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The 3 Stages of Snowbound

February 13, 2013

As it turns out, putting Hannaford bags on your feet DOES NOT make last year’s busted boots appropriate for this year’s blizzard. This and other helpful lessons from the annals of the hopelessly snowed in.

Ice Patterns

February 13, 2013

Looking down, there’s some surprisingly lovely natural geometry to be seen. The snow that turned to liquid that turned to ice that turned to half-ice then all over again is still sharp-edged and angular in places, patterned by its own phase changes, in that intricate but necessary way we can only attempt to replicate.

Drink Cheap: Snowing? Half-price bourbons & drafts at Salt Exchange

January 27, 2013

When it’s snowing – like, literally snowing – drafts and bourbons are half off. Even when it isn’t snowing, The Salt Exchange has launched a new Monday-through-Saturday happy hour boasting half-price mixed drinks, wine, and beer and $6 apps.

The List: 5 winter driving words of advice

December 17, 2012

Mother Nature must get bored in the winter. This means she has to find new ways to entertain herself. Based on observation, she really likes dumping a boat-load of snow onto the roads and watching the wee people slide around in their cars, smashing into each other and careening into ditches. And while we can’t stop Mother Nature, we can prepare ourselves for the wintry slip ‘n slide.

Spotted on the street: our first real snow!

December 06, 2012

Remember when we made Travel + Leisure’s worst dressed list? I do – and I still shudder at the thought. But it is hard to look chic when you’re in snow boots and heavy coats for most of the year. Here’s proof that snow can’t stop a fashion-forward Mainer.

Toboggan run by winter, extremely painful waterslide by summer: U.S. National Toboggan Championships in Camden

January 31, 2012

Competitors in the U.S. National Toboggan Championships find out first hand what it’s like to rumble down the 400-foot-long chute and coast out onto a frozen pond. First timers might focus on their costuming (a cape and a pair of underpants are a surefire hit) and hitting the finish line without losing knuckle flesh to the unforgiving wooden chute walls.

Mattress, meet mountain: America’s Mattress Race at Shawnee Peak

March 28, 2011

Mattresses aren’t known for their speed. They tend to be judged for comfort over miles-per-gallon. But during Saturday’s America’s Mattress Race at Shawnee Peak, there were twins, fulls and kings flying upwards of 30 miles per hour down the main slope.

Give ‘em the axe: Ice climbing in Grafton Notch

February 23, 2011

Ice was, in my opinion, a harbinger of tailbone hurt. A temporary cold-weather fixture, no more reliable than a cloud of smoke.

The thought of climbing some up-ended glacier was out of the question. It was unfathomable. It was…inevitable.

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