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New England Outdoor Adventure
Welcome to the New England Outdoor Adventure Blog!
During the winter months, Heather Atwell is Yankee Magazine's New England ski blogger. She reports on her ski experiences across New England, offers ski tips, shares news of great deals and writes about her favorite season.
The offspring of parents who met in the lift line at Vermont's Stowe Mountain, Heather has skied since she could walk. She's a fully certified PSIA instructor who knows New England ski areas from her four years working for Ski Vermont and from her lifelong love of the sport.
The rest of the year, Heather searches for outdoor adventures in the great outdoors of New England. And she shares some of those adventures in Yankee’s New England Outdoors Adventure Blog.
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A Relaxing Vacation
Baby, it was cold outside
January 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM | Post a Comment
With a week and a half off to play, I hoped to trek across New England and ski so hard that by the end of each day all I could manage was an après ski happy hour and an early bedtime.
Vacation is over, and my planned ski odyssey shifted gears and became official downtime with scant skiing. I was very busy relaxing and doing non-adventure activities like getting pedicures, visiting art museums and eating dim sum.
Winter is Here
Waiting a little bit to celebrate
December 23, 2008 at 10:41 AM | 3 Comments | Post a Comment
I am suffering from a tad bit of ski blogger writer's block because I am conflicted by my feelings. I am so excited by the start of winter 2008 - 2009. The ground is covered with snow and the mountains are in great shape (yahoo!!). However, some of my co-workers at Yankee are without power after more than a week. Every time my mind starts wandering to making fresh tracks, I think of them, knowing that their every task is about 100 times more complicated than what it is for me: Flushing a toilet, keeping warm, cooking some food.
Ski Lift Ticket Deals and a Contest
Win a sign for your ski house
October 21, 2008 at 10:07 AM | 3 Comments | Post a Comment
Blog Reader Alert - Attention/Achtung/Attenzione/Faites Attention:
For those who cannot make it through an entire New England Outdoor Adventure post, first, I am sorry since I try my best to be engaging and make you want to read to the end. However, I also realize that things happen and sometimes you just need to stop and do something else. Or maybe you were doing something else already and started reading this blog and then realized you had to finish the other thing that you started. I understand. I do. If you think that might happen, scroll down to the bottom of this post first. You have the opportunity to win a very cool ski sign. I would not want you to miss out on the chance to win such a great prize because you are bored with me.
Making a Marathon Green
ING Hartford Marathon
October 3, 2008 at 11:18 AM | Post a Comment
One of the things I notice often when I go for a run is litter. I've bored many friends with my concept for a Dunkin Donuts anti-littering education campaign inspired by the countless discarded coffee cups on the side of roads. When I was little, I considered litterbugs to be very bad people. Now, I think there should be a name for people who don't recycle -- maybe non-recycler-bug.
A Fall Trail Run
And a little tapping on wood for good luck
September 18, 2008 at 12:24 PM | Post a Comment
There are people who hike year-round. I am not one of those people. For me, fall is the perfect time to hike. Actually, the fall before hunting season is the perfect time to hike. And, just to clear things up, snowshoeing up hiking trails in the winter, in my opinion, is snowshoeing, not hiking, otherwise I would say that fall and winter are the best times to hike. And to clarify a bit more, I am making this statement based on living in the east, because I really love hiking in Colorado in the summer where there is so little humidity. So, yeah, in the east, hiking in the fall, before hunting season, is the perfect time to hike.
