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I rode my bike through the tiny town of Sharon, Vermont (population 1,502), famous for being the birthplace of Joseph Smith, the first leader of the Church of Jesus Christ

Thanks to last weeks snow there are many backcountry ski trails ready for skiers.

On a June day in 1922, the month of the summer solstice, Vermont's first poet laureate wrote "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Six...

Vermont is beloved for a ton of reasons—not least of which is its epic riding. With singletrack for every level of mountain biker, road routes as charming

Vermont is beloved for a ton of reasons—not least of which is its epic riding. With singletrack for every level of mountain biker, road routes as charming

On a weekday morning in January in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest, the base of the gladed Maple Villa backcountry ski zone could have been mistaken for a Walmart parking lot on Black Friday. Some skiers sat anxiously in their cars, waiting for a spot to open up, while others parked at the nearby Ledge Brewing Company and walked the mile up the road with their skis slung over their shoulders. After a slow start to the season in New England, there was finally enough snowpa...

David Goodman In 1987, David Goodman was a fledgling journalist living in Boston when he got a call from the Appalachian Mountain Club. That year, hed written a piece for Cross Country Skier magazine about the revival of backcountry skiing, a back-to-the-land-esque movement of purists and adrenaline junkies. Disillusioned with the commercialization of downhill skiing, Goodman suggested, they were reclaiming the forgotten mountain trails cut by the C...