Welcome northern central MA and southern NH walkers, hikers!

Meet other local people who are interested in walking/hiking for fitness! We also do some biking, snow shoeing, ice skating, roller skating and some x-country skiing and getting together for a bite to eat after a hike or just coffee. Our group is a lot of fun. We are all friendly and always open to new ideas for meetups and new places too. We do have to consider the regions originally intended which are northern central MA and southern NH but will venture out now and then on camping trips or to the beach. We're about having fun and getting some exercise. Most of our group can do moderate hiking.

The difficulty of our hikes are normally set to allow the maximum amount of participation for the maximum amount of members. When hikes are planned that are more difficult, such as Mt Monadnock, the description of the meet-up will include this fact. Our goal is to enjoy the outdoors while meeting people interested in the same - not to conquer the mountains. Our hikes are also paced to keep everyone in the group more or less together through the entire hike.

Weather is obviously a major factor in any of our hikes. We try not to cancel meet-ups for light rain - we are outdoors after all. However, in the case of forecasted heavy rain and/or lightning, we'll try to cancel those meet-ups about 24 hours ahead of time. I use weather.com radar maps to make this determination and send an email prior to the event. The best advice is to check your email the morning of a meet-up for any cancellations.

Anyone soliciting products or services through this group will be omitted from the group immediately. To discourage this kind of behavior, I ask that group members do not buy any products or services from anyone trying to sell them through this group or this website. That is NOT what Meet-up is intended for.

By RSVPing "yes" or "maybe" Northern-central-MA-Walking-Group members and their guests attending any of our meet-up events agree to release, hold harmless, and indemnify the organizer(s) and all members of this group from any and all claims for property damage, injury, and/or death, including those caused by negligence and or other reasons. You also agree to assume all risk associated with each meetup you attend and agree to know and follow the Hiker Responsibility Code described at www.hikesafe.com

== Legal Stuff ===
By clicking on "Yes" or "Maybe" for any event you agree, warrant, and covenant as follows:

In consideration for accepting this entry, I, the registrant, intending to be legally bound, hereby, for myself, my heirs, my executors and administrators, do waive and release any and all rights for damages I may have against any parties or persons connected with the Northern-central-MA-Walking-Group for and related to any event which I attend. I attest and verify that I (and any guest(s) I bring are) am physically fit to participate in any portion of each event I attend. I grant Northern-central-MA-Walking-Group permission to use any photographs, film or videotapes of all events for any purpose.