On an unseasonably balmy 80 degree day last week, my friends Caroline, Greg, and I headed to Pawtuckaway State Park to do some campfire cooking. Unfortunately, things did not work out as planned. It turns out the campground/campfire area doesn’t open until later in the season. What to do? We had all the fixings for […]
Month: March 2012
Mt Washington State Park: Monday, March 26th, 2012
It’s been a record breaking weather week on the summit of Mt Washington. Temperatures for the summit shattered six daily record highs with the warmest recorded by MWO of 54F on Wednesday, March 21st. That’s 15 degrees warmer than the record high for that day. In March temperatures should average well below freezing, with lots […]
Chocolate Festival Near Mount Washington State Park
This has definitely been the hardest post I’ve ever had to write. It was torture. I have been sitting here drooling for the past hour, reminiscing about my experience at the 23rd Annual Mount Washington Valley Chocolate Festival. Nestled in the shadow of Mount Washington State Park, Intervale, New Hampshire opens its nordic ski trails […]
Winter Surf at Jenness State Beach
Surfing doesn’t often come to mind when most everyone in New England is hunkered down in the middle of the winter season. With New Hampshire boasting its 18 miles of coastline it’s an unlikely candidate for the sport, but when conditions are right the surf is phenomenal. Jenness State Beach is one of many NH […]
Mt Washington State Park, March 19th, 2012
By the calendar this past week was still officially ‘winter’ but it definitely felt spring like on the summit of Mt Washington. We had all sorts of weather from light snow to rain to fog to stunning undercasts where the clouds are below the summit. Our summit weather stations’ web camera network caught some interesting […]
Mt Washington State Park Monday March 12th, 2012
Sherman Adams Summit Building Guess I shouldn’t quit my day job just yet to become a weather forecaster. Last week I wrote that a series of low pressure systems could give us a Nor’easter on Friday. Instead we got record high temps some rain on Friday and a peak gust at 120mph. Not the snow […]
Dog Sledding up Mount Washington with Muddy Paw Dog Sled Kennel
Last week, I had an experience I’ll never forget: a sunrise dogsled run up on the Mount Washington Auto that leads to Mount Washington State Park. The Muddy Paw Sled Dog Kennel, based out of Jefferson, New Hampshire, has been training for a historic ascent of Mount Washington. Mt. Washington has only been summited twice […]
Mt Washington State Park, Monday March 5, 2012
We saw an interesting large dog print the other day on our trip up the mountain. Guessing it spanned well over 4″ from tip of claw to its heel pad. It was traveling downhill towards Pinkham at 2000′ elevation coming from Great Gulf. Maybe it was just a large Eastern Coyote but when I saw […]
NH Fish and Game’s “Becoming an Outdoors Woman” Winter Workshop
On February 18th, I went to the annual Winter “Becoming an Outdoors Woman” program, sponsored by the NH Fish and Game department. Becoming an Outdoors Woman (BOW) gives women an opportunity to learn useful outdoor skills in an exciting and supportive environment. BOW offers workshops throughout the year, notably a weekend-long getaway in the fall […]