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Avoiding Rookie Mistakes: First X-C Adventure of 2009/10
Posted on December 31, 2009 | No CommentsDon’t make these rookie mistakes on your first cross-country ski adventure of the winter. -
Great Ways To Enjoy Winter
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No CommentsHere are three events that will guarantee fun this winters -
Alpina Discovery Backcountry Skis
Posted on December 25, 2009 | No CommentsIf you are going to have only one pair of cross-country skis to use anywhere, any time . . . -
A Rare Display Of Common Sense
Posted on March 27, 2009 | No CommentsMy sweetheart Marilyn is quietly reading. While she’s not exactly hiding from me, it’s clear that she’s ignoring me. I admit it, I’m very restless and a little grumpy. With reason. -
Mountain Road, Take Me Home
Posted on March 13, 2009 | 2 CommentsWe’d been planning to try something different on this particular day. Both of us love Alpine skiing, and we both love cross-country. So, we’d decided to combine the two with a top-down cross-country ski adventure. Sure, conditions weren’t perfect, but there was lots of snow to enjoy. The nice folks at the Nordic Center, who know the way the winds and snow work around their trail system, assured us that, once we got into the shelter of the woods, conditions would be perfect. They were right. -
A Backyard Barbecue
Posted on March 6, 2009 | No CommentsSome friends of ours invited us to a backyard barbecue recently. Hardly the stuff of Active Outdoors, you might think . . . -
Active Spectating
Posted on February 20, 2009 | 1 CommentWhat do you do when you really would enjoy watching an event? Become an active spectator! -
Whoosh!, Pop!, Splat!, Giggle!
Posted on February 6, 2009 | No CommentsMany of these kids are serious athletes. Some with realistic Olympic dreams for some future day. So yes, there’s genuine competition. But other kids were clearly just there just to do their best and to have fun -
Wonderful Winter Workshop
Posted on January 30, 2009 | No CommentsHere’s a hint. If you want a quiet, relaxing, laid-back winter weekend, you most definitely DO NOT want to sign up for one of the AMC New Hampshire Chapter’s (www.amc-nh.org) Winter Workshops at Cardigan Lodge in Alexandria, NH.
