From Yesterday’s No Kings Trump protests at the Vermont State House in Montpelier. Sign-makers unite.
The XC Ski World Comes to Lake Placid
When the 2026 FIS World Cup cross country ski final races came to Lake Placid, NY, in the heart of the Adirondacks last weekend, the American XC ski community showed up too. So did snow, […]
Farewell, John Caldwell
When it’s said that John Caldwell was the father of cross country skiing in America, it’s not a stretch, not by any means an exaggeration. There is an absolutely direct line from his ideas […]
2025: The Year in Pictures
Some of my favorite pictures from the crazy year of 2025. Click here for a gallery/slide show with captions. Brass Balagan leads Montpelier’s Lantern Parade across a newly illuminated bridge in November.
Autumn on PEI
Annual fall jaunt to the north shore of Prince Edward Island and St. Andrews, New Brunswick, in the Canadian Maritimes. Clouds, wind, rain, surf, crimson blueberry fields, red rocks, red sand, very occasional sun. It […]
Back to the Adirondacks
Forked Lake, including the old telephone booth where you can make emergency calls on a landline and the row-it-yourself guideboat at the Adirondack Experience in Blue Mountain Lake. Water’s low, rocks are out, but it’s […]
August in October
August in October: 80 degrees F. on Lake Champlain in the first few days of October. Summer, but with low-angle Autumn light. Very strange, but very beautiful. Hazy on the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks […]
Spring Tour (Bethlehem, Great Allegheny, C&O Canal, etc.)
You don’t have to get out of Vermont in April, but it’s a good idea. This past April we did some touring in Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia, focusing on rail trail biking but generally […]
Altadena: Reeling and, Perhaps, Rising
I was in Los Angeles in late June-early July. Six months after the Eaton wildfire swooped out of the nearby hills, most of the roughly 6,000 burned homesites in nearby Altadena, next to Pasadena, have […]
The Flight 93 National Memorial
The Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, PA. We all know the story too well. Part of some images I’m finally collecting from a trip south to the Lower 47 to escape Mud Season back […]
Nathan Suter Middle School Track & Field Meet
The state middle school track and field championships on May 30 were renamed in honor of Nathan Suter, who died on May 13, age 52, and who was instrumental in re-establishing Montpelier’s middle and high […]
The Mighty Muddy Onion
If you’re going to have a big dirt-road bike tour called the Muddy Onion, it might as well be muddy. And it was mighty muddy for the annual Onion River Outdoors event, which followed central […]
Snows of March
The inevitable snows of March. This one arrived on March 29, about eight inches worth after most of the season’s snow had melted, as did this snow a few days later. To be expected, and […]
Vermont April 5 Hands Off! Rally
The big crowd that filled the Vermont State House lawn for the April 5 Hands Off!/50501 rally. Click here for a gallery.
Why I Like Quebec
A few of the reasons why I like Quebec City in the Winter. All from this past February. More on Instagram @lazenbyphoto.