Passeggiata. It’s an Italian custom of taking a stroll, especially after the evening meal, usually in the neighborhood. Among other things, it aids digestion. But really, it’s just a swell way to end the day. Though not necessarily a sweltering summer’s day, especially if you live in the South.
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It’s spring! Here’s how to avoid crowded trails
It’s always been a goal to hike the trails less traveled. It’s a goal we’ve embraced with extra gusto over the past two years.
Quick recap: hiking was pretty popular prior to March 2020, it became the go-to source of not only outdoor recreation, but recreation of any kind after March 2020, it being deemed the only safe form of recreation in the face of a global pandemic. While hiking no longer bears that mantel, scads of folks who discovered the joy of hiking over the past two years aren’t going away. And the beginning of spring is when you really begin to notice the increased number of hikers on the the trail.
GetOut! This weekend’s snow report
Here’s the snow report for this weekend:
- Merchants Millpond State Park, Gatesville: Trails will be covered with a base of 3 to 5 inches.
- Pettigrew State Park, Columbia: Trails should have a base of 2 to 3 inches
- Umstead State Park, Raleigh: 1 to 1.5 inches
- Eno River State Park, Durham: 1-1.5 inches
- Hanging Rock State Park, Danbury: 2-3 inches
Seems like we should start making this a regular feature in our Thursday GetOut! weekend planning advisory. For have we ever had three weekends in a row with snow? The folks here in the GetHiking! Weather Center can find no record of that happening before in the Piedmont (though our records only go back 10 years). Anyway …
GetOut! It’s another weekend!
May Day! May Day!
You could take that two ways. But let’s go with the fact that it is May Day, the first of May, which means that both March and April of 2020 are in the rearview mirror. Yay.
So what does it mean, it being May in the age of coronavirus?
Explore Your Neighborhood: A Guide
With your world essentially shrunk to your neighborhood, there’s never been a better time to get out and explore your immediate surroundings. Our coverage in the spring of 2020 has focused on this topic, on how to help you sate your love of adventure — within 10 miles or so from home.