winter hikes
Manly Men, 2009 In four of the past five years, Win Piper, Andy Anderson (undergraduate college buddies) and I have done a winter hike and since I started blogging about my bike rides, it occurred to me that I should blog about this too. I’ll start with this year’s hike and work chronologically backwards. This year’s hike took place on Monday, January 5, 2009. As usual, we used Win’s hovel in Hanover, New Hampshire as a jump-off point. (For those of you who don’t know Win and/or have never visited him, I am being just a touch facetious – hotel Piper is always spacious and comfortable.) Andy and I usually arrive the night before and the three of us would try to leave as early possible the next morning. Despite being in central New Hampshire, it still takes us 1.5-2 hours to get to our preferred trailheads in the White Mountains so it is a struggle to get on the trail before 10am. This year we resolved to do better. For the second year in a row, we deci...