HAPPY SPRING, as come Sunday we will have made it through another northern New Hampshire winter.
It’s New Hampshire Maple Weekend, as our cover story notes, and the sap’s running and skiers are spring skiing, with conditions corning up just fine as the snow cover goes fast from the lower elevations of the valley. As my late ski history mentor Dick May always used to say, “Spring — followed by muddy footprints.”
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