Last weekend we were frozen in snow and ice, today it’s 70 and raining, it may snow again Wednesday but it definitely will be cold again. Real cold. But this weekend is looking hiking perfect. Temperatures Saturday will be around 50, in the upper 30s Sunday, all under mostly sunny skies. So no time to quibble: you need to get out.

Our Piedmont Explorer group kicks off its 2018 season Saturday with a 7-mile hike at Medoc Mountain State Park, the focus of today’s Nudge. It’s the first in a monthly series of hikes intended to showcase the best hiking in the Piedmont you may not have done. Learn about that series here, discover more hiking in our GetHiking! program here.