Extras

Method and Resources

     

         Each evening before a walk the next day, I perused Thoreau's journal entries (1906 edition). In selecting excursions, I sought to maximize the diversity of destinations, and the best match to predicted weather conditions.  I consulted Ray Angelo's Thoreau Place Names guide to decipher and match Thoreau's routes and destinations with modern day trail and place names.

         On my walks, I used the Gaia phone app to locate the Thoreau destinations via current-day trails. In the field, I jotted rough notes by pencil and paper or into my phone's notes app, and later typed up journal entries, typically early the next morning.  I also used various nature guides for plant and animal identification, including the Inaturalist Seek phone app, Merlin Bird ID phone app, Sibley tree and bird guides, Ray Angelo's Botanical Index to the Thoreau journals, and the Audubon New England guide.  I used my phone for photos.

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Map

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         For a map of the locations that Thoreau describes in his journal of daily adventures, please see the map created by Herbert Gleason in 1906, and more recently corrected by Ray Angelo.