At last I checked off my final trail for this hiking challenge, which I’ve been casually working on for a few years. With just a few trails left, I resolved to finish this year. Well, here we are only two months into 2026 and I’m done — not bad!
I tagged a couple trails last month with my sister, saving my final one for Hummingbird, who has always wanted to hike Odiorne Point in winter. We expected it would also be a good recovery hike for her as she gets back into hiking after knee surgery. That may not have been entirely accurate…
The main "issue" was that it has been warmer this week (which has been lovely!), so the snow was unstable. We probably should have used snowshoes, but didn’t due to concern of Hummingbird’s knee. Mostly the trail was solid enough for boots, but mushy, so it was like walking on soft beach sand. I joked that it was one of the biggest workouts I’ve had on flat terrain. 😅 There were a few spots (mostly near the windy coastline) where postholing happened too, which was extra scary on sensitive knees. And then there was the rock climbing…
We made it out to the long breakwater and it goes without saying that we had to walk out onto it. Tide was out, so it was an extra good opportunity. But there were the usual coastal boulders to navigate to get to it. I have no issue with that, esp. with my grippy boots, but Hummingbird was understandably kind of sketched out by a lot of it. She made it though, and walked more than halfway down the breakwater, which totaled just under .2 miles long! Pretty impressive.
While we didn’t hike the entire trail system in the park, which is fairly extensive, we still racked up 3.3 miles with all our wandering. And of course because it was a new-to-me trail AND the ocean, I obviously took an excessive amount of pictures. Ironically, one we didn’t take was a finisher pic of me! Oops. 😂
No matter, I still earned my patch. 👍🏻
Photo dump below of about 1/3 of what I took. (Completely out of order because this blog platform is dumb and I don't feel like messing with it.)
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| coastline and pretty clouds |
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| view of a lighthouse |
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| looking towards the breakwater |
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| view in the opposite direction |
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| straight down the breakwater |
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| Seacoast Science Center |
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| a little splash |
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| just thought this looked neat |
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| monument |
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| heading back to land on the breakwater |
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| Hummingbird looking out over the ocean |
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| looks like a moose to me |
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