Kyle Forest

I've lived and explored and tracked in Tamworth for 8 years now. It's a small town but I've noticed that my routines and habits and attention reduce the size of the town. I tend to walk the same paths, roads, and hiking trails.... and of course I walk them in the same direction. I get caught in the habit of familiarity. I first walk a path in a certain way to explore, did I walk it the same way the next time so I didn't get lost? Maybe I walked it the third time in the same way because it...

Following a light snow from two nights previous, we struck out into the heart of the Ossipee Mountains, and blue skies and a warming sun welcomed us. Just off the road we found some obscured tracks leading to an area we initially thought was a bed but there was a layer of dirt in the middle of the snow pack. And we noticed some feathers sticking out of the ground. We started excavating the area and we kept finding more and more feathers Based on the size of the feathers and the mottled...

The weather showed snow for the two nights prior to the last Bearcamp Trackers outing. Snow is a great substrate. It comes in so many forms and depths and firmnesses, it can be easy, challenging, or nearly impossible. Usually, the day after a storm will yield some tracks- mostly rodent and squirrels, but it seems like many of the animals hunker down the day after a storm. I've heard that they want to let the snow firm up a bit so it's easier to travel on. I went into the outing with low...