The price of gas being as it is, some clever folks are looking toward two-wheeled alternatives. Scooters are all right, but you can’t do better than bicycles, which burn nothing but calories (I get about 30 miles per pizza slice, or thereabouts).
Paul Keegan got into bicycling in a big way more than 20 years ago, when [...]

Stay inside, and if you do go out, don’t breathe. That’s our government’s advice today for people in Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties. Stop and think on that for a minute.
 
It’s the sort of warning you’d expect after a major chemical or nuclear accident. Such things happen. Not often, thank goodness.
 
Unfortunately, we have allowed our air to be [...]

Gravity is free, and so is the slalom skateboard clinic being hosted by the Antrim Parks and Recreation Department on July 26.
 
The good folks of Antrim are hosting the clinic on Summer Street, that mecca of macadam that will be the site of the upcoming Can/Am Slalom Championship races (formerly “The Race for the Old Gold [...]

Mike’s Service Station saved my Sunday, and I want to thank them publicly and profusely for it.
The Amherst Village center has long been a popular spot for local road cyclists, and one gets the sense they are largely welcomed. The town doesn’t seem to mind if people park there, as a staging area for rides, and [...]

Two staffers from the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, a naturalist and an ecologist, will lead a group trek up Gap Mountain on Aug. 9.
Gap Mountain is one of those lovely little peaks surrounding Mount Monadnock. Like the bigger, better-known peak, it’s got clear views from the top, but it’s a much easier climb. [...]

I didn’t think to take any photos of blueberries, tho we did stop to nibble a few.
I wasn’t quick enough on the draw to get a photo of a bounding bunny, either. These things obligingly stood still:
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It’s pretty clear that the powers that be Hudson have about had it with the town’s skate park, and that’s a shame, but perhaps a good chance for some more progressive thinking group to score some nice ramps cheap.
 
Hudson selectmen have been frustrated by vandalism at the park ever since it opened in 2002, and they have [...]