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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!
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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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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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Even before I started skiing, I heard the legends. These whispers told of an elusive creature glimpsed only during or immediately after winter storms. Like the yeti, this creature is seldom spotted in the northeast, but today I’m visiting it’s native habitat, and it’s snowing.
Yesterday I received from my employer an auto-generated email congratulating me on my third work anniversary. Since I took up skiing the last time I was between jobs, that means it’s been just over three years since I started learning. This trip down memory lane is relevant because right now I’m in Snowbird, Utah looking down slopes both longer and steeper than I’m used to and reminding myself that I do this for fun.
I’m proud to be part of a very cool group of women from the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Boston Chapter Mountaineering Committee called the SendHers.
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February is the ideal time to hit the highlights of the previous year. Why? Everybody else publishes their top 10 lists and year in review listicles in December, and it’s so hard to compete with that kind of crowd. Also, I didn’t start blogging until February.
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