the trail is sometimes called the Triple-M Trail. [1]
Backpacking is a form of low-cost, independent travel, which often includes staying in inexpensive lodgings and carrying all necessary possessions in a backpack. Once seen as a marginal form of travel undertaken only through necessity, it has become a mainstream form of tourism.
After a long cold winter, the spring months are a fine time to explore free outdoor attractions, and kid-friendly Boston is a perfect spring break destination for outdoor family activities that ...
A weighted carry from backpacking taxes muscles. [4] A weighted load stresses the shoulders, delts, back, abs, obliques, hips, quads, hamstrings and the knees. [4] Humans can carry weight under 50 pounds (23 kg) in a safe manner, [4] and a weighted carry is as beneficial for the cardiovascular system as a light run, [4] and for exercise, a weighted carry helps avoid injuries.
It continued this tradition from 1871 through 2008 with its annual New England Spring Flower Show. In 1831 the society bought a 72-acre (290,000 m 2) estate called "Sweet Auburn" for an arboretum, garden, and cemetery. Although the horticultural garden never materialized, in 1835 the site was incorporated as Mount Auburn Cemetery. Until 1976 ...
The New England Fifty Finest is a list of mountains in New England, United States, used in the mountaineering sport of peak bagging. The list comprises the 50 summits with the highest topographic prominence — a peak's height above the lowest contour which encloses that peak and no higher peak.
The New England-Acadian forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion in North America that includes a variety of habitats on the hills, mountains and plateaus of New England and New York State in the Northeastern United States, and Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada. [3]