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…
Category: On The Trails & Summits
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…
Kicking and Gliding at Jackson XC & A Ski Day at Loon Mountain
January had lots of snow and cold but the January thaws were no fun for winter lovers. Ice fishing and hockey enthusiasts had to stay off the ice for a few days due to the…
Zermatt, Switzerland: Big Mountains, Big Fun
“The Matterhorn is everywhere,” the desk agent at our hotel told us after we discovered that our room did not have a view of the iconic pointy peak. This year Sharon and I decided we…
Plenty of Snow For Everyone To Enjoy
We did a lot of playing in the snow over the holidays and the snow storms came just in time to dress up the slopes and trails. Pushing fresh powder or gliding on fresh set…
Ragged Mountain Resort
December has been a fun month for skiers and snowboarders. We’ve had some good snowstorms and plenty of cold nights and even when Heat Miser showed up and delivered some liquid pre-snow weeks ago Cold…
Snow Much Fun!
What fun it is to be playing in the snow. The good skiing and hiking/snowshoeing right now makes it appear that winter is here to stay. Wow, winter has arrived and calendar winter doesn’t begin…
It’s Snowtime!
We aren’t buried like we were last year at this time but we have received some natural snow. Add to that the many cold nights that have been perfect for blowing man-made snow. Now lots…