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February 16

KID TRACKS: Wonderful winter hiking, light snow, false starts and all

There are a lot of variables to consider when hiking with kids. This is true of hiking with a dog as well. But there is one thing you can count on with both -- a bathroom break will be needed within the first dozen steps of hitting the trail. Never in all the years I've been hiking with kids, and the few occasions I've taken a dog, have I avoided a false start.

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HIKING: Adventure at AMC lodge has some comforts, too

The soft light of dawn is filtering through the cabin windows. Despite the winter chill outside, the room is cool but not cold. I should get up and stoke the woodstove, but it's no easy task when you're toasty warm beneath flannel sheets and a down comforter. Instead I lay content for a while, listening to the quiet of the place, and admiring the artifacts adorning the log walls, which have comfortably sheltered many an outdoorsperson since the late 1800s.

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SKIING: Great places to learn

It was exactly 70 years ago when Roger Page taught his first ski lessons as an instructor on a little rope-tow ski slope in Leominster, Mass.

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