by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Sharon and I bought the Mountain Collective Pass last March. We went to Whistler, British Columbia, Canada the second week of December. We also made a day trip to…

by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Bonds, Guyot & Zealand Traverse At 6 am in the Lincoln Woods parking lot the car’s thermometer read 1 degree. The moonlight was still bright so we left our headlamps…

by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Last night as we drove by the lit up slopes of Whaleback, I asked Sharon if she wanted to stop and ski some more and we both laughed. We were…

by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Sometimes I just don’t know where the time goes, but I am convinced that winter is too short. There are just too many fun things to do when the weather…

  by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Cold nights and sunny days make for great fun on the slopes. Winter doesn’t officially begin until December 21st, but it certainly looks and feels like winter is already…

  by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Many of us had less than a 24-hour notice that Bretton Woods lifts would be spinning on Sunday, November 13th. I first heard the news from reading a friend’s…

  by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Danielle and I met up just before 8 am at the Irving, the alien gas station, just north of I-93’s exit 33 on Route 3 in Lincoln. I get…

by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer There are lots of mountain lists and right here in New Hampshire we have many mountain lists. Some lists have been around a long time and are well known, while…

  by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Why not? We could stay with our AT thru-hiking friend Carey Kish and his fine wife Fran in Southwest Harbor on Mount Desert Island. We could see the Ocean.…

    by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Brrrr, the morning was chilly, the skies were clear and blue and it was a fine day to go hiking in the Belknaps. Fall is here. At 9am…

Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway, Section 9 by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer New Canada Road is a narrow dirt road that is known to many skiers as the short cut to Ragged Mountain Resort. I drove slowly, yet…

by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer From Franconia we drove through Twin Mountain, past the grand Mount Washington Resort Hotel and down Crawford Notch to reach the parking area for the Davis Path—right across from Samuel…

by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer We are not made of sugar. If we were made of sugar we would have melted and washed downstream of the East Branch of the Saco River. We pitched our…

by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Coös County is the most northern and largest county in New Hampshire. Coös and Cohos are pronounced “CO-ahss” with two syllables. If you say Coös as if it rhymed with…

by Amy Patenaude Outdoor/Ski Writer Every time we drive through Franconia Notch we pass the signs for the Flume Gorge and the Basin. We have visited these natural wonders many times and most often with…