Most every hiker worth their granola bars knows about the “10 essentials” — those must-have items that ought to be in your pack for every trail outing. Whether you’re going out for a short hike of a few hours or an all-day mountain ramble, emergencies happen, and you may just need to rely on this […]

On your way up to the mountain, an email to your smartphone gives you the daily mountain report, and tweets from your friends tell you who’s planning on being on the hill. After you unload your gear and get equipped, a liftie uses a handheld scanner to log your ticket or season’s pass. On the […]

This coming week in Maine’s bottom third, brooks with brook trout will start producing decent-to-darned-good fishing unless nature conspires against my prediction with unseasonably frigid weather for the next several days. Even if action remains slow, though, trout streams will surely pick up in late April or early May and continue into the first week […]

According to locals, Room 318 at The Herbert hotel is haunted. So a reporter elected to stay for a night.

UPCOMING Spotlight on Owl Expert 6:30 p.m. April 16, Wells York County Audubon is hosting a talk about owls by Norman Smith. Since 1981 the naturalist has spent countless nights in every imaginable weather condition, observing, capturing and banding snowy owls at Boston’s Logan International Airport. Most recently, satellite transmitters have been attached to owls […]