Have a Great Memorial Day

Dear Friends of Cold Splinters,Starting today, we'll be taking a week off from the Internets and heading out on a tour of New England. We'll be making several stops in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, so if you live in one of those great states, hoot and holler. We'll be back next week sometime, so you all have yourselves a happy and healthy Memorial Day and I'll see you real soon.Thanks for reading.Pink Houses,JeffMP3: Dr. John - Careless Love

Off To The Whites

I'm off to White Mountain National Forest later today to freeze my ass off for the weekend. Before I go, a little info about one of, if not the, most beautiful places in New England:White Mountain National Forest was established in 1918 and has a total of 784,505 acres. Most of WMNF is in New Hampshire, but a small portion (5.6%) lies in Maine. Most of the peaks above 4,000 feet call New Hampshire their home, and as you can see from my photo above, those mountains make for some nasty weather.There are five wilderness areas within the forest: the Presidential Range/Dry River Wilderness (27,380 acres), the Great Gulf Wilderness (5,552 acres), the Sandwich Range Wilderness (25,000 acres), the Caribou/Speckled Mountain Wilderness (12,000 acres), and the Pemigewasset Wilderness (45,000 acres). Wilderness means no logging and no commercial industries. Only recreation and scientific research.Have a great one.MP3: Vic Chesnutt - Flirted With You All My Life