July 13th, 2016. Baxter Peak, Maine. My son Andrew and I struck out to attempt Maine's highest peak via the Cathedrals, a third-class mountaineering route best described by my son as "exposed." We took three days for ...
Last week I was delighted to be invited to shoot some promotional images for Cranmore Mountain Resort. We spent part of a day with our family enjoying the Mountain Adventure Park. Tubing, ziplining, mountain coaster ri ...
Curacao is a striking country. A former Dutch colony, it was granted essentially full independence as recently as 2010. I visited the island to explore its west coast, its inlets and its bays in search of idyllic beach ...
South Ridge of Ingalls Peak
Yours truely on pitch two of Ingalls South Ridge
Sulphide Glacier
A gaper in the fog
Goodbye to the alpine
Last week my climbing partner Conrad Yager and I ...
This past weekend we stepped back in time. My family and I boarded a float plane for a foray into Maine's Great North Woods. Our destination was Second Debsconeag Lake in the Debsconeag Lakes Wilderness Area, a 500,000 ...
Gods Lake in Manitoba, Canada was so named without a possessive apostrophe in error. While some controversy exists over the validity of this name, one thing is not controversial: Gods Lake and the river that d ...
In October Andy and I took on a challenge: spend three days in Washington D.C., round trip from North Conway, NH, for under $1000. It was a success, thanks largely to the free Smithsonian and his tiny appetite. It was ...
The Lower Laguna Madre is a hypersaline bay on the southeastern tip of Texas. Over 400 square miles in area, the estuary has almost no fluid exchange with the Gulf of Mexico to the east. It receives most of its fresh w ...
Over 100 years ago Dr. Remick was the only town doctor in the small community of Tamworth, New Hampshire. His legacy was passed down through the years, as many other physicians accepted his torch from their predecessors ...
This past week a torch was passed. The venerable Anne Fitzgerald, my Travel Editor at The Boston Globe retired her post, only to be replaced by Christine Morris. If only the two could both steer the helm we'd be amazed ...