Much as I love snow, sometimes it’s good to get away someplace warm. It’s especially good when that place includes a beach, palm trees, a coral reef, good and plentiful food and drink, and the company of those most dear.
My folks took us all to Mexico for Christmas this year. We swam, snorkeled, soaked up [...]

I almost stepped in deer poop. Lucky for me, it stands out well against the snow.
It wasn’t steaming, but it looked as the tracks I was following through the snow in the woods out back of my yard. Snow had been falling all day and was falling still, but the prints (and the poop) were fresh laid, [...]

It’s a good time to be a voter in New Hampshire, but it’s an even better time for skiing.
At least, that’s what I decided. The political junkie in me wanted to go see Sen. Obama tonight at my neighborhood middle school, but the rest of me wanted to get out and play in the snow.The [...]

I can’t remember a year when we’ve had this much snow before Christmas. My memory isn’t so great, so that doesn’t mean much, but it’s been a while.
There had to have been six inches of brand new, beautiful fluffy snow on the parking lot when I left work this afternoon, with plenty more still to [...]

If you live or work in Nashua, you’ve probably seen Thomas Parker. He’s the fit-looking fellow who runs up and down Main Street.

He’s also the 2007 Western Massachusetts Athletic Club’s Stonehead of the Year. Despite the title, that’s an honor, not an insult.
The WMAC runs the Grand Tree trail running series, a string of 23 [...]

Before Horse Hill, I used to ride most often in what’s now called the Grater Woods area of Merrimack.
The last time I visited, a couple years ago, the area looked awful. Trails had been rutted by knuckleheads on quads (what they lack in finesse, they make with throttle) and some areas had been logged, so I [...]

Blodgett Hill is bigger, but Horse Hill is the harder to climb, I’ve found.
I have managed to bicycle up Blodgett Hill on all of the official trails (though I don’t routinely make it over the bit of ledge on Ledges Trail, and I haven’t yet tried to climb the steepest section of the old snowmobile trail, one [...]