ON SKING: Tips for storing your skiing gear

Outdoors

Published
April 12, 2012

ON SKING: Tips for storing your skiing gear

After months of fits and starts (Snowstorms! Droughts! Freezing temps! Record-breaking highs!), we've reached the end of ski season. Skis and boards are getting stored, replaced with golf clubs, boats and hiking boots.
Published
April 7, 2012

ALLEN AFIELD: Bicycling begins in earnest, time to hit the roads

Maine bicyclists, this writer included, often dream of living in a state or country that allows year-round bicycling without cold and snow from December though March.
Published
April 7, 2012

DEIRDRE FLEMING :Rewards of the hunt tasty, and helpful for charity

Deer pie, bear meatloaf, duck kebabs and moose sausage are not unusual snacks to find at a Maine camp or rod and gun club potluck dinner.
Published
April 7, 2012

ON SKIING: Value of making lots of snow

One thing all winter sports enthusiasts learned this winter is that Mother Nature is a fickle friend, and she'll occasionally let us down.
Published
April 7, 2012

FISHING: Right stuff from Lefty

It's safe to say when fishermen around the world meet Lefty Kreh, they don't associate him with Maine. And by no means is Maine -- well known as it is for its brook trout ponds and salmon lakes -- on this famous angler's Top 10 list for places to fish.

Published
April 5, 2012

ON HIKING: Plenty of hiking availableat Crooked Farm Preserve

Crooked Farm Preserve in Bristol encompasses 130 acres of open fields, forested uplands and wildlife-rich wetlands, including over a mile of frontage on the placid Pemaquid River. More than three miles of foot trails wend through this scenic parcel, offering hikers plenty of opportunity for exploration.
Published
April 5, 2012

FOR THE BIRDS: Enjoying diversity of birds at festivals

Spring birding in Maine is phenomenal. Many birds, like warblers and flycatchers, return to Maine from more southerly wintering areas to nest. Other birds, like most sandpipers and plovers, are passage migrants; we get to enjoy them briefly as they migrate through Maine to more northerly breeding grounds.
Published
April 5, 2012

ON SKIING: Lack of snow no problem

Going into the winter of 2011-12, the Farmer's Almanac predicted a wickedly cold and snowy season for New England. "Clime and punishment" was in the forecast, with above-average snowfall and below-average temperatures on deck.
Published
March 31, 2012

SPORTSMAN’S SHOW: Carving out a hobby

AUGUSTA — Richard Nickerson’s wood carving of a Cedar Waxwing perched on a berry branch appeared ready to take flight, one reason there was a first-place blue ribbon near its base.
Published
March 31, 2012

ALLEN AFIELD: Fishing crowds should swell

In April 2010, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) liberalized both ice and open-water fishing laws in lakes and ponds in the bottom third of the state by allowing year-round angling in most of them.