“Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, where we will spend our last two nights together, isn’t exactly small.”
It’s our first morning together in Juneau: six Vermonters, five of whom are from Addison County, and most are visiting Alaska for the first time. And we’re experiencing a lot of the great outdoors.
Fishing, birding and pre-dawn adventures made for a memorable trip.
“One evening, half an hour before sunset, a sow black bear with two cubs came wandering past . . . “
“The first was the most memorable…”
Established in 1997, its purpose is to “conserve, protect and enhance the abundance and diversity of native plant, fish and wildlife species and the ecosystem on which they depend throughout the 7.2 million acre Connecticut River watershed.”
“When somebody calls, answer the phone on the first ring.”
Did I even bother to head down to the river at all?
Warm temperatures signaled what may have been the season’s final Nordic ski at Rikert Outdoor Center for Matthew Dickerson.
This year for Lent, my wife Deborah has not been fasting. Instead, she has decided this Lent to take a walk in the woods every day.
“Views of Mount Orford opened up in front of us, topped with a slow clinging cloud and illuminated in afternoon light.”
“Parc national du Mont-Orford boasts 50 km for classic skiing and 26 km for skate skiing over a range of beginner, intermediate and advanced terrains.”
Be part of a free workshop with author and artist Matthew Dickerson, Feb. 21.
Matthew and McKenna Dickerson will show their photographs and paintings at Jackson Gallery in Middlebury on Feb. 3.
“Luci loved the natural world, and over her life as a poet she practiced what it meant to be attentive.”
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