The NH AMC had our annual Telemark clinic. After last year’s terrifying crowds at Loon, we moved to Cannon Mountain this year. It was all man made snow, but wasn’t too icy. There were even some natural snow flurries. The problem was that the ski area was madly making snow to get ready for the […]
We actually did stuff in November, I was just too busy at work to find time to post about it. This was a half day hike we did starting from the Cannon tram parking lot. The trail itself was awfully washed out. In places we were hiking up a gravel canyon as deep as my […]
We got some natural snow, and enough cold weather for the ski areas to make snow. Saturday the whole family went to Pats Peak for lift serve skiing. They had their bunny hills and three real trails open. The surface snow was surprisingly decent in the morning. We did some technique practice, but our fun […]
The leaves have long since turned colors in the valleys and dropped on the slopes of the White Mountains. Last weekend, it snowed on the higher summits. Fall is marching on its inevitable path to winter. Except Saturday was sunny and almost 70F in the mountains. It made for good hiking weather when Benoît came […]
Monday was undeniably not a soaring day. It poured rain overnight. Then drizzled all morning. The clouds choked every valley, and there was no hint of the mountain peaks. A good day for a hike. Oh, and the temperature was forecast to stay a clammy 45F all day long. We picked Basin Cascades and Kinsman […]
Getting a gold altitude flight at Gorham wave camp turns out to be 70% prep work, 10% skill, and 20% luck. Tyson gets credit for a lot of the prep work, and yet he let me fly our glider on the first Friday of wave camp, which happened to be the day this year with […]
This weekend I was still recovering from being sick. I didn’t have any big plans. The next two weekends are booked. So it seemed like the right time to make my annual applesauce. The local farm store didn’t have much selection in B grade apples. Plenty of Cortlands and McIntosh’s which would have made an […]
I hadn’t expected much of a hike whose prime distinction was being just south of the famously crowded Falling Waters, Lincoln, Lafayette loop. But Tyson had done his research well. The Mt Flume and Mt Liberty loop was a fun hike. The most important question of the hike is, what are these things? The ground […]