BERLIN – White Mountains Community College’s President, Dr. Charles Lloyd, recently toured one of the New Hampshire National Guard’s armories in Concord where he learned about a recent rescue from
Justine Paradis
Laura Waterman holds a handmade plaque that she and her husband Guy awarded to Mad Dog, the maple tree on their homestead with the highest maple sap production.
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In New England, the Waterman name is like mountain royalty. But beyond a tight circle of outdoors-people, they re not a household name.
In February 2020, Sam Evans-Brown visited Laura Waterman, one of the most influential voices in American wilderness philosophy, for a conversation about writing, living off-grid, protecting Franconia Ridge, and how she s changed following the death of her husband.
Plus, another round of
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Ron Chase: Climbing Mount Charles Thomas Jackson
By Ron ChaseSeniors Not Acting Their Age
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Distinctive Mount Jackson is located on the southwestern end of the Presidential Range in the New Hampshire White Mountains, New England’s most consequential mountaineering environment. Situated between less illustrious Mounts Pierce and Webster, I suspect most people assume Mount Jackson is named for the seventh president, Andrew Jackson. To quote one of the most intelligent people I’ve met, “Never assume anything.” Unlike the more prestigious Mounts Washington, Adams and Jefferson, Mount Jackson is not named for a president, but rather controversial 19
th century geologist Charles Thomas Jackson.
Greg Morrill
Itâs amazing how looking at old photos can bring back so many memories. Longtime friends Pat and Mike Weisel used COVID-time to go through their old photos and have some digitized. Since some of those pictures were from our shared adventures spanning 50 years, they forwarded copies to me. What a trip down memory lane. A couple of those pictures spawned this weekâs column.
I shared some memories from my 1974 ski trip in a column last February. That trip involved jamming 10 people and gear into one van and then visiting Alta/Snowbird, Sun Valley and Jackson Hole.