John Willey descends from "The Pulpit," a stone structure at the terminus of the Dartmouth Trail at the Good Will-Hinkley School.

A shaft of sunlight shines on a lone mushroom while Melissa Bastien, educator at the L.C. Bates Museum at the Good Will-Hinkley School, hikes the Dartmouth Trail.

Bastien and Willey approach the entryway to the Dartmouth Trail.

Bastien and Willey inspect patterns made by woodpeckers and insects on tree bark near the trail entrance.

This monument to Theodore Roosevelt is one of many structures and signs, some whimsical, interspersed throughout the Dartmouth Trail.

Bastien and Willey stroll through the Avenue of Pines.