WELCOME TO MLK JR. Weekend, after more snow than anyone expected, albeit with unwanted rain.
Doug Garland of Bear Notch Ski Touring and Snowshoe Center in Bartlett gave me a call just as I was starting to write this week’s column after having come back from a doc appointment at Memorial Hospital through the mixed precipitation slop.
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