FAIRLEE, Vt. – Ice skating on Vermont’s Lake Morey is far more than circling around a makeshift rink. It’s an expedition – a 4.5-mile one, around the frozen lake’s perimeter. It’s said to be the ...

For me, it was love at first nordic skate. I unwrapped the mysteriously heavy package and discovered 17-inch silver blades. It was Christmas a few years ago and my husband was very proud of the ...

When a two-week, high-pressure window of cold, clear weather froze lakes south of Anchorage, adventurous skaters, including our writer, were ready. By Elaine Glusac I’d been waiting for months when I ...

Since 2010, farmer Evan Perkins has spent his winters exploring the wild ice outdoors around his home in Barnet. “Wild” ice is ungroomed, and Perkins wears Nordic skates to glide across the uneven ...

Up the Gunflint trail you’ll find the Gunflint Lodge who’s creating a fun way for guests to enjoy the beauty of Gunflint Lake. Lodge owner John Fredrikson has plowed 6 miles of trails over the lake ...

DEWEY – It's about 8 a.m. and 34 degrees, and Rick bends down over the ice and hacks at it with a small hatchet. A few blows and there's water burbling up out of the hole. He uses marks he put on the ...

Tunneling through ice caves like bubble wrap, twirling with only mountains as spectators, and cutting past calving glaciers on hockey skates with adventurous pups trailing behind, backcountry ice ...

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>> THERE ARE SO MANY FARMERS HERE. FIFTH-GENERATION FARMERS TO LEARN FROM, AND THEY ARE THE BEST TEACHERS AROUND. TED: THEY ARE FIRST TO ADMIT THEY NEEDED MENTORING WHEN THEY STARTED OUT HERE. THEY ...