winter hiking – sarah hunter

Katahdin: A Winter Ascent

My pulk sled, laden with five days’ provisions, threatens to pull me down the hill I’ve been laboring up for the past quarter mile. I lean forward, dig in with my mountaineering snowshoes, and summon all the strength I can muster to lug this tremendous burden to the top of the hill.

Ocean Meets Mountains

It’s a rare and memorable experience to hike above treeline on a windless, blue-bird day and look down on a bank of clouds. But the show we had on Sunday was beyond compare. Soon after reaching Thunderstorm Junction, as we started to ascend Mount Adams on Lowe’s Path, the undercast transformed into ocean. Crashing wavesContinue reading “Ocean Meets Mountains”