A Serious Issue
Have you seen my oversized political mailer I have been using to promote my current campaign for governor under The Flatlander Party ticket? Chances are you didn’t since we only had a hundred and sixteen…
Year: 2018
Mount Pemigewasset Franconia Notch State Park
by Amy PatenaudeOutdoor/Ski Writer Mount Pemigewasset summit ledges stand out high above the west side of the south end of Franconia Notch. The ledges form a profile of a giant stone face that gives the…
What’s the Matter With New Hampshire?
by Ken Gorrell,Weirs Times Contributing Writer In his 2004 best-seller, What’s the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank questioned the sanity of social-conservative voters who, he contended, voted against their economic best interests by voting for…
Late Summer Fun At The Polar Caves And Loon Mtn
A Day At White Mountain Attractions by Amy PatenaudeOutdoor/Ski Writer New Hampshire isn’t Disneyland, New Hampshire’s better! New Hampshire has the White Mountain Attractions! Is there any place else in the world where you can…
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer America lost an irreplaceable voice last week with the passing of Aretha Franklin. If your knowledge of her music is limited to popular hits like “Respect,” “Think,” and…
Cannon Mountain’s Aerial Tramway – A Fun Ride to the Top
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer This summer Cannon Mountain celebrates 80 years of Aerial Tramway service! Cannon is the home to the first aerial tramway in North America when it first opened in 1938.…
The Old Man Versus The Grey Lady
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer The Old Man of the Mountains fell from high above Profile Lake fifteen years ago, but it remains the symbol of the Granite State, and always will. I…
Section Hiking Vermont’s Long Trail
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer The Long Trail follows the spine of the Green Mountains from the Massachusetts state line to the Canadian border. End to end the Long Trail is 272 miles in length.…
Giant Sucking Sound
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer “Correction: An earlier version of this article included a debunked statistic that Americans throw away 500M drinking straws a day, or 1.6 a day per person. Previous tweets…
Hiking North, Middle & South Tripyramid From Waterville Valley
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer “Waterville Haystacks” was an early name for Mount Tripyramid, the big three-summit mountain that rests between Waterville Valley and south of the Kancamagus Highway in Albany. There are options to…
Right To Try
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer “Thousands of terminally ill Americans will finally have hope, and the fighting chance…that they will be helped…,” Trump said while signing the “Right to Try” bill giving terminally…
Hot – Humid – Hiking… Hale, Zealand, Guyot, South & North Twin
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Rain hammered down most of the night and by morning it was clear. I had no doubt that the heat and humidity would slow us down but we’d deal…
World Cup Football and Politics
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer HAMBURG—Witnessing the early stages of the World Cup Football extravaganza offers an amazing sporting experience. Indeed the enthusiasm is palpable and contagious as the early matches kicked…
A Little Child Shall (Mis)lead Them
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer To be fair, it’s not the children who are doing the misleading. It’s the adults who are using them as props. Children are being used as tools to…
Amy Goes Hiking At Maine Mountains In Baxter State Park
by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Baxter State Park is way up there. I made it to the Big Moose Inn & Cabins in Millinocket from Franconia in about five hours. After I checked in, I…