Opportunities for fine, late season Nordic skiing abound in Franklin County. A series of February and March snowfalls have built good cover, and overnight temperatures have generally held below freezing. We are…
Waterfalls fascinate me. I am fortunate to have seen some of the better-known big falls in America – Niagara, Yellowstone, and Lava Falls in the Great Canyon, for example – and am…
The first significant snowfall of winter, with over a foot and a half lying in the woods and fields by our farmhouse, provides all the prompting I need to head for my…
Let’s go for a morning walk. While I await the coming snow of the winter season, and long anticipated snowshoe treks and back-country ski travels, I enjoy daily walks on country roads…
Stretches of fine fall weather this year call me to backpack a favorite section of the Appalachian Trail (AT) in Maine, the 15-mile stretch that passes over the dramatic Bigelow Range.…
On a crisp fall morning, the hardwoods ablaze in red, orange, and gold, I am on trail, on the Fly Rod Crosby Trail northward out of the Reed’s Mill trailhead in Madrid.…
On a clear, late summer morning, I solo-paddle my canoe into a rising wind, the breeze welcome on my face and arms as the day quickly warms under bright sun. I am…
Forest Legacy Trails is a 1272-acre tract of land on the west shore of Cupsuptic and Mooselookmeguntic Lakes, in Adamstown Township, west of Rangeley. Managed by the Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust (RLHT),…
A well-worn bit of Maine humor refers to two seasons in Maine: winter and the Fourth of July. Time to pause in working up next winter’s wood (or wood for the following…
Aziscohos Lake, northwest of Rangeley, in Northern Oxford County, is one of the expansive lakes in Western Maine serving as watershed for the Androscoggin River. In turn, the lake is fed by…