Napatree Point

Took a quick and unexpected trip out to Napatree Point in Westerly, Rhode Island the other day. Left the boots in the car and hiked the 3 mile round trip out to the point and back with Nicole. I've been meaning to go here for a few years now but everytime I'm in the area there just isn't time for it or no one in interested.
Besides the annoyingness of having to find parking at Watch Hill an being back before the 2 hour parking time limit is reached (under the watchful eye of retarded looking meter maids) The trip is def worth it, it has everything you could ask for: ocean, secluded beach, crazy bird sanctuary, AND there is an abandoned war for at the end of the point. Completely awesome. Here's some pics, and since it was a beach; no miles to the boots.
Mileage: 3miles (0) added to boots
16 miles on the boots so far.

Hiking the Whites!

I figured I'd start these boots off right and Christen them with a challenge; The White Mountains. A few months ago before I bought the boots I decided to plan a hiking trip to up to the Whites for the weekend. I suckered a couple of my friends into the trip with little knowledge of what they were in for. I had originally planned on hiking Mt.Washington, but after coming to the realization that I haven't backpacked in a few years I should plan somewhat of an easier trip. Completely didn't. I laid out a plan to hike up Mt. Lafayette and head across the ridge to Mt. Garfield and stay the night at a campground, then wake up the following morning and hike out.
The first night we stayed at  Lafayette Place Campground and started the hike Saturday morning.  I have to say Saturday started out great, everyone was pumped, the weather was awesome, then we started hiking. Fucking brutal. Long story short: great trip, awesome views, good company, unplanned trail-side camping, 10 pounds lost, and a bakers dozen of blisters because I neglected to break in the boots save a 2 mile hike* before hiking a bazillion miles strait in them. So hopefully these SOB are broken in because this blog won't last long if they treat me like that again. Thanks to everyone that went! Here's some mileage stats and a few pictures from the hike.
Miles: roughly 13-14miles
*Add 2 miles for a total of 16 on the boots because I hiked a small trail down the street from me called Appian Way, nothing to report besides it was.... Ehhhh.

Outline of hike we took.....It was a bit long that the averaged miles.

Mike looking out on Franconia Ridge

Franconia Ridge

Complete Badasses

Cairns

Giggling

Disgusted

Totally pumped at this point.

New Boots, New Blog!

I recently purchased a new pair of Hiking boots after my old pair exploded on me while hiking Mt. Monadnock last month. The last pair of boots I had lasted for roughly 10 years, making it through hiking in New Mexico, California, New Hampshire and a laundry list of other states. Shortly after these boots shit the bed I got to thinking, " I wonder how many miles I actually hiked in these over the years?", And that got me to thinking about a way I could keep track of how much I hiked in my new boots.
I've tried to start countless blogs on photography and travel in the past but each time I've lost interest and I started to wonder if there was anyway I could tie the two ideas together. I wanted to create a place where I could chronicle my travels through photography, and I figured what better way than to start a blog for my boots listing where they have traveled and how many miles they have hiked, all the while describing the trips and showing the pictures i took. So there you have it, that is why I am starting this blog, to write about my travels and photography and keep track of the distance my new pair of boots have traveled, so if you bored and don't mind some shoddy writing skills, please feel free to follow along.