Tag Archives: winter
What it’s like trying to sleep in the middle of an ice fishing derby
What really goes on in a Maine smelt shack
Winter motorcycle games: sidecar snowball joust and blindfolded beer grab
VIDEO: The fastest Mexican wrestling toboggan team in Camden
VIDEO: Winter motorcycle camping gets better when it stops raining
I’d made up my mind. The next person who walked through the door, brushing sleet off their shoulders, motioning to my motorcycle parked outside and asking, “How’s the riding?” was going to get my small paper cup full of coffee in the face. I’m not normally a hostile person. I’ve waited out the rain in […]
VIDEO: Motorcycles on ice
On Friday night I wore two pairs of long johns, Red Sox-themed fleece pants with a long-sleeved, insulated undershirt, a flannel shirt, a hoodie and a one-piece, insulated Dickies jumpsuit. A wool hat, two pairs of socks and gloves completed the look. Then I wriggled into a 20 degree down mummy bag and then squeezed […]
VIDEO: Motorcycle camping in the blizzard
The roads leading west into New Hampshire were slick last Friday morning. The leading edge of the snowstorm the TV weather folks were calling the impending “Snowpocalypse” or “Deathstorm ’13” in their typically understated fashion, was already dumping snow on me. I was astride my Russian-made Ural sidecar rig headed from Portland to Fryeburg. It […]