When you visit Flagstaff, Arizona, you find yourself in a place you’d never consider a desert. Tall pines, green grass, soaring mountain peaks…it looks more like an Alpine village than the middle of a barren wasteland. Flagstaff lies in what is considered a semi-desert and has the largest contiguous Ponderosa Pine forest in North America. But one of Flagstaff’s most [...]

I love winter. Don’t get me wrong, summer is a favorite month too, but there’s something about winter: the falling snow, the crisp sunrises, the frozen snotcicles… Just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. The only problem with winter is that I can’t do my favorite summertime sports. Mountain biking takes a back seat in winter for me. No [...]

Apparently, it’s been snowing. A lot. Not here in Maine, mind you, where it’s supposed to snow a lot. Rather, the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest U.S. both have been getting pounded with snow for the past several days, the latest storm dumping another 10 or so inches on the previous 24-30 inches already on the ground. Being from New England, it’s [...]