I love to hike, and one of my favorite, close-to-home places is the Skyline Trail in the Blue Hills, a 7,000-acre reservation managed by the DCR (Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation) that encompasses Dedham, Milton and Randolph.  Everyone in my family has done it with me…except for Marianne.

But maybe that will change some day.  I am on the look-out for the 2015 release of a documentary called 4 Wheel Bob which chronicles the determination of a guy named Bob to hike the Sierra Nevada Mountain range – in his wheelchair.  You can find out more information on Tal Skloot’s film here.

In the meantime, these images  of Bob’s hike, taken by an accompanying photographer named Ezra Shaw, are truly inspiring.  Northeast Passage is an organization founded by the University of New Hampshire that offers a breadth of adaptive sports for wheelchair-users, including hiking.  For those of us who are not wheelchair-users but perhaps the companions, families, lovers of wheelers, check out this new endeavor:   Mothers of Adventure is a new, Boston-area venture that looks to connect hikers (the Blue Hills, anyone?) looking for local hiking partners.

Blue Hills Reservation with Mothers of Adventure, October 2014