Winter has come to the White Mountains. After climbing the Imp Face and Middle Carter on Friday, it feels strange because it’s still clearly autumn at home. It’s as if I dipped myself in another world for a moment and am now home with the memories of a strange, magical trip. Not many hikers out…
Tag: 4000-footers
Reading “White Mountains State”
I know I say I don’t really do book reviews, but here I am, finding myself reporting on another one only a week or so after reviewing The Beauty of Ordinary Things. But I can’t help myself. If there’s a book I like—especially if it shines a light on the mountains of New Hampshire like…
Why 4000s by 40?
So why 4000s by 40? Why the need for this book? Well, a few years back—okay, a while back—before I turned 40, I was starting to have all those anxious thoughts we get as we approach that milestone year, wondering what the second half of my life would look like. I started asking myself if…
The Last Twenty Feet: Mount Isolation
“It was the first of November, and I was regretting having missed my chance to summit the last time I went up the Glen Boulder Trail. It was hard enough in the summertime, when the ground was clear, but today there was already a surprising amount of snow clogging up the trail.“– from 4000s by…