I’m glad my phone remembered the long weekend I appended to a business trip to make the most of the brief but spectacular summer in the Pacific Northwest, because it feels like forever ago, and I’d almost forgotten.
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Category: Mountains
In like a really fluffy lion
Meteorological winter was pretty disappointing– very little snow and long periods of temps above freezing. Now that we’ve turned the page into meteorological spring and snowdrops and crocuses have been spotted in my hometown, we finally got some real snow in New Hampshire… and I went out to play in it!
Continue Reading →2022: a year in pictures
It’s been a year since I posted anything, but that doesn’t mean I’ve been sitting still!
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Uphill, both days
I broke one of my own rules this week– even though President’s Day was a company holiday, it sneaked up on me and I didn’t have my act together to make that 3-day weekend into a 4- or 5- day weekend. I still managed to get out for some fresh air though.
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Winter wonderland
It took a long time this winter, but finally the White Mountains lived up to their name.
On Friday 18 inches of snow fell in the White Mountains. It was cold during the storm and stayed that way through the weekend, which meant that the snow stayed dry and fluffy- a rare condition in the northeast!
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Mt. Flume and Mt. Liberty
After the fourth heat wave of the summer, it was a great relief when the weather broke, sending cool though still humid air over the White Mountains. It was finally a nice day for a hike!
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37 miles on the AT
I took this week as vacation, and even though I didn’t travel far I got off the grid for a few days of backpacking along the Appalachian Trail. My plan was to go solo, but as it turned out I had plenty of company: a multitude of mosquitos and black flies joined me for every step. Nonetheless it was a great trip— the terrain is beautiful, it was quiet, the weather was good enough, and I feel so accomplished for having done it!
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Bug net for the win!
And no, I don’t have pictures of myself decked out for a 13 mile hike on a warm day with every inch of skin covered. The annual crop of mosquitos and black flies were out in force, but I was ready for them!
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Shaking off the rock dust
This was my first climbing day of 2021 and it felt amazing to be out in the sunshine, with friends, reminding my body and brain what climbing feels like.
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Midweek Moose
One day this week I took the opportunity of a gap between my US workday and my Asia workday to get out for a late afternoon weekday hike up Three Ponds Trail.
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