Greg Wilder

Daily Category: Adventuring

Adventuring. Overlanding. Camping. Exploration. Backcountry hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, and more!

  • Keene Walldogs

    This morning the last of the construction and painting equipment left our basement. (Woo!) To celebrate, we cleaned up our bikes and rode the Cheshire Rail Trail 3 miles into town where the Walldogs Mural Festival was underway.

    In short, the Walldogs is a group of mural artists who travel the country creating public art murals related to local history.

    One of the murals was dedicated to Miss Catherine Fiske’s Female Seminary which you can hear more about here. Most importantly, we got to enjoy a decadent food truck lunch.

    Specialty sausage goodness
    Specialty sausage goodness

  • When Suddenly Mary Jane Smith Appears

    For the second year in a row, we were asked to speak at the regional SBDC New England Conference which took place in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. We had a lovely stay at the historic Red Lion Inn and were surprised to find this familiar face in our room.

    Mary Jane Smith portrait by Joseph Whiting Stock

    It’s an American folk portrait of Mary Jane Smith by nearby Springfield MA resident, Joseph Whiting Stock, and we have our very own copy of it in our living room!

    Happily we learned that Mary Jane Smith has a companion painting by John Brewster of Buxton, Maine. It’s appropriately titled, “Boy with Finch”. (I secretly think they’re siblings.)

    Boy with Finch by John Brewster

    That evening we enjoyed a wonderful meal at the The Lion’s Den…

    The Lion's Den

    …and the two portraits watched over us while we slept.

    Folk art watching us sleep

  • 4th Spring Coal Mountain Jeep Jamboree

    So this is our FIFTH Jamboree?!?!?

    Well, what better way to test Ruby Jean’s new upgrades than a series of intense rock gardens and the famous “Roller Coaster” (which was more like a slip-n-slide after a night of rain?

    As always, we learned lots of new things, but it is the people that make these events so freakin’ wonderful!

  • Ruby Jean Overland Upgrades

    I like to camp. A LOT.

    Zorro and Fletcher like it too. (especially Fletcher) And wherever we camp, Ruby Jean is there. Which is why after 7 years, it was time to upgrade to a proper towing suspension that’s still at home off-road.

    Enter the Teraflex 3″ Outback Overland Suspension…

    Teraflex Alpine CT-3 upper and lower control arms.
    Teraflex Alpine CT-3 upper and lower control arms.
    Custom load-enhanced heavy-duty rate coil springs.
    Custom load-enhanced heavy-duty rate coil springs.
    Bilstein shocks to smooth out the ride.
    Bilstein shocks to smooth out the ride.

    I think camping time is coming soon…

  • Winter Hike (In March)

  • After Rochberg: NYC Preparations

    I spent this last week in New York with my good friend and colleague Jeremy Gill as we prepared for the premiere of After Rochberg.

    In many ways this was a fabulous way to end 2018 — not the least of which is that this concert represented several milestones for my work on the Isomer Project. We worked hard this week. Even so, I got to visit with old friends…

    Jonathan rips through Helian

    taste test incredible restaurants…

    Dr. Gill prepares a blue cocktail

    try new cocktails…

    Juilliard Bookstore

    rummage through bookstores in search of rare scores…

    NYC Morning Looking West

    and take in early-morning NYC views.