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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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;…

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…

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…

The Mount Washington Course at the Omni Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods hosted the New Hampshire Golf Associations Women’s Team Championship last week. The second annual championship was a two day, 36-hole best ball…

A year ago Liz and I started up the Appalachian Trail in North Adams, Massachusetts to reach the Vermont state line and the beginning of the 272-mile Long Trail. By late October we made it…

The threat of rain didn’t dampen our desire to go hiking. Bria and I decided to go to the nearby Hamlin Park in Meredith. I had located a guide and map that was put together…

The rain let up, the sun came out and finally it felt like spring. We decided it would be nice to get out and go for a walk. I had just learned about the Bradford…

Hiking in the White Mountains in the spring can be tricky if not just plain horrible. The snowmelt coupled with the falling rain makes fording brooks and rivers difficult if not impossible. Where the snow…

I am often asked how many days a year I ski. I joke, “I ski anytime I get the chance, I don’t count.” I have had good skiing adventures this Spring. Pats Peak stopped running…