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By MILES HOWARD | Special To The Washington Post | Published: January 21, 2021 The old dam on New Hampshire s Second Connecticut Lake is caked with brittle crusty ice when I arrive, and the surrounding hills shrouded in fresh snow. But a torrent of steel-gray water spills through the concrete sluice, forming the beginnings of the Connecticut River. Up here, at the tiptop of the Granite State - 80 miles north of the White Mountains, where tourists scream down powdery slopes on skis each year - an older, slower winter wonderland awaits travelers. A windswept realm of lakes, highlands and boreal forest - the domain of old fishermen during the summer and fall months - this overlooked corner of New Hampshire is known as the Great North Woods, and there are two ways to experience the winter wilderness up here. You can blast through the forest on a snowmobile, like Wile E. Coyote strapped to a rocket. Or you can strap on snowshoes and disappear into the silence of the frozen white woods
Escaping the cacophony by strapping on snowshoes and slipping into the Great North Woods
Miles Howard, The Washington Post
Jan. 15, 2021
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1of3A pair of modern snowshoes, made of metal and plastic, at the Falls in the River Trail in New Hampshire.Photo for The Washington Post by Miles HowardShow MoreShow Less
2of3The skinny, ribbonlike trail that snakes and plunges through the snow-covered trees and brush, with yellow blazes on trees showing the way. Photo for The Washington Post by Miles HowardShow MoreShow Less
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The old dam on New Hampshire s Second Connecticut Lake is caked with brittle crusty ice when I arrive, and the surrounding hills shrouded in fresh snow. But a torrent of steel-gray water spills through the concrete sluice, forming the beginnings of the Connecticut River. Up here, at the tiptop of the Granite State - 80 miles north of the White Mountains, where tourists scream down powdery slopes on skis each year - an older, sl