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Mud season might limit your hiking adventures but you have other options, we promise.
The transition from winter to spring in Vermont means mud-laden trails and restrictions on where you can hike. Rain and melting snow at higher elevations are keeping many of Vermont s hiking trails wet and muddy, Vermont State Parks wrote on its website. When hikers tramp on saturated soils, they cause soil compaction and erosion as well as damage to the trail and surrounding vegetation.
Fear not! You have alternatives, according to the Green Mountain Club, which keeps a list of substitute hikes to take around the state. The organization recommends checking with the trail s land manager to make sure the location is open.
Married couple Melissa McGrew (left) and Andrew Untch (right) haven t missed the tradition of hiking on New Year s Day since they ve been together. (Quincy Walters/WBUR)
Some people ventured into the new year by venturing into the wilderness Friday. Each year, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation encourages people to go for a hike on Jan. 1. Married couple Melissa McGrew and Andrew Untch haven t missed the tradition since they ve been together. And a pandemic wasn t going to stop them.
The last day of 2020 marked 17 years since they first met by happenstance at a baggage claim at Logan airport. Baggage did take extra long that night, McGrew remembered, standing at an entrance of the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton. We ended up taking the subway.