EASTHAM, Mass. – It was raining. It was cool. In places, the water in the marsh was only ankle-deep, barely navigable. But three of us, each in a kayak, were comfortable, even on an early May day with ...

“I was having Thanksgiving dinner with my uncle Peter, and I was talking about how I wanted the liberty to do something by myself,” middle school science teacher Nicholas J. Matthew recalls. Matthew ...

Our recent stay on Cape Cod (four nights, five days) produced more Active Outdoors fun than I could cram into a single column. Our second morning, we rode the entire Old Colony Rail Trail and a couple ...

Which goes on first, sun block or bug repellant? Both are sticky and white. If they don't sink into my skin, I'll look like a member of a primitive tribe in New Guinea on my first kayak trip. I've ...