Paddling & More Paddling
PHOTO: Charlie on Powder Mill Pond right off of Route 202 in Hancock. Charlie and I bought two used kayaks this spring and we been having fun paddling all over. New Hampshire Fish and Game…
Category: On The Trails & Summits
Wonalancet Out Door Club’s Mount Katherine & Trail Tending Red Path To Tilton Spring
PHOTO: Yours truly and Ellen celebrate the successful cut of a Birch Tree that was blocking the Red Path in Wonalancet. Trail maintenance is fun and satisfying work. We have been volunteering with the Wonalancet…
Paddling & Hiking Fun At Turtletown Pond & Oak Hill
PHOTO: Turtletown Pond is a 159 acre pond in Concord and the NH Fish & Game provides access to its waters for boating and fishing. The New Hampshire Fish & Game owns and maintains 142…
North to Terrace Mountain And Mount Cabot
PHOTO: Yours truly, Bria and Danielle on the wooded summit of Terrace Mountain, elevation 3,654 feet. Terrace is reached from a spur path off the Kilkenny Ridge Trail. Terrace is on the New Hampshire Highest…
New Hampton’s Kelley-Drake Conservation Area – Finding Nature & History
PHOTO: Amy’s hiking adventure ends with some paddling on Kelley Pond. Learn about places to put your canoe or kayak in the water at New Hampshire Fish & Game website: https://wildlife.state.nh.us/maps/boatfish/index.html or just Google: NH…
Pitcher Mountain Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway
PHOTO: Yours truly checking out the abandoned Pitcher Mountain Fire Warden’s cabin. The Fire Warden’s Road up Pitcher Mountain is part of the Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway. Becca and I started the morning in Center Nelson and…
Wilmot’s Bog Mountain – A Great Little Hike
PHOTO: Yours truly and Bria on Bog Mountain; Bria is sitting on the memorial granite bench dedicated to Bill Best and there is a Wilmot Tiny Library nearby. Bog Mountain in Wilmot is a great…
Back On The Trails! Pedaling White Mountain National Forest Roads
PHOTO: Our Weirs Times Ski/Outdoor Columnist is out of the house and back on the trails (but keeping her distance!) this week taking a bike adventure in the White Mountains. Pictured here at the dead…
Still More Close To Home
PHOTO: A selfie with my mother in the woods! We go for early morning walks in the woods between our house and my parents’. We are spending more time together and discovering new things. My…
Still More Close to Home
PHOTO: A selfie with my mother in the woods! We go for early morning walks in the woods between our house and my parents’. We are spending more time together and discovering new things. My…
More Close To Home
PHOTO: An umbrella is a fabulous invention that kept yours truly dry while I went for a walk in the woods in down pouring rain. “2020 is a unique Leap Year. It has 29 days…
Close to Home
PHOTO: Loppers? Check! Electric chainsaw? Check! Charlie has started work pruning high bush blueberry bushes. Many of us have more time to do the things we have been putting of for sometime. Pruning the bushes…
Spring Skiing!
Calendar Spring begins on March 19th! But dang, it is here in a big way. I want another big snowstorm but I think I have lost faith that snow will show up in time to…
Adventure Saturday Bridal Veil Falls and Rope Tows
Becca and I made a date for a skinning adventure and we didn’t decide where to go until the last minute. We had kept our eye on the higher summit forecast that called for high…
Winter’s Half Gone – Plenty Of Fun Left!
Groundhog Day is thought of as the traditional halfway point of the winter season but it actually falls a couple of days short. Winter’s official midpoint occurred this year on February 4th. I can’t believe…