By Karen Chenard One of my favorite and most blissful winter pastimes in Maine is cross-country skiing. I started writing this post in February when the snow was plentiful, light, and powdery—the kind of idyllic conditions that every Nordic skier hopes for. But as Mark Twain so aptly observed about New England’s ever-changing weather, “There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger’s admiration—and regret. The weather is always doing some

By Randy Chenard Once every ten years or so during the winter in Maine, we get conditions of cold and little snow that creates amazing conditions for magic, where our thousands of lakes and ponds are made of glass, making for surreal landscapes to be explored with a simple pair of skates. There’s nothing quite like the magic of gliding across a frozen pond on a crisp Maine winter day. Whether you're practicing figure eights, playing a game of pond hockey, or simply enjoying t