On Sunday, April 15th, Frosty and I snowshoed up Big Moose Mountain, the mountain formerly known as Big Squaw. The road to the trail head was frozen when we drove in. It is a dirt road with active logging going on. The logging trucks have the right of way. With Read more…
I ran in the Bridge The Gap race on Sunday, April 8th. This race is hosted by Crow Athletics. The Bridge The Gap race has two distances to choose from — 10 miles or 3 miles. I ran the 3 mile route. Both distances start by Fort Knox in Prospect Read more…
On April 7th, Frosty and I headed to the Greenville area to climb Little Moose Mountain. We snowshoe Little Moose several times each winter. It is a favorite. Last night it snowed, so our drive up was gorgeous with the trees all wearing their white coats. The trail was beautiful! Read more…
On Saturday, March 31st, I ran in the second annual Space Race. The race benefits The Challenger Learning Center(CLC) of Maine in Bangor. The race starts and ends at the CLC. The course is an out and back loop that participants run twice. This race was small, only 37 runners. Read more…
On April 1st, we headed out early to drive up to Rangeley. We had a great view Saddleback on the way, but the minute we parked the car. It became overcast and started spitting snow! We met the Teal Goat from NH in the parking lot. He is in the Read more…
Frosty and I got an early start and headed up toward Greenville, past Kokadjo, to the AMC‘s new Medawisla Lodge. We parked here and strapped on our snowshoes. We arrived at the parking lot at 7:15. The trail groomers had already been out before we arrived. We snowshoed on the Read more…
On Saturday, March 25th, we hiked Bald Mountain in Dedham. It is a short, but steep, hike. The weather was incredible!!! My car displayed the temperature as 34 degrees, when we started. Luckily, we got out in the morning. It clouded up later in the day. While we were Read more…
The Epic Finale is a race put on by Epic Sports in Bangor, Maine. The race is held on the last day of each year. 2017 was the 12th year for the race. I was a bit freaked out by the predicted temperature and wind chill for race day. Since, Read more…
This January, I did my first snowshoe race. I ran in the Bradbury Squall. This is a 3 mile snowshoe race through Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal, Maine. Frosty and I drove down early, so that we could stop at L.L. Bean to drool over gear. We left with Read more…
On February 19th, Frosty and I hiked up Borestone Mountain. It was a sunshiny winter day. We had a fabulous hike that challenged us. We both thoroughly enjoyed this hike. We wore our snowshoes for this adventure. We took the Base Trail up to where it meets the access Read more…