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…
Category: On The Trails & Summits
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…
Waterville Valley Hiking and Congratulations Anna
We went to the Waterville Valley Conference Center last Saturday evening for the New England Ski Museum’s annual meeting and dinner. Waterville Valley’s own Anna McInyre was awarded the The Spirit of Skiing Award. McIntyre…
Fabulous Fall &Waterfalls & Boulder Caves Lost River Gorge
Peak foliage is behind us now and wasn’t it grand! According to the calendar, the first day of fall was September 23rd and the first day of winter will be December 21st. As we enter…
ADVENTURING: Welton Falls Trail
Becca and I have many old guide books and maps and sometimes for fun we use them to go adventuring. My first guide, a 1976 gold hardcover centennial edition of the AMC White Mountain Guide,…
Cannon Mountain Hike
Charlie put the bike rack on the back of the car and we loaded up our bicycles and drove to the Old Man viewing parking lot just south of the Cannon Mountain Tramway. The lot…
Carrigain Notch & Mount Carrigain
The mountaintops were hiding behind the clouds as I drove down Crawford Notch. I turned up Sawyer River Road and drove up the gravel road that is now narrow in a few places due to…
Great Hill Fire Tower
Great Hill certainly lives up to its name. The panorama vista from the Great Hill Fire Tower is one of the finest. The Sandwich Range winds around Great Hill, from Sandwich Mountain all the way…
Journey’s End: Vermont’s Long Trail
Liz and I are finally End to Enders. We finished the Long Trail last Wednesday, all 272 miles. We began section hiking the Long Trail a year ago last June. We hiked 20 days total;…
Cannon & Loon – Family Mountaintop Fun
Katie and Scott, my husband Charlie’s sister and her husband, are from Wisconsin and they came to visit us and they wanted to see our White Mountains. We couldn’t have been happier to show them…
Mount Pemigewasset and Clark’s Trading Post
We sure had a full day of summer fun last Sunday. Bria and I met at the north end of the Flume parking lot at 9 am. Since we had two cars we decided to…