For two of the past four years, Outside magazine has named Portland one of the most livable outdoor cities in the country. But Will Thomas at Tri-Maine and Patrick Hackleman at Casco Bay Sports know better. The two young Portland entrepreneurs, who are in the business of putting on hip, high-energy adventure races, say it’s […]

In the cool days and nights following the rain, the air, heavy and wet, lightened; our worries cleared like fog lifting; and the birds by dawn and the moths at dusk drew closer. Summer, with its heart still in cool spring, had come. We were working our way through the last of the winter wood […]

Day trips and overnight hikes are fun, but to really break away from the routine of the work-a-day grind, you’ve got to get out into the woods and mountains for an extended period. Here are a few suggestions for better-part-of-a-week summer backpacking escapes that will help you refresh the body, mind and spirit. 100-Mile Wilderness […]

For some of us, the ski season never really ends and we can’t pack our gear away for next season until we take those few last turns in the soft corn that remains on New Hampshire’s magnificent Mount Washington. For years a few of my hardy (some say foolish) buddies and I, despite increasingly vocal […]

This year, spring weather has reminded me of April through June of my sophomore year in high school — rain and unseasonable cold punctuated by short, infrequent warm spells. As of this writing we have had the same meteorological menu. When school ended that spring before my junior year, I was a precocious young teen […]